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Wyoming Current Fire Restrictions (2026)

Conditional: Wyoming has no statewide burn ban - restrictions are issued per land-management unit and county. BLACK HILLS NATIONAL FOREST HAS LIFTED ITS WYOMING FIRE RESTRICTIONS: in a release dated November 3, 2026 (Custer, South Dakota), the Forest announced it is rescinding the Stage 1 Fire Restrictions on National Forest System lands in the Bearlodge and Hell Canyon Ranger Districts in Wyoming (the Crook County and Weston County sides of the forest) beginning Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 12:00 a.m. That ends Forest Order BKF-200-2026, which had been set to run to December 15, 2026, and the Forest has taken its Wyoming Stage 1 alert down. The South Dakota side of the Black Hills National Forest stays under Stage 1 restrictions year-round under South Dakota law. BLM HAS LIFTED 2 SETS OF ORDERS: the High Desert District terminated its Stage 1 restrictions on September 2, 2026 across Teton, Sublette, Lincoln, Uinta, Sweetwater, Carbon, Albany, Fremont and Laramie counties, and the Wind River/Bighorn Basin District rescinded fire prevention orders BLM-WY-010-2026-01, BLM-WY-020-2026-01 and BLM-WY-050-2026-01 on September 23, 2026 across Big Horn, Hot Springs, Park, Washakie, Fremont and Natrona counties, which is the Cody, Lander and Worland field offices. The BLM year-round Wyoming order still applies on all of that land. BLM STAGE 1 ORDERS REMAIN on BLM's Wyoming fire-restrictions page for the Newcastle field office (Crook, Weston and Niobrara counties; order of May 2026) and the Buffalo field office (Johnson and Campbell counties; order of March 2026). An earlier LawLert reading also listed a Casper field office order, which that page does not list today, so confirm Casper-area BLM land directly with the Casper Field Office before you burn. Sheridan County BLM land sits under the year-round order rather than a Stage 1 order, the one county-level gap, so check locally there rather than assuming either way. Under BLM Stage 1, fires are allowed only in an agency fire grate at a developed site or a fully enclosed stove or grill; the year-round BLM order also bars fireworks, exploding targets and engines without a working spark arrestor. Restrictions are set unit by unit - confirm your exact area with the local sheriff, fire district or federal land manager before you burn.

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