Public Use Restrictions

Do you have a question about where you can have a campfire? Or if you can have a campfire? Get the details here.

Beginning Saturday at 12:01 a.m. public use restrictions will limit the building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, campfire or stove fire, including a charcoal fire, except at campfire rings established by the Forest Service at posted, developed and designated campgrounds.

Hot temperatures and drying conditions have prompted fire officials for the Ochoco National Forest and Crooked River National Grassland and the Prineville District Bureau of Land Management to raise the Industrial Fire Precaution Level (IFPL) from I to II next week. The Deschutes National Forest is already in IFPL II.

To reduce the number of preventable wildfires, the Prineville District Bureau of Land Management, the Deschutes National Forest and the Ochoco National Forest, and the Crooked River National Grassland, are implementing public use restrictions.