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Bug and Hawk Fire Information

Washoe County, Nevada · Lassen & Sierra Counties, California

This is not an official government website. It is an independent page of official links, written during the Bug and Stallion Fires and updated by hand through the Hawk Fire. Updates stopped on August 27, 2026. Everything below the maps describes what happened and may no longer be true. For anything that affects a decision, including evacuation status, use the official maps and sources linked here, or call 9-1-1.

Am I in an evacuation zone?

Enter your address. It takes a few seconds, and there is no other way to know. These two maps are the only things on this page that are still live. The agencies run them, they cover whatever is burning today, and they will keep working after the rest of this page is out of date.

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What the two designations mean

Evacuation ORDER (GO): the county is directing that zone to leave immediately, without waiting to pack.

Evacuation WARNING: the county is telling that zone to be ready to leave at a moment's notice. The county advises anyone who needs extra time, has livestock, or has mobility needs to leave during the warning.

Washoe County publishes no written list of zones, because they are set address by address and can change hourly. Absence from any list, here or elsewhere, is not an all-clear. Washoe 311 is 775-328-3000 from outside the area, staffed 8 AM to 5 PM. The Hawk Fire incident information line was 775-224-6988, 8 AM to 8 PM, and it will be stood down with the incident team.

The Hawk Fire, and why this page stops here

This is the last update to this page. The Hawk Fire is 93 percent contained, crews are being released to other fires, and on Wednesday afternoon the incident held what it called its last scheduled press briefing. Reno public radio ended its live blog the same day. Once the people running a fire stop reporting on it every day, there is nothing new to write up, so the updates stop here. The page stays online.

  • 15,085Acres
  • 93%Contained
  • ~570Personnel

Final figures on this page, as published by the incident's Hawk Fire Information on the evening of Wednesday, August 26, 2026. They will not be updated. InciWeb's page for this fire was showing no figures on Thursday morning, checked twice at 9:25 AM: the page loads with every field empty. For current numbers, try Emergency Washoe first, then the InciWeb page.

The evacuation map above is still live, and it is the only place to check a zone. Washoe County was still downgrading zones on Wednesday, and it sets them address by address. Nothing on this page is an all-clear for any address, and neither is a place going unmentioned here.

Other fires are burning in this area, and this page does not cover them. Dry lightning started about twenty fires in northwest Nevada on Tuesday, and one of them north of Reno was over 9,500 acres by Wednesday. If you came here looking for a fire that started this week, this is not it. Use the map buttons above and Emergency Washoe, which covers whatever is current. The Hawk Fire was added because the page was already up for the Bug Fire. No more fires will be added.

What the Hawk Fire did

It started around midday on Saturday, August 22, off Hawk Meadow Trail about a mile north of Cold Creek Trail in the Somersett area, five miles northwest of Reno near Verdi. On its first day it moved roughly four miles in three hours and six miles in all, running northeast toward Stead and Lemmon Valley. It reached 15,085 acres and stopped growing on Sunday. Governor Lombardo declared a state of emergency for Washoe County on Saturday night, and it crossed into Sierra County, California at its western edge.

Forty-seven homes were destroyed and eight more damaged, along with one commercial building, according to Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue. Damage assessment was still under way when this page stopped, and the count had already risen from 32 to 47, so the final number will probably be higher. The county Assessor's Office is going through the affected properties one by one.

Nobody died. Six people were hurt on the first weekend, three civilians and three first responders, and some firefighters had minor burns later in the week. No other injuries have been reported.

About 90,000 residents and 13,700 residences were inside the combined Evacuate Now and Get Set zones at the peak on Sunday, far more than the Bug Fire at its worst. Roughly 60,000 power customers lost service, most of them because NV Energy shut off power on purpose on Saturday. Nearly 60 utility poles were replaced or repaired. Power was back for 98 percent of customers by Wednesday, and the rest was expected Thursday evening.

The fire was human-caused, which officials confirmed on Sunday. The investigation is still open. No specific cause has been described and no one has been named.

Command passed on Monday from a Type 3 unified command of the Forest Service, Reno Fire and Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District to Great Basin Complex Incident Management Team 6, with Jeremy Kiesling as incident commander. The work now is mop-up, patrol and suppression repair, meaning crews are restoring the ground that was torn up to stop the fire.

Road closures came off through the week. U.S. 395 reopened in both directions at 4 PM Monday, and by Wednesday morning news coverage of the county's briefing said every fire-related road closure had been lifted. The county's own Wednesday update still said that some area, road and trail closures remained, including a Forest Service area closure. Those two don't quite agree. For any particular road, check NV Roads. The Reno-Sparks Indian Colony has lifted its Hungry Valley travel restrictions, and Reno Stead Airport reopened to general traffic on Wednesday.

A community meeting was scheduled for Thursday, August 27 at 7 PM at O'Brien Middle School, 5000 Silver Lake Road, announced by the incident and reported locally. Fire managers and local officials were to give an update, take questions and go through what help is available. It is the last dated event on this page.

Written at 10:00 AM PDT, Thursday, August 27, 2026, from Washoe County's own releases at EmergencyWashoe.com, the incident's Hawk Fire Information, KOLO, News 4, KUNR and the National Weather Service. The Weather Service had no red flag warning or other alert out for this zone at that time. Nothing on this page refreshes automatically. Wording was tidied on September 1, 2026, with no change to the facts.

Shelters and animals during the Hawk Fire

Kept as a record. Every address here comes from a Washoe County release. The evacuation center was the Reno-Sparks Convention Center, Hall 4, 4590 S. Virginia Street, entering by door 20F on the Kietzke side, with the Red Cross providing shelter and meals. More than 450 people stayed there on the first Saturday night. Small animals went to Washoe County Regional Animal Services, 2825 Longley Lane. Large animals went to the Ironwood Event Center, 5600 Whiskey Springs Road. The Livestock Events Center, which took them during the Bug Fire, had an event booked this time.

With evacuations mostly lifted, none of that is necessarily open today. Washoe County had not announced any closures as of August 27, and nothing here has been checked since. The county posts changes at Emergency Washoe, and Washoe 311 is 775-328-3000.

The Bug and Stallion Fires: why the daily updates stopped

Southwest Area Incident Management Team 1 handed the Bug and Stallion Fires back on Wednesday, August 19. Command passed to a small Type 3 organization drawn from the team's own members, and the first update under it, on August 20, is titled “Repair and Recovery Begin on the Bug and Stallion Fires.” Crews were patrolling, watching for smoke and repairing ground that was torn up fighting the fire. Combined personnel was 307, down from 568 two days earlier and falling. By August 26 the two fires together were reported at 97 percent contained.

Evacuations came off on August 16 and none were reinstated. Every fire-related road closure for the Bug Fire was lifted, though some road, trail and area closures remained around the Stallion Fire as of the August 20 update.

With the team gone there was not much left to report each day. A fire in patrol and repair mostly generates paperwork. So the daily updates on these two fires stopped on August 20, and the rest of this section is a record of where things stood. The Hawk Fire section above was added on August 23, when a new fire nearby made the page worth updating again.

Where the fires ended up

Final figures on this page, from InciWeb at 11:20 AM PDT, August 20, 2026. They no longer refresh. Neither fire had grown since August 16. The current figures stay on the InciWeb incident page.

What these fires cost

One person died. Shari Floyd, 78, died at UC Davis Medical Center on Saturday, August 15, of burn injuries and smoke inhalation. She and her husband, Eddie Floyd, were caught at their home at Wynema Ranch in Lassen County on August 12, when a thunderstorm turned the wind. Her family announced her death. Eddie Floyd was in critical condition when the family last reported, and no update has been published since.

Nine homes were destroyed, mostly in the Red Rock area, according to Truckee Meadows Fire & Rescue on August 13. Around 13,000 people were under evacuation orders at the peak. Power was cut to about 1,800 customers and restored to all of them by August 14. Nine schools closed for a day and went back on August 17.

The Bug Fire started August 8 and the Stallion Fire August 10. Both are listed as human-caused. A woman was arrested accused of starting the Fred Mountain Fire, which later merged into the Bug Fire. Nothing has been proven in court.

Written at 1:30 PM PDT, August 20, 2026, from the incident team's August 19 and August 20 media releases, the InciWeb incident page, and the reporting cited above. Nothing on this page refreshes automatically any more.

Checking an address, and getting alerts

These are the only reliable answers for a specific address, for whatever is burning now and for the next fire. They will outlast this page.

The official record

Recovery help

This is the part of the page most likely to stay useful. Most of it was set up during the Bug and Stallion Fires, and the same agencies and programs serve anyone burned out by the Hawk Fire. The replacement food benefit covers power outages as well as fire, which matters when about 60,000 customers lost service.

Roads, power, smoke and animals