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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 that gathers official links, written during the Bug and Stallion Fires and updated by hand for the Hawk Fire. It stopped being updated on August 27, 2026, so read everything below the maps as a record of what happened rather than as today's conditions. 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. This is the only way to know, and it takes a few seconds. These two maps are the only live things left on this page. They are run by the agencies, they cover whatever is burning today, and they will keep working long after the rest of this page has gone out of date.

Check my address: Washoe County, NV perimetermap.com · official Washoe County evacuation map Check my address: Lassen, Sierra & Plumas Counties, CA protect.genasys.com · official California evacuation zones
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. Anyone who needs extra time, has livestock, or has mobility needs is advised to go during a warning rather than wait for an order.

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 the incident held what it called its last scheduled press briefing on Wednesday afternoon. Reno public radio ended its live blog the same afternoon. When the people running a fire stop reporting on it daily, there is no longer a daily thing for a page like this one to carry, and continuing to write would mean inventing significance the fire no longer has. So the page stops, and stays up.

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

Final figures carried by this page. Published by the incident's own Hawk Fire Information on the evening of Wednesday, August 26, 2026. They are frozen here and will not be updated. InciWeb's page for this fire is serving no figures at all this morning, checked twice at 9:25 AM Thursday: it loads, and every field is empty. That is the third time InciWeb has failed this page in three weeks, so the current answer for this fire is Emergency Washoe and the InciWeb page if it comes back.

The evacuation map above is still live, and this page still will not tell anyone their zone. Washoe County was still downgrading zones on Wednesday and sets them address by address. Nothing here should be read as an all-clear for any address, including the absence of a place from this page. The buttons are the answer, and they stay.

Other fires are burning in this area right now, 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 on Wednesday. If you arrived here looking for a fire that started this week, this is not it. Check the map buttons above and Emergency Washoe, which covers whatever is current. This page took on the Hawk Fire because it was already here for the Bug Fire; it is not going to keep adopting new ones as it winds down.

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, per Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue. Damage assessment was still running when this page stopped and the count had already gone from 32 to 47, so treat it as the figure at the end of August rather than a final one. The county Assessor's Office is working through affected properties individually.

Nobody died. Six people were hurt on the first weekend, three civilians and three first responders, and firefighters took minor burn injuries later. That is the whole published injury record.

About 90,000 residents and 13,700 residences were inside the combined Evacuate Now and Get Set zones at the peak on Sunday, which is the largest evacuation this page has had to write about. Roughly 60,000 power customers lost service, most of it a deliberate de-energization by NV Energy on the Saturday. Nearly 60 utility poles were replaced or repaired. Power was back to 98 percent of customers by Wednesday, with the last of it expected Thursday evening.

The fire is human-caused, confirmed on the Sunday. The investigation is open, no cause has been described, and no one has been named. Nothing further should be read into that.

Command went 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 on Monday, with Jeremy Kiesling as incident commander. The work now is mop-up, patrol and suppression repair, which means putting back 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 coverage of the county's briefing said every fire-related road closure had been lifted. The county's own Wednesday update still carried its standing line that some area, road and trail closures remain, including a Forest Service area closure. Those two do not quite agree and this page is not going to pick one. NV Roads is the answer for a road, and the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony has lifted the Hungry Valley travel restrictions it put on. Reno Stead Airport reopened to general traffic on Wednesday.

There is a community meeting tonight, Thursday, August 27 at 7 PM, at O'Brien Middle School, 5000 Silver Lake Road. Fire managers and local officials are giving an update, answering questions and going through what help is available. It was announced by the incident and reported locally; it is the last dated event this page will carry.

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. There was no red flag warning or other weather alert for this zone when this was written, which is a check of the alerts feed rather than an absence in an article. Nothing on this page refreshes automatically, and after today nothing on it will change.

Shelters and animals during the Hawk Fire

Kept as a record, and every address here came from a Washoe County release rather than from news coverage. 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, and not to the Livestock Events Center, which took them during the Bug Fire but was full with an event this time.

With evacuations largely lifted, none of that is necessarily open today. Washoe County had published no closure when this page stopped, so this is the county's last word rather than confirmation that any door is open now. 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 no longer a daily thing to report. A fire in patrol and repair generates paperwork rather than news, and a page that keeps writing daily prose about it starts inventing significance it does not have. So the daily updates about these two fires stopped on August 20, and what follows in this section is a record rather than news. The Hawk Fire section above was added by hand on August 23, when a new fire nearby made this page worth updating again.

Where the fires ended up

Final figures carried by this page, from InciWeb, stamped 11:20 AM PDT, August 20, 2026. They are frozen here and 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, primarily in the Red Rock area, per 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. That is an allegation, not a conviction.

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

The only reliable answer for any specific address, for whatever is burning now and for the next one. These outlast this page.

The official record

Recovery help

This is the part of the page most likely to still be useful after it stops. 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