The Air Quality Division monitors potential air quality impacts from smoke due to forest fires and issues permits to allow selected open burning activities.

• ADEQ Wildfire Support
• Fire, Smoke and Your Health Brochure
• Open Burning
• Wildland Prescribed Fires
• Winter Wood Smoke in Northern Arizona Brochure

Wildland Prescribed Fires

ADEQ's Air Quality Division implements a Smoke Management Plan that works toward a reduction in smoke impacts due to prescribed/controlled burning of nonagricultural fuels with particular regard to heavy forest fuels. All state lands, parks and forests, as well as any federally managed lands in Arizona, are under the jurisdiction of ADEQ in matters relating to air pollution from prescribed burning.

• Arizona Daily Prescribed Fire Approvals


• Smoke Management Forms
• Daily Burn Form (Word) (PDF) and Instructions
• Burn Plan Form (Word) (PDF) and Instructions
• Burn Accomplishment Form (Word) (PDF) and Instructions
• Annual Burn Registration Form (Word) (PDF)
• ADEQ Portable Particulate Network

• Arizona Fire Weather Forecasts - National Weather Service
  • Flagstaff Zone
  • Phoenix Zone
  • Tucson Zone

• Arizona Smoke Management Map

• Forest and Range Management Rules
  • Revised Rules Text
  • Official Arizona Administrative Code

• Example Smoke Dispersion Map

• Estimation Model (SASEM Model) and Instructions

• Air Quality and Wildfire Smoke

• Fires and Regional Haze
  • Arizona Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (SIP)
  • Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) Fire Emissions Joint Forum

See Also

• Incident Situation Wild Fire Report
• Southwest Coordination Center
• USDA Forest Service Air Management
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service