Expect haze over the skies of Flagstaff starting next week as more than a dozen prescribed burns will begin over thousands of acres of national forest.
The U.S. Forest Service will start three months of prescribed burn projects in the Coconino National Forest in early October.
More than 46,000 acres, about 71 square miles of forest, are scheduled for treatment. Some, like a burn scheduled south of Flagstaff on Oct. 2, are expected to create heavier smoke blowing north because of a lack of previous fires in the area. Others like a massive 16,000 acre burn east of Flagstaff are near where two fires ravaged the forest and destroyed homes in 2022.
The burns are scheduled to run through December.
