Prescribed burn at Big Meadows called off: ‘Unfavorable’ weather conditions

Fire managers in Shenandoah National Park have called off a planned prescribed burn in Big Meadows because of “increasingly unfavorable” weather conditions.

A prescribed burn had been scheduled for Monday, but the National Weather Service has the area under a Red Flag Warning and wind advisory today, and Shenandoah National Park has implemented a parkwide fire ban that prohibits all open-air fires including any type of wood fire, charcoal fires, wood-burning camp stoves, charcoal grills, gas, and propane cooking stoves through 8 p.m. Sunday.

The reason fire managers plan prescribed burns in the first place is to reduce the potential for wildfires, so, this isn’t good either way.