The National Park Service (NPS) mission is to protect and preserve the lands it manages for the enjoyment of future generations. Guided by this mandate, the fire management program focuses on restoring and maintaining natural processes associated with fire, while protecting human life and property. To help in achieving these long-term goals, the NPS has a comprehensive fire management program including hazardous fuels reduction, prescribed fire, wildland fire for resource benefit, and wildland fire suppression. The following policies guide the Zion National Park in their fire management activities. Zion Fire Management Plan and Environmental Assessment 2004 (PDF) Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for Fire Management Plan The FMP will continue to allow Zion to counter the effects caused by past fire exclusion, and perpetuate fire in fire-dependent ecosystems while protecting life, property and park resources from unwanted fire. The FMP will expand opportunities for using fire to meet resource objectives under a multi-year treatment schedule, and improve fuel reduction treatments to enhance defensibility around developments, private lands and other resources at risk. The FMP will improve the management of fire on an ecosystem level by further integrating park lands with adjacent areas, and incorporating the plans, resources and risks associated with other jurisdictions at the private, county, State, regional and federal levels. The Zion FMP incorporates all relevant decisions from the Zion General Management Plan (2001) and the federal wildland fire policy document listed below. NPS Reference Manual 18 - Wildland Fire Management 2014 (PDF) Current Conditions
Find typical and current weather conditions in Zion, as well as the flow rate of the Virgin River and the flash flood potential forecast. |
Last updated: May 15, 2023