2024 - Preacher Fire - TNF 2024
2024 - Preacher Fire - TNF is the 4th-largest wildfire this season in Arizona, burning 5 miles northeast of Star Valley.
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The Preacher Fire is a lightning-caused wildfire that is burning four miles northeast of Pine, Arizona. The fire is being managed under a confine and contain strategy with the goal of protecting private lands and the communities of Tonto Village, Thompson Draw, Diamond Point Summer Homes, and Diamond Point Estates while reintroducing fire into a fire dependent ecosystem. The intended result is to reduce hazardous fuels, improve watershed conditions and wildlife habitat. This will decrease accumulations of fuels and the potential for future fires to burn with high severity that may be more difficult to suppress. The fire is being managed with the West Fire by the Tonto National Forest under Incident Commander, Tadd Fagerud.
The fire is now 100% contained. After September 24, 2024, please contact the Tonto National Forest for information about the Preacher Fire.