On 4/18/2025, Terra Fuego Resource Foundation crews conducted a 60 acre prescribed burn for the Butte County Fire Safe Council on land owned and managed by the Paradise Unified School District. This project used fire to reduce forest undergrowth, pine needles, branches, and logs in an area that has been thinned, masticated, and chipped over the past 15 years. This was the largest burn in recent memory on the Ridge, and it was carried out within a mile of neighborhoods destroyed in the 2018 Camp Fire.
This video is part of our ongoing coverage of prescribed burning in Butte County, in Northern California. Butte County is one of the leaders in California’s emerging prescribed fire movement, and this particular project is one of the more ambitious burns to take place in the wildland urban interface (WUI) of Northern California. The project site is surrounded with homes and in the summer months, has extreme wildfire hazards.