Solano Prescribed Burn Association
Upcoming Firelighter Training with Napa, Solano, and Yolo PBAs
The Napa, Solano, and Yolo Prescribed Burn Associations are hosting a prescribed fire introductory training series that will prepare attendees to safely and effectively participate in prescribed fires.
Topics covered in the training series include local fuel types, burn windows, burn plans, fireline safety, prescribed fire operations, weather, and radio communications.
The series includes two pre-recorded sessions, one mandatory interactive information session, and ONE in-person field day. Three field days are offered, one in each county, and participants can register for any date regardless of county affiliation:
- Interactive Informational Session (mandatory): Thursday, August 27, 5:30 to 6:30 pm
- Solano County Field Day: Saturday, August 29, 2026 in Green Valley, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
- Napa County Field Day: Saturday, September 12, 2026 near the City of Napa, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
- Yolo County Field Day: Saturday, September 26, 2026 in western Yolo County, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm
REGISTER HERE For questions, contact Elizabeth Davis (Solano PBA coordinator),
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Prescribed Burn Associations (PBAs) are community-based networks that help landowners and land managers safely return “good fire” to the land. Good fire—including prescribed and cultural burning—is the intentional, controlled use of fire to meet goals like reducing wildfire risk, controlling invasive species, improving forage, restoring ecosystems, and supporting cultural practices.
Unlike destructive wildfires, prescribed burns are carefully planned and conducted under specific conditions to ensure safety and effectiveness.
Prescribed Burn Associations can take a variety of forms but are always a way for community members to come together and share skills, experience, knowledge, equipment, and other resources to conduct ecologically minded and safe prescribed burning.
PBAs commonly support the following activities:
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Determining if/when a burn should be completed
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Planning, permitting, and communication
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Providing resources, information, training, equipment, logistical support, and personnel
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Expanding community support for prescribed burning
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Building a culture of safe and effective use of prescribed fire
Additional Resources
Prescribed Fire – CAL FIRE
Good Fire – Current Barriers to the Expansion of Cultural Burning and Prescribed Fire in California and Recommended Solutions – Karuk Tribe Climate Change Project
Prescribed Fire Benefits – University of California Cooperative Extension
Prescribed Fire: Benefits for people and the land – US Forest Service
Prescribed Burning – California Air Resources Board
Can Prescribed Fires Mitigate Health Harm? – American Lung Association
Planning a Prescribed Burn – California PBA website
How the Indigenous practice of ‘good fire’ can help our forests thrive – Information on the differences between prescribed fire and cultural fire
Prescribed Fire Gains Momentum – UCANR
Prescribed Burn Associations – California Cattlemen’s Association
What is a Prescribed Burn Association – University of California Cooperative Extension Sonoma
Find a PBA on the CAL PBA website – We hope Solano will be reflected on this map soon!
Working with Prescribed Burn Associations – Tori Norville, University of California Cooperative Extension
Burn Pile Guide (Solano PBA, 2024) - Tips for Building and Extinguishing a Burn Pile
Options for Prescribed Fire on Private Lands in California, Jeffrey Stackhouse & Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Grasslands 2019
CAL FIRE Burn Permit Responsibility Area Viewer – Use this link to identify your Air Quality Management District and which fire responsibility area you are in.
Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) Open Burn Information
Yolo Solano Air Quality Management District (YSAQMD) Open Burning
Permits and Regulations – UCANR
Prescribed Fire Information Reporting System (PFIRS)
Open Burn Fact Sheet – BAAQMD
Prescribed Fire Liability in CA – Lenya Quinn-Davidson & Jeffrey Stackhouse, UC Cooperative Extension, 2020
Governor Newson Signs CCA-Sponsored SB 332 - Katie Roberti, California Cattlemen’s Association
SB 332 – the California legislation that changed California from a strict liability state to simple negligence state
SB 926: Prescribed Fire Claims Fund – California legislation that created a 20 million dollar prescribed fire damages fund
SB 926’s passage closes insurance gap to get good fire on the ground – The Nature Conservancy
