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**UPDATED 10/22** Lower Sugarloaf Fire Closure on the Entiat District
This closure is enacted to reduce the potential for members of the public to be endangered or harmed by the post-fire hazards, as well as to allow for remaining suppression repair and rehabilitation work.
As closures are reduced, it's important for visitors to recently burned areas to stay alert to post-fire hazards:
- LOOK UP for upslope burned areas, snags, and exposed rocks that may fall.
- LOOK DOWN for debris from falling rocks, erosion – especially at road and trail edges, and ash pits (which may form from root pockets or stumps of burned trees).
- LOOK AROUND. Be situationally aware. Check the weather before you travel, including at higher elevations. Wind, rain, ice and snow can increase the risk of tree fall, rock fall, slides and other hazards. Flash floods and landslide risks are elevated below severely burned areas.
- LOOK BELOW the surface of standing water and moving water for floating logs, submerged trees and other debris, which can strike or entangle swimmers and boaters and damage other infrastructure.
Alert Start Date: October 22, 2025
Alert End Date: April 30, 2026
Order Number: 06-17-05-25-40
Associated Documents
Forest Order
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
Entiat, WA
Lower Sugarloaf Fire Closure
Closure Order: 06-17-05-25-40
Pursuant to 16 USC § 551 and 36 CFR § 261.50(b), and to provide for public safety, the following acts are prohibited within the Entiat Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. This Order supersedes Order #06-17-07-25-31, dated September 6, 2025, signed by Forest Supervisor Tara Umphries. This Order is effective October 22, 2025, through April 30, 2026, unless rescinded sooner.
PROHIBITIONS:
1. Being on a National Forest System Road as described below and displayed on the attached map, Exhibit A [36 CFR § 261.54 (b)].
CLOSURE AREA DESCRIPTION:
This order prohibits all use on the following National Forest System roads:
Roads Closed
FSR 5800 (TILLICUM)
FSR 5808
FSR 5808-210
FSR 5808-310
FSR 5808-410
FSR 5808-510
FSR 5270
FSR 5270-113
See Exhibit A for closure map.
EXEMPTIONS:
Pursuant to 36 CFR § 261.50(e), the following persons are exempt from this Order:
1. Any Federal, State, or local officer, or member of an organized rescue or fire-fighting force in the performance of an official duty.
2. Persons with Forest Service Permit No. FS-7700-48 (Permit for Use of Roads, Trails, or Areas Restricted by Regulation Order), specifically authorizing the otherwise prohibited act or omission.
These prohibitions are in addition to the general prohibitions in 36 CFR Part 261, Subpart A.
Violations of these prohibitions are punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000 for an individual
or $10,000 for an organization, or imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or both (16 USC §
551; 18 USC §§ 3551, 3559, 3571, and 3581).
Executed in Wenatchee, Washington this 22nd day of October 2025.
Contact Name:
Okanogan-Wenatchee National ForestContact Number:
(509) 664-9200Maps
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