Prescribed Burn ‘Trinity Co Rcd’ Started in Trinity County on Oct. 20
Key Takeaway: A prescribed burn named ‘Trinity Co Rcd’ was started at 4:27 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, in Trinity County, California, the Sacramento Bee reported, citing National Interagency Fire Center data. The planned ignition is on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management; no size or crew details were given. It is a different burn from Tuesday’s ‘Garden Broadcast’ ignition.
A prescribed burn named ‘Trinity Co Rcd’ was started at 4:27 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, in Trinity County, California, the Sacramento Bee reported, citing data from the National Interagency Fire Center.
The ignition is on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, according to the Bee’s account of the federal data. No acreage or crew information was stated.
What we know
The Bee’s article, published by its CA WILDFIRE BOT on Tuesday afternoon, says the burn named ‘Trinity Co Rcd’ was started at 4:27 p.m. The item was updated at 5:07 p.m., after an original publication time of 4:48 p.m.
The burn is listed as a prescribed fire, meaning it was intentionally ignited as a planned wildfire-prevention measure. The report gives no size or crew figures.
A separate burn from ‘Garden Broadcast’
The ‘Trinity Co Rcd’ burn is a different ignition from the ‘Garden Broadcast’ prescribed burn the Bee reported earlier on Tuesday, which was started at 3:46 p.m. on private land elsewhere in Trinity County.
Shasta-Trinity National Forest posts on Facebook documented prescribed-fire test burns near Weaverville, Trinity County, on Oct. 19, the day before both ignitions; those posts do not name either burn.
✓ Verified
The Sacramento Bee published a CA WILDFIRE BOT item on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, reporting a prescribed burn named ‘Trinity Co Rcd’ in Trinity County on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, attributed to National Interagency Fire Center data (updated 5:07 p.m.; originally published 4:48 p.m.). The Bee separately reported a ‘Garden Broadcast’ prescribed burn in Trinity County on the same day, started at 3:46 p.m. on private land.
⚠ Still needs confirmation
The ‘Trinity Co Rcd’ name, the 4:27 p.m. start time and the BLM jurisdiction come from the Bee’s single-source NIFC feed and have not been independently confirmed; the USFS posts describe test burns but do not name this burn.
- Sacramento Bee: ‘New prescribed fire started in Trinity County on Oct. 20’ (Trinity Co Rcd)
- Sacramento Bee: ‘New prescribed fire started in Trinity County on Oct. 20’ (Garden Broadcast; different burn)
Editor’s note: The featured image is an illustrative file photo of California wildfire smoke over San Francisco Bay (Brocken Inaglory, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons), not the Trinity Co Rcd burn.
