You can build a campfire again on BLM ground in nine Wyoming counties. In the rest of the state, six other Stage 1 orders were still posted when we checked on September 4, 2026, so “Wyoming lifted its fire restrictions” is wrong for most of Wyoming.
Here is what actually happened. On September 2, 2026, the BLM’s High Desert District terminated Fire Prevention Order BLM-WY-D00000-2026-01. The announcement names the counties: Teton, Sublette, Lincoln, Uinta, Sweetwater, Carbon, Albany, Fremont and Laramie. The termination took effect the same day.
What did not lift
BLM Wyoming publishes an index of its current orders, and on September 4 it still listed six Stage 1 fire prevention orders in the other two districts:
- High Plains District: Newcastle Field Office (May 2026, Crook, Weston and Niobrara counties), Buffalo Field Office (March 2026, Johnson and Campbell counties), and Casper Field Office (March 2026), which the page does not narrow to named counties.
- Wind River Bighorn Basin District: Cody, Lander and Worland field offices, all dated June 2026.
Stage 1 on BLM land generally means no campfire outside an agency-installed ring in a developed site. Do not take that from us. The order is a signed document with its own prohibitions, and the field office is the one that wrote it.
The statewide layer also stays. The BLM’s announcement says its Wyoming year-round fire prevention order remains in effect, and describes it as prohibiting activities that can cause wildfires, including fireworks and exploding targets, and requiring precautions when using equipment that can throw sparks. That applies whether or not a Stage 1 order sits on top of it.
The Fremont County problem
Fremont County is named in the High Desert order that just lifted. The Lander Field Office, whose Stage 1 order is still listed, sits in Fremont County. From these two pages alone we could not tell which order governs a given piece of BLM ground there, and we are not going to guess for you. If you are camping in the Lander or Dubois area this month, call the Lander Field Office before you plan on a fire.
That is the honest answer, and it is the general one too. District boundaries and county boundaries are not the same shape, and a restriction map drawn by county will always have seams.
What to do this week
Find the district your site is in, not the state. Open BLM Wyoming’s fire restrictions index, read the order that covers it, and check the date on the order rather than the date on a news story. Then look at the sign at the road junction and the sign at the site. A posted order and a ranger’s current instruction beat any website, including this one.
Wyoming’s BLM ground is one of the better places in the West to camp free in September, once you know which half of the state you are standing in. Our Wyoming free camping page covers the land types, and our fire restrictions guide covers what each stage generally prohibits and why the stage number alone never answers the question.