Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Incident Media Videos

Zoom to your location
Reset map zoom and position

Could not determine your location.

Mosquito Fire

Unit Information

631 Coyote Street 
Nevada City, 
95959 
631 Coyote Street 
Nevada City, 
95959 

Incident Contacts

  • Local Fire Information: 211
    Email:
    2022.mosquito@firenet.gov
    Phone:
    530-264-8309
    Hours:
    8 a.m. - 8 p.m., daily

Videos Gallery

Hotshot crews conduct a defensive firing operation as one tactic employed to protect the northernmost grove of giant sequoias from the Mosquito Fire. See the full story here: tinyurl.com/yu4a4h3z

A firefighter cleans fire retardant off the roof of a Foresthill property in preparation for repopulation.

A firefighter cleans fire retardant off the roof of a Foresthill property in preparation for repopulation.

Backhauling involves transferring excess supplies & equipment from the fireline to ICP but then what? CCC crews untangle, clean, dry, and roll hose before returning it to a supply cache.

A solo bagpiper plays Amazing Grace as part of a 911 remembrance during the morning crew briefing at the Mosquito Fire Incident Command Post in Roseville, California

Video collage of fire activity and suppression response taken the afternoon into evening as a spot fire crossed American River and reached Foresthill, California

Landscape near Foresthill after the spot-fire growth had subsided Tuesday. The fire crossed American River and quickly grew northward toward Foresthill

Bullion Road in Div H, on the north side of the fire.

North side of fire (Division H) near the ghost town of Deadwood along the Western States Trail

North side of the fire (Division H) on Bullion Road.

North side of fire (Division H) near the ghost town of Deadwood along the Western States Trail