Learning and Burning Together in the North Bay

Welcome to our community of neighbors helping neighbors to put good fire on the ground! If you are interested in getting your property in the queue for a prescribed burn, please fill out this Intake Form.

If you’d like to learn about upcoming prescribed burns; participate in one; join a pile burning, fire ecology or permitting workshops; community BBQs; and learn about all other events hosted by the Good Fire Alliance, sign up for our listserv by emailing main+subscribe@gfa.groups.io – or bookmark this page.

Check out pictures from recent burns and links to local resources below. If you have any questions, email us directly at goodfirealliance@gmail.com.


Good Fire Alliance

 Local Resources

  • Intake form for prescribed burns in the North Bay

  • Prescribed burn guide for Sonoma County

  • Tips for Building Burn Piles for Sonoma County (including links for required permits, and phone numbers to call)

  • Quemando Pilas en Sonoma (Building Burn Piles in Sonoma in Spanish)

  • Contractors to assist with thinning, pile burning, broadcast burning prep, invasive species, post-fire restoration

  • Training Opportunities:

    • Fire Forward offers a variety of trainings, from volunteers looking to assist with burns to people pursuing careers as fire practitioners.

    • Pepperwood Preserve offers frequent pile burning workshops.

    • LandPaths organizes unique community “patch burns” — smaller, low-severity burns that are open to everyone, from children to elders.  

  • Good Fire Alliance Instagram page

Articles, Webinars, Books on Beneficial Fire 

If you are new to prescribed fire:

If you have been working with beneficial fires for a while:

Good Fire Alliance Steering Committee

From left to right: Jennifer Stanfield, Preston Duncan, Brian Peterson, Kristina Rizga, Monica Delmartini, Anne Crealock. Committee members not in the photo: Joe Plaugher, Jiordi Rosales, Darrell Brooker. Image by Erika Lutz

Three new steering committee members are elected every year in March. Sign up for our list-serv above to receive the application next year if you are interested in applying!

A special thanks to Patti Aaron (Sonoma Resources Conservation District) for providing support to the steering committee volunteers.