Hawk Fire Forces 90,000 to Evacuate Near Reno as Blaze Spreads Rapidly

Six people injured including three first responders; approximately 90,000 residents evacuated with homes destroyed and critical infrastructure impacted.

In the high desert foothills above Reno, a fire born of wind and drought has reminded nearly 90,000 people how quickly the land can reclaim what human settlement has built upon it. The Hawk Fire, ignited Saturday in the Sierra foothills and spreading with zero containment by Sunday, has consumed more than 13,000 acres of the Humboldt–Toiyabe National Forest and pressed against the edges of a city of 280,000. In moments like these, the fragility of infrastructure — power, roads, institutions — becomes visible all at once, and the question of how communities endure becomes not abstract but immed

Hawk Fire Forces 90,000 to Evacuate Near Reno as Blaze Spreads Rapidly

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