Bull Fire North of Verdi: Evacuation Zones Still Up in Washoe County

What officials are saying

Truckee Meadows Fire and Rescue and interagency crews are on the Bull Fire. Public updates put the fire at about 1,529 acres and about 40 percent contained as of Oct. 4, 2026.

The goal crews have stated is to keep the fire north of Verdi, Somersett, and Mogul. Those are community names in Washoe County. This page does not print a street address.

The fire has also been tracked along the line with Sierra County, California. The evacuation orders in this brief are the Washoe County orders. If you are on the California side, check Sierra County emergency notices too. Do not assume a Nevada zone line is the same on the other side of the state line.

Evacuation zones

Washoe County still has an evacuation order, the Go Now level, and evacuation warnings at the Get Set and Get Ready level. The county does not publish one fixed street list, because the zones can change.

Use the Perimeter Evacuation Map linked from Washoe County emergency management at https://www.emergencywashoe.com/fire/. If your zone is red, leave. If your zone is the warning color, get your go-bag ready and leave if it turns red.

Do not wait for a social media rumor to tell you the fire is out. A containment percent is not an all-clear.

What to do

If you are in a Go Now zone, leave now. Take the route the map or law enforcement gives you. Do not drive toward the smoke to look.

If you are in a Get Ready or Get Set zone, pack medicines, water, phone chargers, and papers. Know how you would leave Verdi, Somersett, or Mogul if the zone changes.

Stay off closed roads. Let fire engines through. Call 911 if you are trapped or if you see a new start and you can report it safely.

This page will not tell you that a specific home is safe. Only the live county map can do that, and it can change the same hour.

Source

Washoe County emergency updates: https://www.emergencywashoe.com/fire/. The county page is the place for the Perimeter Evacuation Map.

Acreage and containment used here, about 1,529 acres and about 40 percent, match interagency and local public updates checked on Oct. 4, 2026, including reporting that the fire is human-caused and that crews are holding it north of Verdi, Somersett, and Mogul. Numbers move. Recheck before you travel.

County hubs: https://noticenearby.com/nv/washoe and https://noticenearby.com/ca/sierra. Notice Nearby is not the fire department and not the sheriff.

Notes and sources

1. Sources checked Oct. 4, 2026: Washoe County Emergency Management (emergencywashoe.com) and public interagency figures of about 1,529 acres and about 40 percent containment. If the live map and this page disagree, the map wins.
2. No street address is printed. Community names only: Verdi, Somersett, and Mogul, in Washoe County, Nevada. Sierra County, California, is noted because the fire has been tracked on that side of the line. Evacuation orders quoted here are Washoe County’s.
3. Suggested shelf note for editors: this is a live fire as of Sunday, Oct. 4. A pin, if one is added by the hub team, can be reviewed for rescind at 6:00 p.m. PT Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, unless the county extends orders.
4. Author: Ryan Standley / Record of Sale, LLC / Notice Nearby.
5. Not legal advice. Not a newspaper. Not Legal Publication. Record of Sale, LLC (Oregon).