A thunderstorm with gusts up to 50 miles per hour is approaching Black Rock City and threatens to worsen conditions. Prior severe winds closed the front gate, forced turnarounds at Wadsworth, and damaged camps during setup. Center Camp and the ice sales camp Arctica have closed, and officials predict another storm likely around 5 p.m. Gates remain open but face eight-hour wait times from the paved roads, with a strong chance of another closure. Drivers are being urged to stay in Reno because passage past Wadsworth may be restricted. Clouds forming to the south raise further storm concerns.
You may have seen the news that Burning Man 2025 got off to a pretty stormy start over this weekend, with the front gate being closed Saturday night over the weather, drivers being turned away in nearby Wadsworth, Nevada, and camps being ripped apart by 50 mile-per-hour winds that below their gear away as they were setting up. The Nevada Bureau of Land Management had a little fun with their warning announcements in a Sunday afternoon Facebook post.
Officials are predicting another storm the likes of the one that shut things down on Sunday, likely to hit around 5 pm. According to Burning Man Information Radio, as of press time for this post, Center Camp is closed until further notice, the ice sales camp Arctica has also closed for the day, and an approaching thunderstorm is expected to produce wind gusts that once again hit 50 miles per hour.
The Burning Man gates are currently open, though you're looking at a wait line of eight hours after you pull off the paved roads. And there is a very strong likelihood that gate gets closed again within hours, and that drivers will once again be urged to stay in Reno Monday night because they won't be allowed past Wadsworth. The current travel time from Gravel to Gate is 8 hours.
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