“Already, everywhere from Reno up to the Burning Man area, Black Rock, we’ve already exceeded that – and it’s only three days into the month,” he added. More than 13mm (0.5 inches) of rain fell at the festival site on Friday, disrupting the celebration.įor the Reno area, the average rainfall for the whole month of September would be 5.4mm (0.21 inches), said Mark Deutschendorf, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in the city. During the festival, participants often refer to the area as the “playa” - though this year, it has been rebaptised “wet playa”. Its location is far from big cities and about 227km (141 miles) north of Reno. The festival is held in Black Rock City, a temporary community created in the middle of the Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada. Where is the Burning Man festival happening? However, the news channel CNBC estimated the experience could set festival-goers back as much as $1,500, if lodging, travel, food and costumes were factored in. This year, it was scheduled to run from August 27 until September 4, and a regular ticket cost $575. Some festival-goers decided to sit it out at the muddy site with the Burning Man’s effigy due to go up in flames on Monday night ĭuring the event, “burners” typically arrive in groups and set up themed “camps”, ready to contribute to the festival’s “gift economy” by providing goods or services without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

The festival gets its name from its culminating event, the burning of a large wooden structure called “the Man” on the penultimate night. It aims to be an undefinable event, somewhere between a celebration of counterculture and a spiritual retreat. Here is what to know: What is Burning Man?īurning Man is a festival described as “a global ecosystem of artists, makers, and community organisers who co-create art, events, and local initiatives around the world”. Many of the 64,000 people who remained on site are expected to stay for the festival’s namesake effigy to go up in flames, an event slated for Monday night at 9pm (04:00 GMT Tuesday) - one day past schedule. “Exodus operations have officially begun in Black Rock City,” the festival’s website announced on Monday afternoon.

An unusual late-summer storm has turned a weeklong, counterculture festival in the western United States into a sloppy mess.Ībout 70,000 Burning Man partygoers got stuck in deep mud in the northern Nevada desert amid dwindling water and food supplies.īut Burning Man organisers reopened the road leading out of the remote Nevada desert festival on Monday, allowing tens of thousands of people to escape the rain-drenched festival site.

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