How Many People Attended Burning Man 2025. For many attendees, who call themselves burners, it’s a liberating. First started in 1986 with 10 people burning an 8ft wooden effigy of a man on san francisco’s baker beach, burning man is now a massive art and music event attended by some 80,000 people every year in nevada’s black.

Burning man is happening right now, all around you. “the goal has always been to decentralize, says burning man ceo marian goodell.