Black Rock City, Nevada - Wild costumes, odd art installations, spontaneous musical acts, flaming octopuses, and lots and lots of partying – thousands of people are burning for one of the world's most famous festivals to return.

However, fans of Burning Man will have to be patient for yet another year.

Organizers announced on Tuesday that the event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert has been canceled for the second time in a row due to the pandemic.

But they ensured the countercultural arts event will come back with a bang in 2022.

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The decision came as a blow to all those who bet on the festival to resume this year, given the current speed of the vaccination rollout across the US.

Indeed, Burning Man had been busy planning a more than 60,000-person event, according to internal documents obtained by the Reno Gazette Journal, part of USA TODAY.

"Although here in the United States we may be feeling the weight lifting and the light at the end of the tunnel brightening, we are still in the pandemic, and the uncertainties that need to be resolved are impossible to resolve in the time we have," the organizers wrote in The Burning Man Journal.

The Burning Man CEO, Marian Goodell, however, said there was no reason to despair, as the organizers still plan to celebrate "Burn Week" online and offline - just not in Black Rock City.

"We’re not canceling Burning Man. We’re just not doing Black Rock City," she said Tuesday.

"You have to think of the bigger picture when you make these decisions, the long game, the survival of Black Rock City," she added. "It’s really exciting to imagine what will happen in 2022, rather than agonize over how to pull off 2021."

The 35-year-old festival, which started in San Francisco and moved to Black Rock Desert in 1990, usually attracts around 80,000 people to the desert.