Wildfires are increasing in severity and areal extent across the western United States, which can alter carbon and nutrient budgets of aquatic ecosystems in burned watersheds. Given the potential impacts that wildfires have on physical and chemical properties in watersheds, it is crucial to assess how wildfires affect elemental loading and biological processes in lakes. We monitored five lakes (three in Idaho and two in Montana) that experienced recent wildfires in their watersheds (burned lakes) and compared them with five unburned reference lakes. Burned lakes had higher levels of total phosphorus (TP), total dissolved phosphorus (TDP), total dissolved nitrogen (TDN), total nitrogen (TN), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and total organic carbon (TOC) when compared to the reference lakes. Across all ten lakes sampled in 2024-2025, burned lakes had 47 percent higher total suspended solids (TSS) than reference lakes with peak concentrations in July. Of the five lakes in Idaho, three of the lakes had prior baseline data, which also showed relative increases in nutrient concentrations (TDP, TDN, TN, and in some cases soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP) and TP) in 2025. Our results of increased mass loading of nutrients and carbon in burned lakes over time and with respect to reference lakes are consistent with previous research. Strong negative excursions in dissolved oxygen in burned lakes also indicate enhanced ecosystem respiration.