Open Burning Season for 2021

 

Burning Season Starts January 15, 2021 until May 1, 2021

 

To apply for a permit, please go to PERMITS listed in the column to the right.

IMPORTANT!!!   IF A FIRE STARTS TO BURN OUT OF YOUR CONTROL, PLEASE CALL 911.

Please review these regulations:

Burning (with a permit), between January 15th and May 1st, of the following materials is ALLOWED:

• Brush, cane, driftwood and forestry debris from other than commercial or industrial land clearing operations under the following conditions:

  • Burning must be at least 75 feet from all dwellings.
  • Burning must be carried out between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
  • No fires shall be started after 12 Noon.
  • All fires must be extingiushed by 4:00 p.m.
  • Burning must take place on land closest to the source being burned.
• Materials normally associated with the pursuit of agriculture, such as fruit tree trimmings, dead raspberry stalks, blueberry patches for pruning purposes, infected beehives for disease control.
• Tree and brush resulting from agricultural land clearing.
• Fungus-infected elmwood if no other acceptable means of disposal is available. (Disease free brush is not an acceptable starting aid.)

A FUNCTIONAL GARDEN HOSE OR WATER EXTINGUISHER IS REQUIRED AROUND ALL OPEN FIRES.

Burning of the following materials is PROHIBITED statewide:

• Brush, trees, cane and driftwood from commercial and/or institutional land clearing operations.
• Grass, hay, leaves, stumps or tires.
• Burning at landfills for refuse disposal facilities other than approved sights.
• Stacking, placing or storing combustible material such that the department may presume that it will be burned.