Outdoor Burning Requirements & Guidelines

REQUIREMENTS

The following information is needed when calling the 9-1-1 non-emergency number:

Name of the landowner/individual who will be conducting the burn. Landowner must authorize consent if individual is not the landowner
Burn location

When doing any outdoor burning, year around, only natural, vegetative material can be burned outdoors. This includes debris from trees, shrubs, and gardens, and grass clippings
Open burning of garbage is illegal
Open burning of the following materials are illegal

Household trash (burn barrels and/or piles) including paper products - such as cardboard boxes, etc.
Construction, building, or demolition materials (examples: lumber, flooring, roofing material, carpet, plastic, styrofoam, etc.
Wood pallets and other packaging materials
Tires or other rubber products
Asbestos-containing materials
Insulation from copper wire
Waste paints, waste oil, or solvents

Fire must be attended at all times and completely extinguished before 7 a.m.
All fires must have a ring or safety strip. The safety strip itself must be cleared of burnable material and be at least 10 feet wide, fully encompassing the debris pile. Keep a shovel and water source nearby.
No burning in barrels
No burning in streets and/or alleys
A landowner must take all practicable means to suppress any fire on his property. If a fire escapes, the individual responsible will be liable for the cost of fighting the fire and any damage the fire may have caused. Fire violation is subject to the appropriate fines, court cost, civil penalties, and/or clean-up expenses.
Be a good neighbor. Always consider the proximity to others, wind directions and other weather conditions. If open burning becomes a nuisance to any person or property and law enforcement receives a complaint, you may be instructed to extinguish the controlled burn.