BurnDates

Find your county

Am I in a burn ban?

It depends on exactly where you're standing — burn bans are declared county by county, and fire restrictions on public land are set forest by forest. Pick your state below, then your county, and you'll have the answer or the number to call for it.

Pick your state

In Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas we watch the statewide lists around the clock, so those county pages show a live status with the time we checked it. Everywhere else, no single list exists for anyone to watch — those pages tell you who declares a ban where you live and where today's answer is posted.

Why there's no one-word answer

Three sets of rules can cover the same address. Your county declares burn bans for private land — the brush pile and the burn barrel. Your city or fire district can be stricter than the county. And the moment you cross onto national forest or other federal land, the county's rules stop and the forest's own fire restrictions take over — a different order, signed by a different office, changing on a different schedule.

The words change with the map, too: the South and Midwest say burn ban, the West and the Forest Service say fire restrictions and count them in stages. Same idea — how much fire is allowed today — different vocabulary.

Rules change fast in dry weather — whatever a page told you, confirm with your county fire marshal or burn line before you light.