No-burn days · Denver & the Front Range
Is today a no-burn day in Denver?
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment posts each day's answer itself — by the channels below, not as a feed we could read without guessing. So this page tells you how the program works and exactly where today's call lives; it never shows a status we don't have.
How the program works here
From November 1 through March 31, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issues Action Day alerts for the Front Range, and during the winter high pollution season an Action Day triggers mandatory indoor burning restrictions across the Denver-Boulder metro area.
The state publishes the day’s alert as a written advisory, not as a machine-readable status — so this page carries no live answer. The advisory page below has today’s alert in the state’s own words, and the recorded forecast line reads it to you.
Season: The winter high pollution season runs November 1 through March 31.
Check with the district directly
- the state's air quality advisory page
- By phone: 303-758-4848
No-burn calls flip with the evening forecast — confirm with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment before you light. What you read here is not permission to burn.
The fire-season side of the question
A no-burn day is about winter air, not wildfire. The dry-season version — county burn bans and fire restrictions — lives on this site's find-your-county page and the Colorado page . And if the fire is a woodpile question, the firewood BTU chart covers what a cleaner, drier cord actually buys you.