No-burn days · Los Angeles & the South Coast basin
Is today a no-burn day in the Los Angeles area?
No curtailment called — the South Coast Air Quality Management District's call for .
How the program works here
From November through the end of February, the South Coast AQMD asks residents to check before burning wood. In the district’s own words, “A No-Burn day is a 24-hour ban on wood-burning in residential fireplaces, stoves or outdoor fire pits in the South Coast Air Basin.” The status above is read from the district’s own Check Before You Burn map.
The district’s alerts do not apply everywhere: its page exempts “mountain communities above 3,000 feet in elevation, the Coachella Valley or High Desert, homes that rely on wood as a sole source of heat, low income households and those without natural gas service,” and gas fireplaces. On an alert day, check the district’s map for your own address.
Season: No-burn alerts are issued November through February.
Check with the district directly
No-burn calls flip with the evening forecast — confirm with the South Coast Air Quality Management District 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 California page . And if the fire is a woodpile question, the firewood BTU chart covers what a cleaner, drier cord actually buys you.