No-burn days · Phoenix & Maricopa County
Is today a no-burn day in Phoenix?
Wood burning is prohibited — the Maricopa County Air Quality Department's call for .
“High Pollution Advisory for 8/27/2026. Restrictions in effect.”
Forecasted for tomorrow
In the Maricopa County Air Quality Department's words: “High Pollution Advisory for 8/28/2026. Restrictions in effect.”
How the program works here
The Maricopa County Air Quality Department calls restrictions day by day for the Phoenix metro area, and wood burning is one of the things a restriction day switches off. The status above is read from the department’s own restrictions panel — the same one on its air quality page — and the words are the department’s.
On a No Burn Day or High Pollution Advisory, burning wood in a fireplace, wood stove, or outdoor fire pit is restricted county-wide. The department’s page carries the details, the exemptions, and the forecast for tomorrow.
Season: Restrictions are called year-round as air quality requires; wood-smoke No Burn Days cluster in the cooler months.
Check with the district directly
No-burn calls flip with the evening forecast — confirm with the Maricopa County Air Quality Department 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 Arizona page . And if the fire is a woodpile question, the firewood BTU chart covers what a cleaner, drier cord actually buys you.