No-burn days · Sacramento County
Is it legal to burn tonight in Sacramento?
Out of season .
How the program works here
Sacramento County’s Check Before You Burn program runs November 1 through the end of February. Each day the district declares whether burning is legal, discouraged, or prohibited in the county — the wording above is the district’s own daily call, read from the data behind the burn-status panel on its Check Before You Burn page.
The district also answers by phone at 1-877-662-8765. Off season, its feed says so itself, and that is what this page shows.
Season: November 1 through the end of February.
Check with the district directly
- the district's Check Before You Burn page
- By phone: 1-877-662-8765
No-burn calls flip with the evening forecast — confirm with the Sacramento Metropolitan 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.