5 rules for unincorporated Coconino County, Arizona.
Verified from official government sources
Recreational fires are allowed in unincorporated Coconino County only when no fire restrictions are in effect, but summer Stage 1 and Stage 2 restrictions routinely ban open flame across this high-country forest. Gas and propane pits usually stay legal.
Only ground-based "permissible consumer fireworks" are legal anywhere in Arizona (ARS §36-1606); aerial fireworks are illegal statewide. In forested Coconino County, Flagstaff bans fireworks citywide, county fire restrictions prohibit them, and national forest land is off-limits year-round.
ARS §36-1601 (Definition of permissible consumer fireworks)
Anything that is designed or intended to rise into the air and explode or to detonate in the air or to fly above the ground
Coconino County sits in high wildfire country and requires defensible space in its wildland-urban interface. Owners follow Firewise clearance — a lean, clean zone at the home extending outward roughly 30 to 100 feet — plus county WUI code standards.
Open burning in Coconino County requires a permit from Arizona DFFM or the local fire district and must meet ADEQ air rules. Permits are routinely suspended during the long summer fire season; slash and pile burning happens in the wetter, cooler months.
Much of Coconino County lies in a mapped wildland-urban interface. New construction in WUI areas must meet ignition-resistant building and defensible-space standards, and recent fires — Schultz, Museum, Pipeline, Tunnel — brought catastrophic post-fire flooding downhill.
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