5 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Licking County, Ohio.
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Recreational fires and cookouts are allowed across Licking County, but the Newark Fire Department caps them at 3 feet wide by 2 feet high and keeps flames 25 feet from any building, or 15 feet in an approved container.
Newark Fire Department, Cookouts and Open Burning
Cookouts for food consumption and recreational fires should be no larger than 3-ft. wide by 2-ft. high... Your fire should not be closer than 25 ft. to any buildings. If you are burning in an approved container your fire should be no closer than 15 ft. to any structure.
Ohio's 2022 law lets adults discharge consumer fireworks on set holidays like July 3-5 and New Year's, but Licking County townships and cities such as Newark can restrict the hours or ban discharge outright, and lighting them where banned is a first-degree misdemeanor.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3743.45
(1) The first day of January; (2) Chinese new year's day; (3) The fifth day of May; (4) The last Monday in May, and the Saturday and Sunday immediately preceding that day; (5) The nineteenth day of June; (6) The third, fourth, and fifth days of July; (7) The first Friday, Saturday, and Sunday before and after the fourth day of July; (8) The first Monday of September, and the Saturday and Sunday...
Licking County has no wildfire defensible-space or brush-clearance mandate. Central Ohio's humid climate and snowy winters keep wildfire risk low, so clearing vegetation around a home is left to the owner, subject only to local nuisance and weed rules.
Burning trash, tires, or construction debris is prohibited everywhere in Licking County under Ohio EPA rules. Open burning is banned within Newark and other municipalities, and only clean-wood recreational fires and limited rural yard-waste burning are allowed.
Newark Fire Department, Cookouts and Open Burning
Burning for waste disposal purposes is prohibited. Trash, tires, construction material, etc. cannot be burned and does produce harmful emissions.
Ohio designates no regulatory wildfire hazard zones in Licking County and enforces no wildland-urban-interface building code. The region's humid climate, farmland, and snowy winters keep large wildfires rare, so no defensible-space or fire-resistant construction rules apply.
1 cities in Licking County have their own fire regulations rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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