5 rules for unincorporated Paulding County, Georgia.
Verified from official government sources
Paulding County allows small, attended recreational wood fires kept well back from structures. Propane and gas pits stay legal year-round; wood fires stop during a Georgia Forestry Commission burn ban.
Consumer fireworks have been legal statewide in Georgia since 2015, and Paulding County cannot ban them. State law sets the days and 10 AM to 11:59 PM hours; the county can only limit them through a general noise ordinance.
O.C.G.A. § 25-10-2(b)(3)(B)(i)
On any day beginning at the time of 10:00 A.M. and up to and including the ending time of 11:59 P.M.
Paulding County expects owners to keep lots clear of overgrown, combustible brush. With subdivisions pushing into the pine and hardwood around Paulding Forest WMA, defensible space is real wildfire protection here.
Paulding County is one of 54 Georgia counties under the EPD summer open-burning ban from May 1 to September 30. Outside that window, burning hand-piled natural yard debris needs a Georgia Forestry Commission permit.
Georgia EPD, Summer Open Burning Ban (Rule 391-3-1-.02(5))
The Summer Open Burn Ban runs from May 1 - September 30 and includes 54 counties in Georgia.
Paulding County has no California-style mapped fire zones, but new subdivisions ringing the 26,000-acre Paulding Forest WMA sit in a real wildland-urban interface. Defensible space and Firewise construction cut genuine risk.
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