Georgia sets no statewide defensible-space mandate, and Columbia County requires no residential brush clearance. Burning brush or woods to clear land needs a Georgia Forestry Commission permit and is banned outright each summer.
Columbia County does not require homeowners to maintain a cleared defensible zone; there is no California-style vegetation mandate in the Georgia Piedmont and Sandhills. A property owner who wants to burn brush, branches, or woods to clear land must first obtain a burn permit from the Georgia Forestry Commission under O.C.G.A. §12-6-90 and follow the county Fire Marshal's rules. Because Columbia County falls under the Georgia EPD summer open-burning ban, all land-clearing and yard-debris burning is prohibited from May 1 through September 30. Overgrown lots are handled instead under the county's property-maintenance and nuisance code, or by chipping and hauling debris.
Clearing brush by burning without a Georgia Forestry Commission permit, or burning during the summer ban, brings state and county penalties, plus liability and suppression costs if a fire escapes onto neighboring land.
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