Georgia has no statewide defensible-space mandate, and Coweta County sets no residential brush-clearance requirement. Clearing woods or land by burning requires a Georgia Forestry Commission permit and is banned outright during the metro-Atlanta summer season.
Coweta County does not require homeowners to maintain a cleared defensible zone; there is no California-style vegetation-management mandate here in the wooded Piedmont. Property owners who want to burn brush, branches, or woods to clear land must obtain a burn permit from the Georgia Forestry Commission under O.C.G.A. §12-6-90 before igniting, and follow Coweta County Fire Rescue notification rules. Because Coweta is one of the 54 metro-Atlanta ozone counties, 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 provisions, and by chipping or hauling debris.
Clearing brush by burning without a Georgia Forestry Commission permit, or burning during the May–September ban, brings state and county penalties, plus liability and suppression costs if a fire escapes.
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