Unincorporated Washington County imposes no defensible-space or brush-clearance mandate around homes; clearing is voluntary, but disposing of cut brush by burning is regulated and banned outright during a countywide burn ban.
Washington County has no ordinance requiring homeowners to clear brush or keep a defensible-space zone around structures, even though the wooded Ozark highlands here carry real wildfire risk each fall and winter. Clearing is a recommendation from the county Fire Marshal and the Arkansas Department of Agriculture's Forestry Division, not a rule. The regulated step is disposal: burning cut brush and yard debris must follow Arkansas open-burning law and stop entirely during a declared burn ban. Overgrown parcels can still draw a county nuisance-vegetation complaint. Recorded subdivision covenants may add landscaping standards the county itself does not impose.
Burning cleared brush during a burn ban is unlawful burning under Ark. Code 5-38-310, a Class A misdemeanor; unabated nuisance vegetation can be cited and cleared by the county at the owner's cost.
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