Iron County, UT Fire Regulations: Brush Clearance (2026)

Chapter 8.04, Fire Prevention Regulations, gives the fire chief authority to police fire hazards on private property in the unincorporated county, subject to approval by the board of county commissioners under Section 8.04.020. Section 8.04.070 is the operative clearance-style rule: it is unlawful for any person to permit the accumulation of empty boxes, waste or other inflammable substance on any premises within the unincorporated portions of Iron County, or to carry on any business in or about any premises in a manner that endangers that property or any other building or premises to fire or explosion.

The section does not name brush or vegetation specifically, since Iron County otherwise addresses wildfire risk by adopting the International Urban Wildland Interface Code by reference in Chapter 8.24, but Section 8.04.070 reaches any combustible pile-up, including dry brush, dead vegetation, cardboard or scrap wood stacked against a structure, that creates a fire or explosion hazard. Related sections in the same chapter reinforce the hazard-reduction purpose: Section 8.04.030 lets the fire chief order an owner to correct an unsafe, fire-prone condition within five days' notice, and Section 8.04.080 separately criminalizes willfully or negligently setting fire to trees, shrubs, brush, grass or crops on land that is not one's own.

Violation of Section 8.04.070 itself is enforced as a misdemeanor under the county's general penalty, Iron County Code § 1.08.010, since Chapter 8.04 sets no fine specific to this section.