Leander, TX Fire Regulations: Brush Clearance (2026)

The City of Leander does not publish a separate ordinance requiring property owners to clear brush or vegetation, but it does control how cleared brush may be disposed of by fire. Under Ordinance 13-038-00 (Article 5.05), outdoor burning, including burning brush from land clearing, is prohibited within city limits. The city's outdoor burning rules state that brush from land clearing may be burned only outside the city limits, and only when no practical alternative to burning exists, with fire department authorization and no active burn ban. Where county burning is allowed, the same procedures apply: start one hour after sunrise, keep the burn within a four-foot square, maintain at least 300 feet from sensitive receptors such as people, livestock and nursery plants, burn only at wind speeds of 6-23 mph, and extinguish one hour before sunset with water and equipment on hand. Because of significant 2011 wildfires (the Grand Mesa, Horseshoe and Moonglow fires that destroyed dozens of homes and burned hundreds of acres), Leander's Fire Department actively promotes Firewise Communities and Ready, Set, Go! defensible-space measures, encouraging residents to reduce hazardous vegetation around structures even though the published material frames this as guidance rather than a numeric clearance mandate. Williamson County's Community Wildfire Protection Plan reinforces home-ignition-zone and fuels-reduction practices regionally.