Logan, UT Fire Regulations: Fire Pits & Backyard Fires (2026)

Section 8.04.045 is two sentences long, and both carry hard numbers. Subsection A prohibits recreational fires, as defined by the International Fire Code and adopted by Chapter 8.04, in two air quality situations. The first is when the Utah Clearing Index for Airshed #4 is below five hundred (500). The second is when the Utah Division of Air Quality air quality index (AQI) is other than "Good" for Cache County. Any reading above Good, not only the unhealthy categories, shuts the fire pit down, so the check has to be made on the day. Cache County is named as the reference area, which ties the rule to the Cache Valley airshed rather than to a statewide reading.

Subsection B puts a weekly cap on the property: a property owner may not have or allow on their property more than two (2) recreational fires per week. The duty falls on the owner, and the words "or allow" cover fires lit by guests or tenants. The council adopted the section as Ord. 17-24 in 2017.

The section defers to the International Fire Code for what counts as a recreational fire and does not restate the definition. Logan adopted the 2012 edition of that code in section 8.04.010. Section 8.04.045 itself prints no setback distance, pit size, fuel rule or permit step, so anything of that kind comes from the adopted fire code and not from this section.

Separate Logan rules sit beside it. Section 12.04.010 makes any fire on a street or sidewalk unlawful. Section 8.04.018 lets a fire code official order restrictions on ignition sources in mountainous, brush covered or forest covered areas or the wildland urban interface area when hazardous environmental conditions call for it, and those orders are filed with the city recorder's office and published. Construction site burning is covered by section 8.04.040.