Fire pit rules in Hernando County, FL — also called outdoor burning, recreational fire, or open flame ordinances — cover fuel types, clearances, and when burning is allowed.
Hernando County lets residents burn a small recreational campfire or cooking fire without a permit, using clean dry wood kept well back from structures. Gas pits are generally always fine, and a drought burn ban overrides everything.
Hernando County Fire Rescue allows small recreational campfires and outdoor cooking fires without Florida Forest Service authorization, kept attended with water or an extinguisher and set back from structures, fences, and the pine flatwoods that ring Spring Hill and Weeki Wachee. Burn only clean, dry wood; no trash, treated lumber, or piled yard debris in a recreational fire. Gas and propane fire pits are not open burning and stay usable during most bans. When drought pushes the Keetch-Byram Drought Index up, the county and Florida Forest Service impose burn bans that suspend open recreational fires until conditions ease.
An escaped fire leaves you liable for property damage and the cost of suppression, and lighting an open fire during a county or state burn ban draws fire-code enforcement.
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