Titusville, FL Fire Regulations: Fire Pits & Backyard Fires (2026)

Section 9-6(a) opens with a flat prohibition: no person may kindle or maintain a bonfire or rubbish fire, or authorize one to be kindled or maintained, on private land in the city. The section then carves out one narrow exception: small bonfires held for social activities, such as cookouts, pep rallies, and scout-organization events, may go forward if the person first secures the permission of the fire chief. That permission requirement means there is no self-certifying backyard fire pit right in Titusville; approval has to come from the fire chief before the fire is lit.

The same subsection separately and absolutely bars fires for burning trash or underbrush connected with land clearing, a prohibition that is not softened by chief approval the way social bonfires are; land-clearing burns instead have to go through the special large-scale burn permit process in § 9-6(b). Chapter 9 sits under the city's adoption of the Florida Fire Prevention Code, including NFPA 1 and NFPA 101 Life Safety Code, at § 9-1, so the bonfire rule operates alongside that broader fire-safety framework rather than displacing it.

Section 9-2 makes the chief of the department of fire rescue the enforcing official for the whole chapter, and § 9-4 treats any permit application as implied consent for the fire chief to inspect the property at reasonable times. Section 9-6 was last amended by Ord. No. 33-2021, § 4, adopted November 23, 2021, which added the fee schedule now found in § 9-6(c); the underlying chapter dates to Ord. No. 27-2009, § 2, adopted July 28, 2009.