Clay County, FL Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

4 of the Clay County Solid Waste Franchising and Collection Ordinance (Appendix D, Article III) states flatly that the Open Burning of Garbage is prohibited within the Incorporated Area and Unincorporated Area, making it one of the few solid-waste prohibitions in the ordinance that reaches every part of the county, not just the unincorporated portion. GG as the burning of any material under conditions where the products of combustion are emitted directly into the open atmosphere, so the ban covers backyard burn barrels and open piles used to dispose of household garbage, not just large-scale dumping.

5's ban on private landfills, all enforced as part of the same solid waste article. Outdoor burning that isn't garbage disposal, such as land-clearing debris burns or bonfires, instead falls under the county's separate fire prevention code, Chapter 6, which adopts the Florida Fire Prevention Code under Chapter 69A-60, Florida Administrative Code. That code's fee schedule, Section 6-123(e)(2), sets a $100 fee for a burn permit on nonresidential property, distinct from the garbage-burning ban in the solid waste ordinance. Because the ordinance text here only prints the fee for that permit and adopts the substantive open-burning standards by reference to the state fire code, the day-to-day burn authorization rules themselves live in the state-promulgated Florida Fire Prevention Code rather than in locally printed language.