Outdoor burning rules in Columbia County, GA — also called the burn ban, open burning, or fire restriction ordinance — set when you can burn yard waste, debris, or run a recreational fire.
Open burning is tightly restricted in Columbia County. The Georgia EPD summer ban prohibits most outdoor burning from May 1 through September 30, and year-round a Fire Marshal permit and Forestry Commission notification are required.
Columbia County is one of the 54 Georgia counties covered by the EPD summer open-burning ban, so land-clearing, yard-debris, and most other open burning is barred from May 1 through September 30. Outside those months, the Columbia County Fire Marshal issues permits for land-clearing, agricultural, forestry, and pest-control burning, and Georgia Forestry Commission notification is required first. Burning household garbage, tires, plastics, and construction debris is prohibited year-round under EPD Rule 391-3-1-.02(5). Authorized fires must be attended and generally occur between mid-morning and one hour before sunset. Recreational and cooking fires remain allowed under the fire code.
Illegal open burning, or burning during the May–September ban, is enforced by the Columbia County Fire Marshal and Georgia EPD, with fines, an order to extinguish, and liability for any escaped fire.
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