Coral Springs, FL Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

Article IV of Chapter 7 defines open burning broadly in § 7-30 as any outdoor fire or combustion that produces or may produce air pollution, which sweeps in everything from a backyard debris fire to an uncontained trash burn. Section 7-31's general prohibition then bars any open burning not specifically allowed by the article, and it authorizes the Florida Division of Forestry or any authorized fire control agency to put out an unlawful fire and recover the extinguishing costs from whoever is responsible. The only carve-outs are in § 7-32: noncommercial outdoor cooking in a stove, oven, barbecue pit, or fireplace is allowed as long as the fire is contained and is not used to burn yard waste, trash, house refuse, garbage, recyclables, or commercial debris; an outdoor heating device such as a residential fire pit is allowed if it burns approved fuel and stays contained within the device, again without burning yard waste or trash; and fire department training burns are allowed.

Because the definitions in § 7-30 exclude yard waste, trash, and garbage from every exemption, a resident cannot legally burn landscaping debris, leaves, or household refuse in a fire pit or burn barrel anywhere in the city, even during dry conditions. The fire marshal's office administers this article alongside the Broward County Edition of the Florida Fire Prevention Code.