Outdoor burning rules in Daly City, CA — also called the burn ban, open burning, or fire restriction ordinance — set when you can burn yard waste, debris, or run a recreational fire.
Burning yard waste, trash, or debris outdoors is illegal in Daly City. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's Regulation 5 bans nearly all open burning region-wide, and the few allowable burn types are agricultural or land-management fires that require a designated burn day.
Daly City sits inside the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, whose Regulation 5 (Open Burning) makes most open burning illegal throughout the Bay Area. The Air District allows only a short list of burn types -- marsh management, double crop stubble, range management, stubble, crop replacement, flood debris, orchard pruning, and forest management fires -- each restricted to an established burn season and permissible only on a designated burn day. Residential burning of leaves, grass, garden trimmings, or other yard waste is prohibited and cannot be authorized even with a notification form and fee. Locally, Daly City Municipal Code section 15.32.010 adopts the 2022 California Fire Code, whose Chapter 3 (section 307) requires fire code official approval before any open burning and authorizes the fire department to order extinguishment of any fire that creates a hazardous or objectionable condition. Fire prevention in Daly City is administered through the North County Fire Authority.
Illegal open burning can draw enforcement and civil penalties from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (complaints: 1-877-4NO-BURN), and violations of the fire code adopted by DCMC Chapter 15.32 are misdemeanors punishable under Municipal Code section 1.12.010, with each ten days of a continuing violation constituting a separate offense.
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