Daytona Beach, FL Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

Sec. " "Solid waste" is defined in Sec. 703, and the same section defines "refuse" to include garbage and trash, so this reaches household and yard trash burned in a barrel or open pile, not just industrial waste. The exception is narrow: burning is only lawful if a federal or state permit specifically authorizes it, which in practice routes any lawful open burning through the Florida Forest Service's authorization process rather than any city permit desk, since Daytona Beach's own code does not create a local burn-permit pathway.

The prohibition sits inside the solid waste chapter (chapter 78) rather than a freestanding fire code section, meaning the city's rule targets waste disposal by fire specifically. Sec. 78-2 puts the city manager in charge of administering chapter 78 and allows written regulations implementing it, filed with public works and the city clerk, but the burning ban itself is set directly by ordinance, not left to administrative discretion. Because the ban is written into the same section as other prohibited waste-handling acts (placing waste in underground containers, mishandling sharps, disposing of hazardous or biomedical waste outside state and federal law), enforcement treats an open burn pile of household trash the same as any other unlawful waste-disposal method under this section.