Dunwoody, GA Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

City Code § 22-1, adopted February 9, 2026 by Ordinance No. 2026-02-01, flatly bars open burning of yard waste anywhere within Dunwoody's city limits. The ordinance defines the banned material broadly: brush, leaves, grass, and clippings are named specifically, so a homeowner cannot burn a pile of raked leaves or downed limbs in a backyard fire ring, even on a large wooded lot. There is no permit process written into § 22-1 that would let a resident obtain approval for a supervised yard-waste fire; the statute is a flat ban, not a permit-and-limit scheme.

Residents composting on-site face a companion restriction: the zoning code's residential composting rule, § 27-171(h), separately states that burning of compost piles is not allowed, so the burn ban reaches material even after it has been stockpiled for composting. Violations of § 22-1 fall under the Code's general penalty provision, § 1-6, which allows punishment up to the maximum fine or sentence permitted by state law or the city Charter, and treats a continuing violation as a new, separate offense each day it persists. Because the ordinance carries no built-in exception for ceremonial fires, agricultural clearing, or cooking fires, anyone wanting an outdoor fire for those purposes must look to the state's separate open-burning permit system, not to city code.