Eastvale, CA Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

Eastvale Municipal Code § 16.05.630, adopted under the city's solid waste ordinance (Ord. No. 22-02), makes it unlawful to burn any solid waste anywhere in the city except inside an approved incinerator or transformation facility operating under a permit and complying with air pollution control agency rules. The section folds in every other applicable law, so a resident burning yard waste, trash, or debris piles in a backyard fire pit without that permit is violating city code.

A second, narrower rule applies specifically inside the city's wildland-urban interface (WUI) area, designated by Ordinance No. 25-05 covering the moderate, high, and very high Fire Hazard Severity Zones mapped by the State Fire Marshal. There, Eastvale Municipal Code § 110.22.020, amending Section 105.2 of the adopted California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, lists "Open burning" among the activities requiring a permit from the code official before it can occur, alongside fireworks, blasting, and fuel modification work. Because Eastvale contracts with the Riverside County Fire Department for fire services, that department's Fire Chief and Chief Deputy administer this permit and enforcement inside city limits. Property owners planning any pile burning, agricultural debris burning, or open fire on land within a mapped fire hazard severity zone need this permit even if the burn would otherwise be legal under § 16.05.630.