Edmonds, WA Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

030(B) states the core prohibition in blunt terms: notwithstanding any other code provision to the contrary, it is unlawful for any person to engage in outdoor burning within the city limits of Edmonds, except as provided elsewhere in the same chapter. That 'notwithstanding' language signals the city council's intent that this ban override conflicting provisions found elsewhere in the code. The chapter's narrow carve-outs, covering fire-fighting training, small cooking fires, designated campgrounds, safety flares and Puget Sound Clean Air Agency-regulated recreational fires, are the only way to burn outdoors lawfully in Edmonds; anything not on that list is banned outright.

Subsection (D) sets the penalty: a person violating the section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. 431 as those state air-quality statutes exist or are later amended, meaning the state clean-air penalty framework now governs sentencing for a local burning violation even though the underlying prohibition remains a city ordinance. This dual structure, a city-enacted ban with state-linked penalties, distinguishes Edmonds' ban from a simple flat-fine ordinance and ties enforcement severity to Washington's broader clean-air enforcement scheme.