Franklin County, FL Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

Franklin County Code § 13-9 does not set up a general burn-permit system for private land; it targets two specific fire acts. First, it bars anyone from burning sea oats or dune vegetation on any public beach in the county, protecting the dune systems that anchor St. George Island, Alligator Point and Dog Island against erosion. Second, on county property or right-of-way, it presumes that burning rubbish, trash, mattresses, noxious materials, construction debris or tires is vandalism, folding illegal burning into the county's anti-vandalism enforcement rather than treating it as a routine code-enforcement matter.

00, up to 60 days in the county jail, or both. Because the section is scoped to public beaches and county-owned land and right-of-way, it does not by its terms reach a resident burning yard debris on their own residential lot in Eastpoint or Lanark Village; open burning on private land in unincorporated Franklin County otherwise falls under state forestry burn-authorization law rather than this county chapter. The ordinance traces to Ord. No. 94-3, adopted May 3, 1994, and was codified by the editor as § 13-9 since the adopting ordinance did not specifically amend the Code.