Huntington Park, CA Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

The rule sits in Title 5, Chapter 11 (Nuisances), Article 3 of the Huntington Park Municipal Code. It targets the harm, not the flame: burning is unlawful when it is done in a manner that causes noxious odors or gas to taint the air and render it unwholesome or injurious to health, or offensive to the senses, of the inhabitants of the City or any number of them. The section reaches anyone who burns, allows, or permits burning on premises that person owns, occupies, or controls, so a property owner answers for a fire a tenant lights, not only the person holding the match. Section 1-2.02 backs that up by treating causing, permitting, aiding, or abetting an unlawful act as part of the offense.

The section is narrow. It lists specific materials and ends with the catch-all phrase other substances, and it says nothing about fire pits, campfires, or yard-waste burning as such. Fire safety rules for the City sit elsewhere: § 4-5.01 adopts the Los Angeles County Fire Code (Title 32 of the County Code) as the Fire Code for the City, and § 4-5.02 assigns enforcement of that Fire Code to the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Section 5-11.20 preserves the City's right to bring a civil action in court to abate any nuisance under this chapter, on top of any criminal penalty.

Inside City parks a separate rule applies. Section 5-21.102(m) makes it unlawful to build an open fire except in fire rings provided and when authorized by the Director of Parks and Recreation, and § 5-21.102(n) bars bringing in, possessing, setting off, or burning fireworks. Park rules are enforced as infractions under § 5-21.103.