Mount Pleasant, SC Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

Mount Pleasant's fire code chapter makes open burning presumptively illegal and then carves out a permit path. 30(A) bars burning leaves, debris, trash, refuse, rubbish, tree limbs, chips, shavings, building materials, or lighting a bonfire or rubbish fire outside any house or structure in town, unless four conditions are all met: a competent individual controls the burn, someone attends it until it's fully out, the material burns inside a non-combustible, screen-covered container approved by the Fire Chief or another Town Fire Department officer, and an effective extinguishing tool, such as a Class ABC extinguisher, garden hose, sand bucket, or water barrel, sits on site ready to use.

31. Getting one means submitting a site plan showing property lines, adjacent roadways, occupied structures and the proposed burn pile locations; the contractor's business name and license number, if any; emergency phone numbers; and passing an on-site inspection by a Fire Official. A permit, once issued, is good for 30 calendar days, covers one location on the property, and costs a flat $100 regardless of project size or number of piles. , piles must sit at least 1,000 feet from public roadways and from any structure not on the same contiguous property, and no more than two piles, each capped at 30 by 30 by 12 feet, may burn within a six-acre area at once.