Plano, TX Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

' The ban applies everywhere inside Plano's city limits, both the Collin County portion of the city and the smaller slice that extends into Denton County, the ordinance runs on municipal boundaries, not county lines, so there is no unincorporated carve-out. The only path to a legal fire is a ceremonial-campfire permit, and § 14-110 does not leave approval to a single office: it is 'subject to the restrictions of the fire department, health department, and Texas Air Quality Control Board,' meaning all three sign off before anyone may light a fire, even a small ceremonial one.

The section sits in Article VII of Chapter 14, alongside the hazardous-materials permitting rules of §§ 14-107 through 14-112, which the same 1992 ordinance (Ord. No. 92-9-20) established and which the city amended twice more, in 1994 (Ord. No. 94-8-7) and again in 2000 (Ord. No. 2000-10-5), without loosening the underlying prohibition. Because the code assigns no separate penalty to § 14-110, enforcement falls to the citywide general-penalty schedule in § 1-4(a), which caps fines for violations 'that govern fire safety, zoning or public health and sanitation' at $2,000 per offense.

A resident who wants an exception, a wedding bonfire, a scouting ceremony, a religious observance, has to apply for the ceremonial-campfire permit before striking a match; burning trash, brush, leaves or debris outside that narrow permit path is a straight violation with no other statutory exception written into the section.