Port Orange, FL Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

Section 42-30 bars burning or burying garbage or other refuse anywhere in the city except as allowed by Section 42-31, which governs the burning of trash and ground cover. Section 42-31 defines 'trash' as accumulations of grass, tree, shrubbery or weed cuttings, pine needles and similar yard-care refuse, while carving out 'natural cover' (trees, brush, roots and other land-clearing byproducts) as a separate defined category; neither definition covers appliances, furniture, bedding, building materials, lumber or logs longer than four feet. Under subsection (b), the fire department may permit open burning of trash and natural cover from land clearing only after determining that weather conditions will let smoke and fire byproducts escape without hazard or nuisance to nearby residents, that the location, amount and nature of the material present no health or safety hazard, and the fire chief sets the hours during which burning may occur and must be extinguished.

Subsection (c) requires a burning permit from the fire department before each individual burn, subject to whatever conditions the department imposes, and a resolution-set fee applies to every permit issued. Any burn conducted outside a permit's conditions, or without a permit at all, is punishable under Section 1-8 and can also cause the fire chief to revoke the existing permit and deny future applications where the violation is found to have created a public hazard.