Sacramento, CA Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

34 so that an operational permit is required to ignite or maintain a fire on any public property under any circumstance, or on private property unless the person burning has the express permission of the lessee or property owner. The section carves out no exceptions for yard debris, agricultural burning or trash disposal, those activities fall under the same operational-permit requirement as any other open burning. Once a permit is issued, the holder must adhere to the instructions and stipulations attached to it; deviating from those conditions is treated as its own violation independent of the underlying no-permit offense.

010) and layered Sacramento's local amendments over it via Ord. 2023-0014 § 3. 2 to govern small recreational fires, campfires, fire pits and similar contained flames under 3 feet in diameter, with a 25-foot setback rather than the open-burning permit track, so a resident burning debris or brush in a pile is regulated far more strictly than someone using a contained backyard fire pit. The fire code official administers the open-burning permit and can deny, condition or revoke it based on weather, air-quality restrictions or fire-danger conditions in the area.