Safety Harbor, FL Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)
Outdoor burning rules in Safety Harbor, FL, also called the burn ban, open burning, or fire restriction ordinance, set when you can burn yard waste, debris, or run a recreational fire.
Key Facts
- Governing rule
- Pinellas County Code, Article V
- City citation
- Safety Harbor City Code § 8.23
- Adopted
- Ord. No. 2019-08, Aug. 5, 2019
- Local permit/penalty rules
- Repealed by the city in 2019
- Enforcement
- Handled under county ordinance, not city
Summary
Safety Harbor adopts no separate open burning rules of its own. City Code § 8.23 sends the entire topic to Article V of the Pinellas County Code of Ordinances, which governs burning citywide.
Any open burning within the City of Safety Harbor is subject to article V of the Pinellas County Code of Ordinances.
(Ord. No. 2019-08, § 6, 8-5-2019)
Editor's note— Ord. No. 2019-08, § 6, adopted Aug. 5, 2019, repealed § 8.23 and enacted a new § 8.23, as set out herein. The former § 8.23 pertained to definitions of open burning and derived from the Code of 1970, § 20-21.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 65 | Land Development Code: Supplement 20).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 8.23 of the Safety Harbor City Code states plainly that any open burning within the city is subject to Article V of the Pinellas County Code of Ordinances. The city adopted this deferral through Ord. No. 2019-08, § 6 on August 5, 2019, which repealed the prior version of § 8.23 (that had defined open burning) along with the city's own permit, limitation, frost-protection, and penalty sections (former §§ 8.24-8.28). Since then, Safety Harbor has had no independent open-burning code: residents and businesses must instead look to the county's ordinance for permits, restrictions, and prohibited materials.
Violations & Fines
Safety Harbor has no local open-burning permit or penalty schedule of its own: enforcement runs entirely under Pinellas County's Article V ordinance since the city repealed its own rules in 2019.
Frequently Asked Questions
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