Outdoor burning rules in Yorba Linda, CA — also called the burn ban, open burning, or fire restriction ordinance — set when you can burn yard waste, debris, or run a recreational fire.
Open outdoor burning is tightly restricted in Yorba Linda. The adopted 2022 California Fire Code (YLMC Chapter 15.08, Section 307) bans burning wood and solid fuels in fuel-modification, wildfire-risk, and wildland-urban-interface areas, and South Coast AQMD Rule 444 regulates open burning regionally.
Yorba Linda sits in the South Coast Air Basin, where open burning of vegetation, rubbish, and construction debris is broadly prohibited except under narrow agricultural or hazard-abatement cases allowed by South Coast Air Quality Management District Rule 444, and only on approved burn days with permits. Locally, Municipal Code Chapter 15.08 adopts the 2022 California Fire Code, and its Section 307 prohibits burning wood and other solid fuels within any fuel-modification zone, Wildfire Risk Area, or Wildland-Urban Interface Area, or where fire could spread to those areas. Because most of the city's fire-hazard acreage is mapped Very High and it was hit by the 2008 Freeway Complex Fire, open burning of yard waste is not a lawful disposal method; residents
Illegal open burning is enforced by the Orange County Fire Authority and, for air-quality violations, by the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which can issue notices of violation and administrative penalties. Fire Code violations are misdemeanors under the adopted
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