Yuba City, CA Fire Regulations: Outdoor Burning (2026)

06, titled 'Prohibition,' sits inside the Mandatory Refuse Collection Services chapter and lists several refuse-related nuisances: letting refuse accumulate past the allowed period, dumping refuse on someone else's property without consent, an owner knowingly letting tenants dump refuse elsewhere, and depositing refuse in a street or public place. Subsection (e) singles out burning specifically, stating that no person shall use burning as a method of refuse disposal except in accordance with Feather River Air Quality Management District requirements and procedures. Because FRAQMD, not Yuba City, administers the permit and burn-day system for the Sacramento Valley air basin, a resident cannot simply set a burn pile alight in a backyard; the burn only becomes lawful once FRAQMD's own rules for that activity are satisfied, and burn days are frequently curtailed given the basin's air-quality status.

The rule applies to household and yard refuse burning covered by this chapter; it is not a general fireworks or agricultural-burning statute, though it shows the City treats do-it-yourself burning as an illegal disposal method rather than tolerating it as a nuisance to be cleaned up after the fact.