Allen County has no designated wildfire hazard zones or WUI ordinance. Northeast Indiana is not a wildfire-prone region, so there are no defensible-space or fire-hardening building rules; fire risk is managed through the open-burning ordinance and seasonal burn bans.
Unlike western states, Indiana does not map wildland-urban interface (WUI) or wildfire hazard severity zones, and Allen County has adopted no wildfire-zone ordinance or defensible-space requirement. Vegetation-fire risk in the county is instead managed through Allen County Code Article 20 (open burning restrictions) and, when conditions are dry, temporary countywide burn bans issued by the Board of Commissioners with input from the Office of Homeland Security / Emergency Management. Indiana DHS maintains a statewide burn-ban status map. During a declared burn ban, most outdoor burning is prohibited, though the ban does not by itself restrict consumer fireworks.
Burning during a declared county burn ban is enforced under the emergency declaration and the open-burning ordinance (AC 8-20-5); fireworks are not covered by a burn ban.
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