Maple Grove, MN Fire Regulations: Wildfire Zones (2026)

Maple Grove does not have locally mapped wildfire hazard severity zones or a wildland-urban-interface building overlay of the kind used in high-risk western states. As a fully developed suburb in Hennepin County within the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, its wildland fire exposure is low, and the City Code does not adopt special construction or vegetation standards keyed to a wildfire zone. Wildfire-related risk is instead managed two ways. First, the Minnesota DNR sets statewide and county-level fire danger ratings and seasonal burning restrictions; during high fire-danger periods the DNR may suspend issuance of open burning permits, and Maple Grove City Code Sec. 18-78 designates the Fire Chief, in consultation with the DNR, as the authority to impose burning restrictions. Second, the city's recreational-fire and open-burning rules (Sec. 18-78) limit when and how fires may be set - requiring permits, wind-speed limits (under 10 mph for recreational fires, under 20 mph for open burns), clearance of spread conditions near structures, and prohibition of yard-waste and brush burning. The Minnesota DNR's Firewise program offers voluntary risk-reduction guidance for homeowners in the wildland-urban interface statewide, and the Minnesota Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal maps threat, WUI, and fuels, but neither imposes a Maple Grove mandate.