Lehigh County has no designated wildfire hazard zones or WUI fire-severity maps - Pennsylvania does not classify property that way. Wildfire risk is managed through statewide burn bans issued by PA DCNR during dry, high-danger periods rather than mapped building or clearance requirements.
Unlike Western states, Pennsylvania does not maintain fire-hazard-severity or Wildland-Urban-Interface zones, so Lehigh County property is not assigned a wildfire zone and there are no zone-based building or brush-clearance mandates. Instead, PA DCNR and county authorities can declare temporary burn bans when drought and wildfire danger are high, prohibiting open burning and campfires countywide until lifted. Spring (March-May) is PA's peak wildfire season. During a declared ban, the local open-burning permits described above are suspended. Check DCNR's burn-ban map or the county before any outdoor burning.
Burning during a declared burn ban is a summary offense with fines; there are no wildfire-zone construction penalties because no such zones exist in PA.
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