Burn Ban
The 2022 Georgia Summer Burn Ban Began May 1, 2022 and ends September 30, 2022.
Please familiarize yourselves with the terms of the burn ban.
There are 2 links included in this document that will take you to the state website, this is your best source of information.
During summer (May 1 - September 30), the following counties only allow burn types 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, and 12:
- Banks
- Barrow
- Bibb
- Butts
- Catoosa
- Chattooga
- Clarke
- Crawford
- Columbia
- Dawson
- Floyd
- Gordon
- Haralson
- Heard
- Houston
- Jackson
- Jasper
- Jones
- Lamar
- Lumpkin
- Madison
- Meriwether
- Monroe
- Morgan
- Oconee
- Peach
- Pickens
- Pike
- Polk
- Putnam
- Richmond
- Troup
- Twiggs
- Upson
- Walker
https://epd.georgia.gov/air-protection-branch/open-burning-rules-georgia/burn-types
The following Burn types are allowed.
- Burn Type 2 - Agricultural Procedures for Production or Harvesting of Crops (if land tract is 5 acres or less)
- Burn Type 3 - Burning vegetative material for agricultural operations (if land tract is greater than 5 acres)
- Burn Type 4 - Prescribed Burning
- Burn Type 5 - Recreational Purposes and Cooking
- Burn Type 6 - Fire-fighting Training
- Burn Type 10 - Open-flame Devices
- Burn Type 12 - Packaging Materials for Explosives
These burn types are not allowed.
- Burn Type 1 - Reduction of Leaves on Premises of Origin
- Burn Type 7 - Acquired Structure Burns
- Burn Type 8 - Vegetative Debris from Storms
- Burn Type 9 - Weed Abatement, Disease and Pest Prevention
- Burn Type 11 - Land Clearing, Construction, and Right-of-Way Maintenance
- Burn Type 13 – Land Clearing – Burning With Air Curtain Destructor
