County suspends outdoor burning in all unincorporated areas of Sonoma County

Permit Sonoma Fire Prevention Division today announced a suspension of burning in outdoor areas of unincorporated Sonoma County. The ban aligns with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, which suspended burning beginning July 3, and prohibits all outdoor burning in state responsibility areas.

The increasing fire danger posed by dead grass and hotter, drier conditions in the region is prompting Cal Fire to suspend all burn permits for outdoor residential burning within the state responsibility areas of Sonoma, Lake, Napa, Solano, Yolo and Colusa counties. This suspension took effect July 3 and includes all residential outdoor burning of landscape debris such as branches and leaves.

The County of Sonoma Fire Prevention Division has placed the same open burning suspension in effect within unincorporated Sonoma County, including the local responsibility areas and will coordinate with Cal Fire on lifting the burn suspension when conditions are safe. The burn suspension applies to all unincorporated areas within Sonoma County.

The burn suspension includes all open burning, although agricultural, forest management, fire training, and other industrial type burning may proceed if a Cal Fire official or a local fire chief has inspected the area and issued a permit.

The burn suspension helps by allowing a quick fire agency response to all fires observed after July 3 as they are assumed to be uncontrolled fires.

For more information on burning in unincorporated Sonoma County, please contact Permit Sonoma Fire Prevention Division at (707) 565-2361 or email FirePrevention@sonoma-county.org.

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Media Contacts:
Bradley Dunn, Permit Sonoma Policy Manager 
Bradley.Dunn@sonoma-county.org
(707) 321-0502
2550 Ventura Ave.
Santa Rosa, CA 95403