Clackamas Fire Enacts Fire Restrictions - 07/27/22

Beginning Thursday, July 28, 2022 at 7:00am, Clackamas Fire will enact fire restrictions based on recommendations made by the Clackamas County Fire Defense Board. Burning restrictions are authorized under Oregon Revised Statute 478.960 and Oregon Fire Code 307.

The fire restrictions prohibit the following:

 1-Backyard or open burning (branches, yard debris, etc.).

 2-Agricultural burning (agricultural wastes, crops, field burning, etc.).

 3-Any other land clearing, slash, stump, waste, debris or controlled burning.

The fire restrictions do not prohibit: 

 1-small outdoor cooking, warming or recreational fires. These include portable or permanent fire pits,fire tables, and campfires, with a maximum fuel area of three feet in diameter and two feet in height in a safe location away from cumbustibles or vegetation and are fully extinguished after use.

 2-Barbeque grills, smokers and similar cooking appliances with clean, dry firewood, briquettes, wood chips, pellets, propane, natural gas, or similar fuels.

There may be more restrictive fire safety rules within Oregon Dept. of Forestry (ODF)- protected land, which exists throughout much of rural Clackamas County. ODF restrictions may include prohibitions on campfires, smoking, target shooting, powered equipment, motorized vehicles, and other public/private landowner and industrial fire restrictions. More details about ODF fire restrictions are available at https://gisapps.odf.oregon.gov/firerestrictions/pfr.html .

Clackamas Fire encourages the public to use extreme caution with activities that could start a fire. It is everyone's responsibility to prevent and be prepared for wildfires. 

*Please see attachment for complete fire restriction announcement*