Check the Burn Rules Before Outdoor Burning in Tarrant County

Out past the city limits, burning a brush pile is sometimes allowed, but only in the unincorporated parts of the county, and only within the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's outdoor-burning rules. Cities draw their own lines, so a county rule never lets you light a pile inside a town.

On the day you want to burn, call Tarrant County Regional Communications at 817-232-9800 to register the address and confirm it's an allowable burn day. The limits are practical and worth memorizing: burn only between an hour after sunrise and an hour before sunset, never when the wind tops 23 mph, keep someone responsible on site the entire time, and burn only material the property itself generated, with no hauling brush in from somewhere else. And when the Commissioners Court has a burn ban running, all of that is off the table; on a dry, windy summer afternoon, that's exactly when you'll want to make the call first.