Manatee County Enacts Burn Ban

Due to dry, drought, and windy conditions, the Manatee Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) has enacted a ban on all outdoor burning and the use and discharge of fireworks and sparklers in the county, effective immediately.   
 
Emergency Managers point out that the ban includes items containing any "explosive compound," sparklers, any item or product using or containing any amount of pyrotechnic composition, flares, open burning, and campfires because of the increasingly dry conditions in the county. 
 
“It’s been a very dry season,” said Manatee County Public Safety Director Jodie Fiske. “Our Emergency Management Division regularly talks with our Fire Chiefs Association and Forestry, and they are all in agreement that we need to enact a burn ban.”  
 
The following will continue to be allowed: 

• Outdoor cookers or grills if attended by a responsible adult while the unit is in use. 

• Any agricultural, silvicultural, or land-clearing burn that has been authorized by the Florida Forest Service, and it has been determined that there will be sufficient fire-suppression equipment and personnel on site. 

• Properly permitted public fireworks displays with adequate fire-suppression equipment and personnel on site. 

• Flares discharged over the Gulf. 

 
This burn ban will be in effect until 11:59 p.m., November 11, 2025, unless extended as allowed by law. 
 
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