The Home Almanac

Vol. I, MMXXVIThe Canadian home, in season655 stations, every province and territory

Backyard fire & fire-ban rules

Whether a backyard fire or fire pit is allowed where you live, for every Ontario municipality. Verified local bylaws are layered on top of the provincial fire restrictions so there is no dead end while the harvest continues.

Two layers decide it

Two layers decide whether you can have a fire today. First, your municipality's open-air burning bylaw sets whether backyard fires are allowed at all and whether you need a permit. Second, a temporary ban can be declared on top of that: a local fire chief can ban open-air fires city-wide during dry spells, and in the province's fire region (mostly central and northern Ontario, including cottage country) the Ministry can declare a Restricted Fire Zone under the Wildland Fire Management Act.

Ontario fire restrictions and the Forest Fire Information Map show provincial Restricted Fire Zones. Your city's page shows local bans.

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City Region Backyard wood fire Coverage
Kitchener Waterloo and Wellington Allowed, no permit Municipal rule Rules & today’s ban
London Southwestern Ontario Recreational fires allowed Municipal rule Rules & today’s ban
Mississauga Peel Allowed, follow the bylaw Municipal rule Rules & today’s ban
Hamilton Hamilton and area Permit required Municipal rule Rules & today’s ban
Ottawa Eastern Ontario Mostly rural, permit needed Municipal rule Rules & today’s ban
Vaughan York Permit required Municipal rule Rules & today’s ban
Brampton Peel Not allowed on residential property Municipal rule Rules & today’s ban
Toronto Greater Toronto Backyard wood fires not allowed Municipal rule Rules & today’s ban
Addington Highlands Lennox and Addington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Adelaide-Metcalfe Middlesex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Adjala-Tosorontio Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Admaston/Bromley Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Ajax Durham Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Alberton Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Alfred and Plantagenet Prescott and Russell Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Algonquin Highlands Haliburton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Alnwick/Haldimand Northumberland Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Amaranth Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Amherstburg Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Armour Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Armstrong Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Arnprior Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Arran-Elderslie Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Asphodel-Norwood Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Assiginack Manitoulin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Athens Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Atikokan Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Augusta Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Aurora York Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Aylmer Elgin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Baldwin Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bancroft Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Barrie Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bayham Elgin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Beckwith Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Belleville Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Billings Manitoulin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Black River-Matheson Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Blandford-Blenheim Oxford Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Blind River Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bluewater Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bonfield Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bonnechere Valley Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bracebridge Muskoka Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bradford West Gwillimbury Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brant County Brant Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brantford Brant Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brethour Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brighton Northumberland Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brock Durham Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brockton Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brockville Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brooke-Alvinston Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bruce County Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Bruce Mines Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Brudenell, Lyndoch and Raglan Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Burk’s Falls Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Burlington Halton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Burpee and Mills Manitoulin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Caledon Peel Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Callander Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Calvin Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Cambridge Waterloo Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Carleton Place Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Carling Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Carlow/Mayo Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Casey Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Casselman Prescott and Russell Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Cavan Monaghan Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Central Elgin Elgin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Central Frontenac Frontenac Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Central Huron Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Central Manitoulin Manitoulin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Centre Hastings Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Centre Wellington Wellington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Chamberlain Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Champlain Prescott and Russell Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Chapleau Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Chapple Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Charlton and Dack Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Chatham-Kent Chatham-Kent Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Chatsworth Grey Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Chisholm Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Clarence-Rockland Prescott and Russell Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Clarington Durham Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Clearview Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Cobalt Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Cobourg Northumberland Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Cochrane Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Cockburn Island Manitoulin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Coleman Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Collingwood Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Conmee Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Cornwall Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Cramahe Northumberland Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Dawn-Euphemia Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Dawson Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Deep River Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Deseronto Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Dorion Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Douro-Dummer Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Drummond/North Elmsley Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Dryden Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Dubreuilville Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Dufferin County Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Durham, Regional Municipality of Durham Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Dutton/Dunwich Elgin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Dysart et al Haliburton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Ear Falls Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
East Ferris Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
East Garafraxa Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
East Gwillimbury York Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
East Hawkesbury Prescott and Russell Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
East Zorra-Tavistock Oxford Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Edwardsburgh/Cardinal Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Elgin County Elgin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Elizabethtown-Kitley Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Elliot Lake Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Emo Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Englehart Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Enniskillen Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Erin Wellington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Espanola Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Essa Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Essex Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Essex County Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Evanturel Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Faraday Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Fauquier-Strickland Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Fort Erie Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Fort Frances Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
French River Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Front of Yonge Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Frontenac County Frontenac Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Frontenac Islands Frontenac Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Gananoque Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Gauthier Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Georgian Bay Muskoka Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Georgian Bluffs Grey Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Georgina York Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Gillies Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Goderich Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Gordon/Barrie Island Manitoulin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Gore Bay Manitoulin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Grand Valley Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Gravenhurst Muskoka Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Greater Madawaska Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Greater Napanee Lennox and Addington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Greater Sudbury Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Greenstone Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Grey County Grey Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Grey Highlands Grey Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Grimsby Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Guelph Wellington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Guelph/Eramosa Wellington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Haldimand County Haldimand Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Haliburton County Haliburton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Halton Hills Halton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Halton, Regional Municipality of Halton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hamilton Northumberland Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hanover Grey Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Harley Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Harris Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hastings County Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hastings Highlands Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Havelock-Belmont-Methuen Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hawkesbury Prescott and Russell Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Head, Clara and Maria Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hearst Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Highlands East Haliburton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hilliard Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hilton Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hilton Beach Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hornepayne Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Horton Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Howick Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Hudson Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Huntsville Muskoka Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Huron County Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Huron East Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Huron Shores Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Huron-Kinloss Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Ignace Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Ingersoll Oxford Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Innisfil Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Iroquois Falls Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
James Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Jocelyn Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Johnson Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Joly Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kapuskasing Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kawartha Lakes Kawartha Lakes Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kearney Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kenora Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kerns Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Killarney Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kincardine Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
King York Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kingston Frontenac Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kingsville Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Kirkland Lake Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
La Vallee Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Laird Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lake of Bays Muskoka Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lake of the Woods Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lakeshore Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lambton County Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lambton Shores Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lanark County Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lanark Highlands Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Larder Lake Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
LaSalle Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Latchford Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Laurentian Hills Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Laurentian Valley Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Leamington Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Leeds and Grenville Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Leeds and the Thousand Islands Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lennox and Addington County Lennox and Addington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Limerick Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lincoln Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Loyalist Lennox and Addington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Lucan Biddulph Middlesex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Machar Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Machin Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Madawaska Valley Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Madoc Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Magnetawan Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Malahide Elgin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Manitouwadge Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Mapleton Wellington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Marathon Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Markham York Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Markstay-Warren Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Marmora and Lake Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Matachewan Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Mattawa Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Mattawan Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Mattice-Val CA´tA© Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
McDougall Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
McGarry Timiskaming Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
McKellar Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
McMurrich/Monteith Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
McNab/Braeside Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Meaford Grey Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Melancthon Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Merrickville-Wolford Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Middlesex Centre Middlesex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Middlesex County Middlesex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Midland Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Milton Halton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Minden Hills Haliburton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Minto Wellington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Mississippi Mills Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Mono Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Montague Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Moonbeam Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Moosonee Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Morley Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Morris-Turnberry Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Mulmur Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Muskoka Muskoka Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Muskoka Lakes Muskoka Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Nairn and Hyman Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Neebing Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
New Tecumseth Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Newbury Middlesex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Newmarket York Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Niagara Falls Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Niagara-on-the-Lake Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Niagara, Regional Municipality of Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Nipigon Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Nipissing Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Norfolk County Norfolk Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Algona Wilberforce Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Bay Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Dumfries Waterloo Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Dundas Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Frontenac Frontenac Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Glengarry Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Grenville Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Huron Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Kawartha Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Middlesex Middlesex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Perth Perth Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
North Stormont Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Northeastern Manitoulin and The Islands Manitoulin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Northern Bruce Peninsula Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Northumberland County Northumberland Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Norwich Oxford Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
O’Connor Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Oakville Halton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Oil Springs Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Oliver Paipoonge Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Opasatika Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Orangeville Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Orillia Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Oro-Medonte Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Oshawa Durham Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Otonabee-South Monaghan Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Owen Sound Grey Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Oxford County Oxford Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Papineau-Cameron Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Parry Sound Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Peel, Regional Municipality of Peel Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Pelee Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Pelham Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Pembroke Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Penetanguishene Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Perry Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Perth Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Perth County Perth Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Perth East Perth Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Perth South Perth Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Petawawa Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Peterborough Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Peterborough County Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Petrolia Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Pickering Durham Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Pickle Lake Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Plummer Additional Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Plympton-Wyoming Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Point Edward Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Port Colborne Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Port Hope Northumberland Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Powassan Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Prescott Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Prescott and Russell Prescott and Russell Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Prince Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Prince Edward County Prince Edward Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Puslinch Wellington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Quinte West Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Rainy River Rainy River Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Ramara Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Red Lake Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Red Rock Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Renfrew Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Renfrew County Renfrew Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Richmond Hill York Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Rideau Lakes Leeds and Grenville Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Russell Prescott and Russell Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Ryerson Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Sables-Spanish Rivers Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Sarnia Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Saugeen Shores Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Sault Ste. Marie Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Schreiber Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Scugog Durham Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Seguin Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Selwyn Peterborough Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Severn Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Shelburne Dufferin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Shuniah Thunder Bay Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Simcoe County Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Sioux Lookout Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Sioux Narrows-Nestor Falls Kenora Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Smiths Falls Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Smooth Rock Falls Cochrane Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South Algonquin Nipissing Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South Bruce Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South Bruce Peninsula Bruce Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South Dundas Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South Frontenac Frontenac Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South Glengarry Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South Huron Huron Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South River Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South Stormont Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
South-West Oxford Oxford Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Southgate Grey Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Southwest Middlesex Middlesex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Southwold Elgin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Spanish Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Springwater Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
St. Catharines Niagara Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
St. Clair Lambton Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
St. Joseph Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
St. Marys Perth Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
St. Thomas Elgin Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
St.-Charles Sudbury Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Stirling-Rawdon Hastings Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Stone Mills Lennox and Addington Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Stratford Perth Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Strathroy-Caradoc Middlesex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Strong Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Sundridge Parry Sound Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Tarbutt Algoma Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Tay Simcoe Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Tay Valley Lanark Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
Tecumseh Essex Local bylaw check Provincial baseline Rules & today’s ban
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Tap a municipality for the full rule, whether a permit is needed, gas versus wood, and the source link with the date it was checked.

Fire and fire-ban questions

Can I have a backyard fire pit in Ontario?

It depends entirely on your municipality. Some places allow a contained recreational fire, some require a permit, and some do not allow backyard wood fires at all. Gas and propane fire pits are usually treated separately. Find your municipality below.

How do I check if there is a fire ban today?

Two things can stop a fire even where it is normally allowed. Your local fire department can declare a temporary municipal ban in dry weather, posted on the city site. And in the province’s fire region (central and northern Ontario, including cottage country), the Ministry can declare a Restricted Fire Zone. Check the Ontario fire restrictions page and the Forest Fire Information Map before lighting one.

Are propane or gas fire pits allowed?

Almost always, yes. Gas and propane units are not open-air wood burning, so they sit outside most burning bylaws, though they still must be used safely and away from anything combustible. In cities that ban backyard wood fires, an approved gas unit is the compliant way to have a fire.

How this page was made

Each verified local rule is taken from the municipality's open-air burning bylaw or fire-department page. Baseline rows use Ontario fire restrictions, last checked on 2026-06-24.

This is a plain-language summary, not the bylaw, and not legal advice. Open-air burning rules and bans change quickly, especially in dry weather. Always check your municipality's page and today's ban status before you light anything.