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.

Find your fire rule

Enter a town name or the first three postal-code characters.

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
Tehkummah	Manitoulin	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Temagami	Nipissing	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Temiskaming Shores	Timiskaming	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Terrace Bay	Thunder Bay	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Thames Centre	Middlesex	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
The Archipelago	Parry Sound	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
The Blue Mountains	Grey	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
The Nation Municipality	Prescott and Russell	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
The North Shore	Algoma	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Thessalon	Algoma	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Thornloe	Timiskaming	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Thorold	Niagara	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Thunder Bay	Thunder Bay	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Tillsonburg	Oxford	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Timmins	Cochrane	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Tiny	Simcoe	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Trent Hills	Northumberland	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Trent Lakes	Peterborough	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Tudor and Cashel	Hastings	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Tweed	Hastings	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Tyendinaga	Hastings	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Uxbridge	Durham	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Val Rita-Harty	Cochrane	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Wainfleet	Niagara	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Warwick	Lambton	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Wasaga Beach	Simcoe	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Waterloo	Waterloo	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Waterloo, Regional Municipality of	Waterloo	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Wawa	Algoma	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Welland	Niagara	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Wellesley	Waterloo	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Wellington County	Wellington	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Wellington North	Wellington	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
West Elgin	Elgin	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
West Grey	Grey	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
West Lincoln	Niagara	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
West Nipissing	Nipissing	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
West Perth	Perth	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Westport	Leeds and Grenville	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Whitby	Durham	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Whitchurch-Stouffville	York	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
White River	Algoma	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Whitestone	Parry Sound	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Whitewater Region	Renfrew	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Wilmot	Waterloo	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Windsor	Essex	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Wollaston	Hastings	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Woodstock	Oxford	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Woolwich	Waterloo	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
York, Regional Municipality of	York	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban
Zorra	Oxford	Local bylaw check	Provincial baseline	Rules & today’s ban

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.

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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.