Issued by Marion County Fire Defense Board
Updated, July 30, 2021, at 8:00 a.m.
All fire agencies within Marion County have extended the High-Fire Danger Burn Ban based on a recommendation by the Marion County Fire Defense Board. Marion County fire agencies include: Aumsville Fire District, Aurora Fire District, Drakes Crossing Fire District, Gates Fire District, Hubbard Fire District, Idanha Detroit Fire District, Jefferson Fire District, Keizer Fire District, Lyons Fire District, Marion County Fire District #1, Mill City Fire District, Monitor Fire District, Mount Angel Fire District, Silverton Fire District, St. Paul Fire District, Salem Fire Department, Stayton Fire District, Sublimity Fire District, Turner Fire District, & Woodburn Fire District. Burning restrictions are authorized under Oregon Revised Statute 478.960 and Oregon Fire Code 307.
The burn ban prohibits all the following:
1. Backyard or open burning (branches, yard debris, etc.).
2. Agricultural burning without a valid permit (agricultural wastes, crops, field burning, etc.)
3. Any other land clearing, slash, stump, waste, debris, or controlled burning.
Additionally, this burn ban may prohibit or allow the following, and REQUIRES prior authorization from your local fire jurisdiction until further notice:
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 combustibles or vegetation and are fully extinguished after use.
Allowed:
1. Barbeque grills, smokers and similar cooking appliances with clean, dry fuel, briquettes, wood chips, pellets, propane, natural gas, or similar fuels that do not emit embers and no visibly open flame while cooking.
ODF North Cascade District has entered EXTREME Fire Danger Level. ODF restrictions now include prohibitions on campfires on State owned lands East of Interstate 5. Smoking, target shooting, powered equipment, motorized vehicles, and other public/private landowner and industrial fire restrictions also exist on ODF lands. More details about ODF fire restrictions are available at https://gisapps.odf.oregon.gov/firerestrictions/PFR.html.
Outdoor fires in violation of this burn ban may be immediately extinguished. If a fire agency responds to a fire that has been started in willful violation of this burn ban, the person responsible may be liable for all costs incurred, as well as legal fees per ORS 478.965.
Fire chiefs in Marion County encourage 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.
