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Burn Ban News

The national picture, updated every day: which states have bans, how many counties are affected, the ban level, and when each number was last verified. Right now 208 counties are under a ban across the 1 states we track.

This page is informational and is not a permit. Burn bans can be enacted or lifted at any hour, and cities, fire districts and air quality authorities often set stricter rules than the county. Always confirm with your local fire authority before burning.

Updated daily · every figure below carries the agency source it was read from and the time it was checked.

State	Ban level	Counties affected	Of total	Last verified
Texas	Burn ban	208	254	Sep 5, 01:14 PM

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Texas — counties under a ban

Anderson Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bell Blanco Bosque Bowie Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Caldwell Calhoun Callahan Carson Cass Castro Cherokee Clay Cochran Coke Coleman Collin Collingsworth Colorado Comal Comanche Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crosby Culberson Dallam Dallas Deaf Smith Delta Denton Dewitt Dickens Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland El Paso Ellis Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Foard Fort Bend Franklin Freestone Frio Galveston Garza Gillespie Glasscock Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Hardeman Harrison Hartley Hays Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo Hill Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hudspeth Hunt Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jeff Davis Jim Hogg Jim Wells Johnson Jones Kaufman Kendall Kent Kerr Kimble King Kinney Kleberg Knox La Salle Lamar Lamb Lampasas Lavaca Lee Leon Limestone Lipscomb Llano Lynn Madison Marion Martin Mason Matagorda Mcculloch Mclennan Menard Midland Milam Mills Montague Moore Morris Motley Nacogdoches Navarro Nueces Ochiltree Oldham Palo Pinto Panola Parker Parmer Polk Potter Presidio Rains Randall Reagan Real Red River Reeves Roberts Robertson Rockwall Runnels Rusk Sabine San Augustine San Patricio San Saba Schleicher Shackelford Shelby Sherman Smith Somervell Starr Stephens Swisher Tarrant Taylor Terrell Terry Throckmorton Tom Green Travis Trinity Upshur Upton Van Zandt Victoria Walker Waller Ward Washington Webb Wharton Wheeler Wichita Wilbarger Willacy Williamson Wilson Winkler Wise Wood Yoakum Young Zapata Zavala