If you’re an agricultural operation, there are a distinct set of laws and allowances requiring a permit.
Learn more about agricultural burning.
Whether inside or outside an urban growth area, burning a structure for a fire training exercise might require a fire training burn permit (an asbestos notification form must be included with this application).
A land clearing burn permit is for burning of trees, stumps, shrubbery, or other natural vegetation from projects that clear the land so it can be developed or left unused. Examples of land clearing include, but are not limited to: removing forest trees so a house can be built, or tearing out an orchard or clearing rangeland to develop the
property.
A land clearing permit may be required. Contact your local planning department to see if your proposed burn site is in a restricted burning area.
A special burn permit is required for burning that does not qualify as either:
- Agricultural burning — burning of orchard trees, open fields, harvest debris.
- Land clearing — burning of trees, stumps, shrubs, other natural vegetation from land clearing.
To burn forest land check with the
Washington Department of Natural Resources
A special burn permit is required to burn vegetation in areas larger than 4 x 4 x 3 feet, or that does not qualify as either:
- Agricultural burning — burning of orchard trees, open fields, harvest debris.
- Land clearing — burning of trees, stumps, shrubs, other natural vegetation from land clearing.
- Any other special circumstances.