Custer County bans open burning

The risk of wildfires has prompted Custer County to join Butte County in implementing a ban on open burning beginning today.

The ban includes any burning on private and state lands outside the Black Hills Forest Fire Protection District where burning restrictions already apply.

The ban applies unilaterally to all State of South Dakota issued permits, including burn barrels.

Open burning activities include, but are to: campfires, warming fires, charcoal grill fires or prescribed burning of fence rows, fields, wildlands, trash and debris. The resolution excludes liquid-fueled or gas fueled stoves, fireplaces within buildings, charcoal grill fires at private residences and permanent fire pits or fire grates located on supervised developed picnic grounds and campgrounds.

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