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Open Burning Regulations
City, County and State laws regulate open Burning in Layton City. Burning in Davis County as a whole is limited to agricultural burning or a recreational fire as defined below. To qualify for agricultural open burning you must have 2 acres of farmland, which is used for crop growth or have a fruit orchard with 25 or more fruit trees. Agricultural open burning is limited to organic items, which are incidental, and essential to the agricultural operation "NO TRASH OR YARD WASTE". An example of items which may be burned are: fence lines on cultivated property, stubble fields, ditch banks, weeds when clearing land to be planted and trimmings from fruit trees when in conjunction with an orchard. State law requires that farmers who are going to burn those items notify the nearest fire department prior to burning. Layton City requires that you notify the fire department at (336-3940) and provide them with the start and end times of the burn, an address where the burning will occur, the name and a phone number of the responsible party for the burn and the materials that you will be burning. In addition Layton City limits open burning to day light hours and on days that the clean air index, provided by The Davis County Health Department allows. All agricultural fires must be kept a minimum of 50 feet from structures, the responsible party must have a water supply or other means to control the fire, the fire must be constantly attended until completely out.
Layton City Fire Guidelines
Burning Allowed with Notification:
Camp Fires or recreational or cooking fires:
- Must be clean dry wood
- Must be kept under 3’ in diameter
- Must be kept under 2’ in pile height
- Must be kept a minimum 25’ from all structures and other combustibles
- Must be constantly attended by a person eighteen years of age or older
- Must have bucket of water hose or other means to extinguish
- Must be used solely for cooking or recreational purposes
- Must own the property or have written permission to kindel the fire
Agricultural Burning:
- Must have 2 acres of cultivated land or a fruit orchard of 25 or more fruit trees
- Must be incident to and essential to the agricultural operation
- Must be constantly attended
- To be conducted during daylight hours only
- Must have means to extinguish or control the fire
- Must be kept a minimum of 50’ from all structures
- Must comply with air quality index (except for ditch banks, cannel banks, fence lines on cultivated land. They are still asked to comply with air quality index)
- When any of the above burning is creating a public hazard the on duty fire officer may have the fire extinguished. When weather or other conditions make burning a hazard, such as winds etc. The officer on duty may deny all burning requests.
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