Polk County's average drought index reading surpassed 500 on Tuesday, indicating an elevated chance of wildfires.

Officials enacted the ban on Tuesday (April 15) after the county's drought scale, the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI), ...

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Now it's also illegal. Lee County commissioners agreed on Tuesday to enact a burn ban, declaring a State of Local Emergency to do so. Public Safety Director Ben Abes told commissioners the Keetch ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Since the start of 2025, Douglas County has been in and out of a burn ban. Bans are in place mainly to reduce the chance of a wildfire when conditions outside are not favorable.

Allegany County, the ACCORD Corp., the Western New York Incubator Network, Western NY Wilds, The Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology (CACT) at Alfred University, and Sealing Devices Inc ...

Lee County has joined rest of Southwest Florida by enacting a burn ban. Conditions here are drought-like, and the rainy season is at least a month away. Collier, Charlotte, Glades and Hendry ...

The Benton County fire marshal issued a 24-hour countywide burn ban Monday morning, according to a news release sent by county spokeswoman Melody Kwok at 6:30 a.m. Monday. No outdoor, open burning ...