The Georgia Environmental Protection Division officially began its ban on outdoor burning on Monday and will remain in effect until first of September. Walker County and several other Georgia counties are under this restriction.
Counties Under the Burn Ban Include:
Banks Barrow Bartow Bibb Butts
Carroll Catoosa Chattooga Cherokee Clarke
Clayton Cobb Columbia Coweta Crawford
Dawson DeKalb Douglas
Fayette Floyd Forsyth Fulton
Gordon Gwinnett Hall Haralson
Heard Henry Houston
Jackson Jasper Jones Lamar Lumpkin
Madison Meriwether Monroe Morgan
Newton Oconee Paulding Peach Pickens
Pike Polk Putnam Richmond Rockdale
Spalding Troup Twiggs Upson Walker Walton
Burn permits from the Georgia Forestry Commission will not be necessary to burn outside in unincorporated areas of Walker County as of July 1, 2021 from October 1 to April 30.
For more information regarding the burn ban, visit the Walker County Government site!
