According to the State Fire Marshall’s website, there are eight counties who have established open burn bans.

Greene County was one of the first to declare a burn ban on September 6th.  Since the burn ban been in effect, Haupert states that they haven’t had anyone disobey it.

“We’ve had several incidents that were reported, that the sheriff’s office went and checked on, but they were smaller garbage fires or camping fires that were contained.”

Sheriff Steve Haupert has some reminders for people during the burn ban.

He says that the burn ban is specifically for large-scale field burns but people are allowed to have fire pits for recreational fires, outdoor grills or small-scale trash burning.  Sheriff Haupert requests that if you’re going to burn trash or have a fire, to make sure that it’s always supervised.

He points out that the burn ban typically stays on until after harvest season, due to the large farm vehicles in the fields, and unless there is a large amount of rain in the next month, the ban could go all the way until winter time.