Fire Weather & Fire Danger

Daily fire weather and fire danger rating information are available throughout fire season from March to

November

• Visit the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation Monitoring Fire Danger

  webpage at: https://fpr.vermont.gov/forest/wildland-fire/monitoring-fire-danger

• Follow @VTFireDanger on Twitter

• Visit the National Weather Service Fire Weather Pages
  o Burlington, VT at http://www.weather.gov/btv/firewx (802-658-0207)
  o Albany, NY at http:// www.weather.gov/aly/fire (518-435-9575) for Bennington and

  Windham Counties

• Visit the Vermont Emergency Management daily situation report at:

  http://demhs.vermont.gov/contact-us/daily

• In the event of a Red Flag Warning, an announcement will be made to all fire departments by VT-ALERT (to receive emergency alerts, create an account at this link:https://member.everbridge.net/index/453003085617457#/signup) and will be headlined in the Vermont Fire Weather/Danger Forecast.

VT FIRE WARDEN WEBSITE (BACKYARD BURNING PAGE)- https://dec.vermont.gov/air-quality/compliance/open-burning/backyard-burning

This link has other links to other information on BACKYARD BURNING as well as links to the Environmental Enforcement Officer for trash burning complaints.

BACKYARD BURNING- https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/aqc/compliance/documents/BYBFactsheet.pdf

BACKYARD BURNING RULES- https://dec.vermont.gov/sites/dec/files/aqc/compliance/documents/openburnPOSTER.pdf