The end of the outdoor burning season in Lane County is coming sooner than residents might have expected.
Travis Knudsen of the Lane Regional Air Protection Agency said hotter, drier, weather has prompted authorities to end outdoor burning Friday. That’s almost two weeks earlier than LRAPA rules that put the end date at June 15.
“The Oregon Department of Forestry as well as the Lane Fire Defense Board have the authority to close the season early if they believe that wildfire or fire risk warrants that closure," said Knudsen. "And for this year, 2023, they certainly feel that our fire danger is high enough to prompt an early closure to the burning season.”
People with unburned debris after June 2 can either bring it to a Lane County collection depot, or sort it into covered piles away from residences and other manmade structures.
The fall burning season is still expected to start October 1, although that date has been pushed back by several weeks in each of the past three years.
