• Burning shall be prohibited between the hours of 12:00 (midnight) and 9:00 a.m. during any day of the week.
• Only clean wood or charcoal may be burned. No burning of trash, leaves or brush is allowed. "Wood" means dry clean fuel only such as twigs, branches, limbs, commercially made logs for heating, charcoal, cord wood or untreated lumber.
• The fire must be ignited with an approved starter fuel. "Starter Fuels" mean dry, untreated, unpainted wood or charcoal fire starter. Paraffin candles and alcohols are permitted as starter fuels and as aids to ignition only. Propane gas torches or other clean gas burning devices causing minimal pollution may be used to start an open fire.
• The fire shall not exceed three (3) feet in diameter and a flame height of approximately two (2) feet and has had the ground five (5) feet from the base of the fire cleared of all combustible material.
• The fire must not be conducted within twenty-five (25) feet of a structure or combustible material. This distance may be reduced to within fifteen (15) feet of a structure or combustible material when contained in an outdoor fireplace* or container approved by the Fire Chief.
• Any condition that could cause a fire to spread to within twenty-five (25) feet of a structure shall be removed prior to ignition.
• Recreational fires are not permitted on windy days when smoke may create a nuisance.
• The Fire should be constantly attended by an adult person knowledgeable in the use of fire extinguishing equipment and an adult attendant supervises the fire until the fire has been totally extinguished.
• Fire extinguishing equipment such as a fire extinguisher, garden hose, water filled buckets, shovel or similar means to smother the fire must be readily available.

No recreational fire will be permitted when the city or Minnesota DNR has officially declared a "burning ban" due to potential fire conditions or when Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has declared an air quality alert (Air Quality Index of 90 or above.)

Be a good neighbor. Ask your neighbor if they have any objection to your recreation fire, and let them know you won't have a fire if any smoke would go into their property. If residents in the area are complaining of smoke, the fire department will request you to extinguish the fire.

*"Outdoor Fire Place" means a manufactured freestanding fire pit or barbecue pit approved and listed by a nationally recognized agency such as Underwriters Laboratories (UL) for the purpose of recreational fires that is enclosed with spark arresting screening and is used per the manufacturer's instructions.