‘Tis the season for cleaning and burning yard waste and before you start the fire, you might want to know what your communities burn ordinance is before hand.

The reason being: what you don’t know about burning yard waste might get you a ticket or worse yet setting something you don’t want burned on fire.

This spring, there have been several brush fires in the area already.

To help you (and our fire departments) out, here’s a list of burn regulations for east of the I communities.

 

Denise Lockwood has an extensive background in traditional and non-traditional media. She has written for Patch.com, the Milwaukee Business Journal, Milwaukee Magazine and the Kenosha News.