{"id":148745,"date":"2026-02-09T11:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148745\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:49:07","slug":"treasure-coast-counties-impose-burn-bans-amid-dry-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/148745\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasure Coast counties impose burn bans amid dry conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 South Florida is experiencing extremely dry conditions due to a lack of rain, prompting several local counties to implement<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-news-mandatory-burn-ban-issued-indian-river-county-wildfire-conditions-state-emergency-florida-fire-florida-forest-service\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-news-mandatory-burn-ban-issued-indian-river-county-wildfire-conditions-state-emergency-florida-fire-florida-forest-service\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> burn bans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Indian%20River%20County\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Indian%20River%20County\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian River<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/St.lucie%20County\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/St.lucie%20County\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Lucie<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Okeechobee%2C%20Florida\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Okeechobee%2C%20Florida\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Okeechobee<\/a> counties have all enacted bans on fires, including campfires, bonfires, and the burning of yard waste. <\/p>\n<p>In St. Lucie County, officials are issuing agricultural permits on a case-by-case basis. <\/p>\n<p>Violating the burn ban in Okeechobee County could result in a $500 fine, 60 days in jail, or both. <\/p>\n<p>These burn bans will remain in effect until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 South Florida is experiencing extremely dry conditions due to a lack of rain, prompting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[71961,12119,71962,17981,1277,171,173,172,807,14458,179],"class_list":["post-148745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-burn-bans","tag-dry-conditions","tag-fire-restrictions","tag-indian-river","tag-okeechobee","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-south-florida","tag-st-lucie","tag-treasure-coast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}