{"id":284748,"date":"2026-05-26T14:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284748\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:34:08","slug":"cape-coral-lifts-burn-ban-as-drought-conditions-improve-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284748\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral lifts burn ban as drought conditions improve | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The city has lifted its temporary burn ban as drought conditions improve.<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral Fire Department officials announced the rescission of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/cape-coral-enforces-burn-ban-to-prevent-fire-hazards\/article_fedc018c-24cd-442f-a0c0-99fa18babcd1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">burn ban that was issued on Jan. 2<\/a>. The Keetch-Byram Drought Index has fallen below 600 due to recent and forecasted rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/lee\/cape-coral-burn-ban-persists-despite-weekend-rain-drought-conditions-linger\/article_0c06ac2e-620b-4b91-8fb5-bde9fb7d8302.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cape Coral burn ban persists despite weekend rain, drought conditions linger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Residents can now resume recreational and cooking fires, but must continue to use caution. All recreational fires must comply with the city&#8217;s Code of Ordinance for Recreational Burns.<\/p>\n<p>The regulations require fires to be at least 25 feet from any structure and kept to a maximum of 3 feet in diameter and 2 feet in height. An extinguishment source must be available, and recreational fires are not intended for vegetation or rubbish disposal.<\/p>\n<p>More information on burning regulations in Cape Coral can be found by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoralfire.com\/burn-regulations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The city has lifted its temporary burn ban as drought conditions improve. Cape&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,5681,211,210],"class_list":["post-284748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-fire-department","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284748","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=284748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}