{"id":285361,"date":"2026-05-26T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285361\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T23:07:10","slug":"cape-coral-rescinds-burn-ban-after-drought-monitor-shows-improved-conditions-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285361\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral rescinds burn ban after drought monitor shows improved conditions | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A drop in the Keetch-Byram Drought Index to below 600 and has prompted the City of Cape Coral to lift the temporary burn ban issued on January 2.<\/p>\n

The Cape Coral Fire Department issued the rescission notice Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Residents are urged to continue to use caution with recreation and cooking fires.<\/p>\n

Recreational fires must comply with city codes keeping 25-feet from any structure and having an extinguishment source. Any such fire must be kept to a maximum of 3-feet in diameter and 2-feet in height.<\/p>\n

Recreational fires are not intended for vegetation or rubbish disposal.<\/p>\n

More information on burning in the City of Cape Coral can be found at: www.capecoralfire.com\/burn-regulations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0donate\u00a0<\/a>now. Thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drop in the Keetch-Byram Drought Index to below 600 and has prompted the City of Cape Coral…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-285361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285361","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=285361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}