ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 A burn ban has been ordered for unincorporated areas of Orange County and any municipalities under Orange County Fire Rescue services, including Edgewood, Belle Isle, Oakland, and Eatonville. <\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n This comes as the Keetch-Byram Drought Index (KBDI)<\/a> either meets or exceeds 500, at which point a burn ban is immediately issued under Orange County\u2019s Fire Prevention and Protection Ordinance. <\/p>\n The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services<\/a> classifies the KBDI as \u201ca continuous reference scale for estimating the dryness of the soil and duff layers.\u201d <\/p>\n READ: Heavy rain needed to combat Central Florida\u2019s longstanding drought<\/a><\/p>\n The index goes up each day there is no recorded rain and goes down whenever it does rain. \u201cThe scale,\u201d according to the FDACS, \u201cranges from 0 (no moisture deficit) to 800.\u201d<\/p>\n Currently, in Orange County, the KBDI is averaging between 500 and 549<\/a>.<\/p>\n The instituted burn ban \u201cprohibits all outdoor burning, unless a permit has been issued; recreational open burning such as campfires, ceremonial bonfires, outdoor fireplaces, and\/or open flame heating devices; burning of yard waste, debris, trash, and other materials.\u201d<\/p>\n Violators can face fire extinguishing and enforcement action by Orange County officials.<\/p>\n The burn ban will be lifted once the KBDI falls below 500 for seven consecutive days. For more information on the ban, you can visit Orange County websites and social media pages.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 A burn ban has been ordered for unincorporated areas of Orange County and any municipalities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[50304,87461,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-304411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-ocfr","tag-orange-county-fire","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304411","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=304411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}