{"id":164995,"date":"2026-03-16T14:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/164995\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:39:09","slug":"to-limit-wildfire-risk-new-yorks-burn-ban-is-now-in-effect-until-may-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/164995\/","title":{"rendered":"To limit wildfire risk, New York&#8217;s burn ban is now in effect until May 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a class=\"noslideshow fancybox\" data-fancybox=\"\" title=\"Smoke rises from Panther Mountain after wildfire outbreak. Photo: NYSDEC\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Smoke_rises_from_Panther_Mountain_after_wildfire_outbreak.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Smoke_rises_from_Panther_Mountain_after_wildfire_outbreak.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smoke rises from Panther Mountain after wildfire outbreak. Photo: NYSDEC<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fullscreen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/53162\/20260316\/to-limit-wildfire-risk-new-york-s-burn-ban-is-now-in-effect-until-may-14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mar 16, 2026 \u2014 <\/p>\n<p>The statewide burn ban went into effect today.\u00a0 From now until mid-May, it\u2019s illegal to have an open brush fire at your property.<\/p>\n<p>According to the state, burning brush is the largest cause of wildfires each spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of us are looking forward to spring weather after a very cold winter, but with the warming temperatures comes increased fire risk,\u201d\u202fCommissioner Lefton said.\u202f<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re once again asking all New Yorkers to abide by the two-month-long burn ban. The more careful you are with fire, the better we can protect our communities and natural resources as well as our Forest Rangers and firefighters across the state.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The number of wildfires has dropped by more than 40% since the state started banning spring brush fires in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>You are still allowed to have campfires this time of year, as long as they are less than three feet high and four feet wide. You can also have small cooking fires, but any outdoor fire must be attended to until it&#8217;s extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>The burn ban is in effect in New York from now until May 14th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke rises from Panther Mountain after wildfire outbreak. Photo: NYSDEC Mar 16, 2026 \u2014 The statewide burn ban&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2312,67304,2586,545,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-164995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-adirondacks","tag-burn-ban","tag-dec","tag-fire","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}