{"id":1231,"date":"2025-10-13T22:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/1231\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:13:08","slug":"fort-bend-county-commissioners-issue-burn-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/1231\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Bend County commissioners issue burn ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFort Bend County officials are imposing a burn ban in all unincorporated areas of the county following the Texas A&amp;M Forest Service&#8217;s report of worsening drought conditions across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Zooming in<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners unanimously approved the ban at an Oct. 13 special meeting, making Fort Bend County one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/tfsfrp.tamu.edu\/WILDFIRES\/DECBAN.PDF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">121 counties across Texas<\/a> to impose a burn ban, according to the Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p>The state is currently at a <a href=\"https:\/\/tfsweb.tamu.edu\/wildfire-and-other-disasters\/current-wildfire-status\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Level 3<\/a> wildfire preparedness level, which means wildfire activity is impacting several regions of the state as a result of drought, dry vegetation or frequent fire weather events.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>However, Fort Bend County Fire Marshal Justin Jurek said the burn ban will not impact the Diwali firework sale season, which started Oct. 13 and ends Oct. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead<\/p>\n<p>The ban will last up to 90 days, until rescinded by commissioners or until the Forest Service determines drought conditions no longer exist, according to agenda documents.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Bend County officials are imposing a burn ban in all unincorporated areas of the county following the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[441,1886,27,1887,29,28],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-fort-bend-county","tag-justin-jurek","tag-texas","tag-texas-am-forest-service","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}