{"id":219398,"date":"2026-03-25T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219398\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T07:54:15","slug":"burn-ban-to-continue-in-unincorporated-travis-county-amid-dry-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219398\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn ban to continue in unincorporated Travis County amid dry conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTravis County officials have extended a burn ban for unincorporated Travis County through April 28.<\/p>\n

The extended burn ban comes amid ongoing dry conditions that are expected to continue, Travis County Fire Marshal<\/a> Gary Howell said at a March 24 Travis County Commissioners Court<\/a> meeting.<\/p>\n

What you need to know<\/p>\n

A burn ban prohibits all outdoor burning in unincorporated Travis County, including:<\/p>\n

Open fires, such as brush burning and bonfiresOutdoor burning of trash, leaves or debrisCampfires and fire pits in nondesignated areasHow we got here<\/p>\n

This is the second time the county has extended a burn ban<\/a> that became effective Feb. 10. The initial burn ban<\/a> was put into effect after Travis County officials responded to 20-25 fires Feb. 7, Howell said at a Feb. 10 meeting.<\/p>\n

About 77% of Travis County is in an extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On March 22, a wildfire broke out at Bastrop State Park consuming at least 46 acres, according to previous Community Impact reporting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned<\/p>\n

Residents can receive burn ban status updates by texting TCBURNBAN to 888777.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Travis County officials have extended a burn ban for unincorporated Travis County through April 28. The extended burn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,85565,85561,85566,85563,85570,85562,85568,36488,85569,36489,85567,85564],"class_list":["post-219398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bastrop-state-park-wildfire","tag-burn-ban-april-2026","tag-burn-ban-rules-texas","tag-central-texas-drought-2026","tag-fire-safety-travis-county","tag-outdoor-burning-ban-travis-county","tag-texas-drought-conditions","tag-travis-county-burn-ban","tag-travis-county-commissioners-court-burn-ban","tag-travis-county-fire-marshal","tag-unincorporated-travis-county-burning-restrictions","tag-wildfire-risk-travis-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219398","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=219398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}