{"id":454665,"date":"2026-10-02T21:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454665\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:56:07","slug":"nueces-county-lifts-burn-ban-effective-friday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454665\/","title":{"rendered":"Nueces County lifts burn ban effective Friday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NUECES COUNTY, Texas \u2014 The outdoor burn ban in unincorporated areas of Nueces County will be lifted Friday evening after county officials determined conditions have improved.<\/p>\n<p>Connie Scott, Nueces County judge, signed an order Friday rescinding the county\u2019s burn ban effective at 5 p.m. Oct. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The burn ban was originally authorized by the Nueces County Commissioners Court on Aug. 19 after officials determined conditions in unincorporated parts of the county posed a public safety hazard that could be worsened by outdoor burning.<\/p>\n<p>The original order prohibited outdoor burning through midnight Oct. 17 but also authorized Connie Scott to end the ban early if conditions improved.<\/p>\n<p>According to Friday\u2019s order, Connie Scott determined conditions in unincorporated areas of Nueces County no longer pose the public safety hazard that prompted the restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The burn ban is therefore rescinded beginning at 5 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest local news updates, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>, or download the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/about-us\/kris-6-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News App.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catch all the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KRIS6News\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KRIS 6 News stories and more on our YouTube page<\/a>. Subscribe today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NUECES COUNTY, Texas \u2014 The outdoor burn ban in unincorporated areas of Nueces County will be lifted Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,5790],"class_list":["post-454665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-nueces-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454665","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=454665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}