---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 261.5"
title: "36"
number: "261.5"
heading: "Fire."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/261.5"
---

# §261.5. Fire.


The following are prohibited:

- (a) Carelessly or negligently throwing or placing any ignited substance or other substance that may cause a fire.
- (b) **Firing any tracer bullet or incendiary ammunition.**
- (c) **Causing timber, trees, slash, brush or grass to burn except as authorized by permit.**
- (d) **Leaving a fire without completely extinguishing it.**
- (e) Causing and failing to maintain control of a fire that is not a prescribed fire that damages the National Forest System.
- (f) Building, attending, maintaining, or using a campfire without removing all flammable material from around the campfire adequate to prevent its escape.
- (g) Negligently failing to maintain control of a prescribed fire on Non-National Forest System lands that damages the National Forest System.
- (h) **Possessing or using an exploding target or any kind of firework or other pyrotechnic device.**
- (i) Violating any State law concerning burning or fires or any State law that is for the purpose of preventing or restricting the spread of fire.
- (j) Operating or using any internal or external combustion engine without a spark arresting device that is properly installed, maintained, and in effective working order in accordance with USDA Forest Service Standard 5100-1.

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, as amended at 46 FR 33520, June 30, 1981; 73 FR 30307, May 27, 2008; 89 FR 92815, Nov. 25, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1011(f); 16 U.S.C. 460l-6d, 472, 551, 620(f), 1133(c)-(d)(1), 1246(i).

### Source

Source: 42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, as amended at 46 FR 33520, June 30, 1981; 73 FR 30307, May 27, 2008; 89 FR 92815, Nov. 25, 2024]