---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 261.52"
title: "36"
number: "261.52"
heading: "Fire."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/261.52"
---

# §261.52. Fire.


When provided by an order, the following are prohibited:

- (a) **Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, or stove fire.**
- (b) **Using an explosive.**
- (c) **Smoking.**
- (d) Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, at a recreation site, or while stopped in an area at least 3 feet in diameter that is barren or cleared of all flammable material.
- (e) **Entering or being in an area.**
- (f) **Entering an area without any firefighting tool prescribed by the order.**
- (g) **Operating an internal combustion engine.**
- (h) **Welding or operating an acetylene or other torch with open flame.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[89 FR 92816, 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

[89 FR 92816, Nov. 25, 2024]