Kansas Campfire Rules and Burn Bans, With Live Fire Weather
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks sets the campfire rules for Kansas's state parks. Check the state forestry or fire agency and the local fire department for a burn ban before you light anything. Live National Weather Service fire weather alerts for Kansas load on the page.
Fire weather alerts in Kansas right now
Live from the National Weather Service
Checking for fire weather alerts in Kansas...
The campfire rule in Kansas
The campfire rule is at Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. Ask the local fire department about a burn ban before you light anything.
Quoted from pages read October 18, 2026. A county, a national forest or a single park can order a stricter ban than the state, so ask the local fire department or ranger district before you light a fire.
Camping in Kansas
The Kansas camping guide has the months when the weather works, how Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks books sites, the rule for camping outside a campground and a live weekend forecast for your campsite.
Kansas campfire questions
Campfire rules in other states
Where this page’s facts come from
- State park, forestry and federal land pages (read October 18, 2026). Booking windows, reservation systems, campfire rules, fire restriction sources and rules for camping outside a campground, each quoted word for word with a link to the page it came from.
- NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991 to 2020 (read October 18, 2026). Average monthly high, low and nights at or below 32 F at 150 reference stations, the same stations the heat season and heating season pages use.
- National Weather Service alerts (live, read in your browser when the page loads). Red Flag Warnings, Fire Weather Watches, Fire Warnings, Freeze Warnings and High Wind Warnings, read live from api.weather.gov.
- National Weather Service 7 day forecast (live, read in your browser when the page loads). The weekend forecast for the ZIP code a visitor enters, read live from api.weather.gov.