Kentucky Campfire Rules and Burn Bans, With Live Fire Weather
Kentucky State Parks sets the campfire rule for Kentucky's state parks and forests. Burn bans and fire restrictions are posted by Kentucky Division of Forestry. Live National Weather Service fire weather alerts for Kentucky load on the page.
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Burn bans and restrictions: Kentucky Division of Forestry.
The campfire rule in Kentucky
Campfires in state parks and forests
Fires shall be restricted to fire rings in designated areas only and shall be attended at all times.Kentucky State Parks, read October 18, 2026. Read it at the source
Where fire restrictions are posted
The following is a list of counties and/or cities with a burn ban in effect. These are the counties and/or cities known to the division.Kentucky Division of Forestry, read October 18, 2026. Read it at the source
Current restrictions: Kentucky Division of Forestry.
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 Kentucky
The Kentucky camping guide has the months when the weather works, how Kentucky State Parks books sites, the rule for camping outside a campground and a live weekend forecast for your campsite.
Kentucky 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.