South Dakota Campfire Rules and Burn Bans, With Live Fire Weather
South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks sets the campfire rules for South Dakota's state parks. Burn bans and fire restrictions are posted by South Dakota Department of Agriculture, Division of Wildland Fire. Live National Weather Service fire weather alerts for South Dakota load on the page.
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Burn bans and restrictions: South Dakota Department of Agriculture, Division of Wildland Fire.
The campfire rule in South Dakota
Campfires on national forest and BLM land
No open campfires in South Dakota portions of the national forest.USFS, read October 18, 2026. Read it at the source
Where fire restrictions are posted
Burning restrictions may be enacted by the counties due to dry conditions.Fish and Parks, read October 18, 2026. Read it at the source
Current restrictions: South Dakota Department of Agriculture, Division of Wildland Fire.
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 South Dakota
The South Dakota camping guide has the months when the weather works, how South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks books sites, the rule for camping outside a campground and a live weekend forecast for your campsite.
South Dakota campfire questions
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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.