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By Order of Adams County Sheriff Gene Claps, unincorporated Adams County will move to Stage 1 Fire Restrictions effective immediately until further notice. View restrictions.

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Fire Restrictions

July 23, 2026 at 11:30 a.m.

Stage 1 Fire Restrictions

By Order of Adams County Sheriff Gene Clapps, unincorporated Adams County will move to Stage 1 Fire Restrictions effective immediately until further notice.

General Guidance on Stage 1 restrictions follows below:

Prohibited Activities:

  • Open burning of any kind.
  • Use of fireworks.

Allowable Activities:

  • Fires within liquid-fueled or gas-fueled stoves, fireplaces within buildings, charcoal grill fires within developed residential or commercial areas, and fires within wood burning stoves within buildings only.
  • Professional fireworks displays permitted according to section 12-28-103 of the C.R.S.
  • Fire suppression or fire department training fires.
  • Small recreational fires at developed picnic or campground sites contained in fixed permanent metal/steel fire pits (rock fire rings are considered temporary and not permanent) with flame lengths not in excess of four feet or the residential use of charcoal grills, tiki torches, fires in chimineas or other portable fireplaces or patio fire pits, so long as said fires are supervised by a responsible person at least 18 years of age.

July 1, 2026 at 4:15 p.m.

Stage 2 Fire Restrictions

Effective immediately, Sheriff Claps has ordered Stage 2 fire restrictions for unincorporated Adams County.

This is due to a prolonged pattern of extreme heat, winds of 10 mph-20mph and forecasted 5% or less humidity. These conditions are expected to continue into next week.

During Stage 2 fire restrictions:

  • Open burning is prohibited
  • Burn permits are suspended, and previously authorized burning is not allowed.
  • All fireworks are illegal in unincorporated Adams County, with the exception of permitted professional fireworks displays. This includes personal use of fireworks.

The following acts are also prohibited:

  • Building, maintaining, attending, or using a fire, campfire, coal or wood-burning stove, any type of charcoal-fueled broiler or open fire of any type.
  • Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building.
  • Using explosive material: (i.e.: fireworks, blasting caps or any incendiary device which may result in the ignition of flammable material.
  • Welding, or operating an acetylene or other similar torch with open flame.
  • Operating or using any internal combustion engine without a spark-arresting device properly installed, maintained and in effective working order meeting either:
  • Operating a chainsaw without a chemical pressurized fire extinguisher of not less than 8 ounces capacity by weight, and one size 0 or larger round pointed shovel with an overall length of at least 36 inches. The extinguisher shall be with the chainsaw operator. The shovel may be kept with the fueling supplies, but readily available.

These fire restrictions will be reviewed daily and could change depending on the weather conditions.