05/17/2023
Cape May is in Stage 3
🚫🔥SOUTHERN NJ - Stage 3 Fire Restrictions
COUNTIES: Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem
Stage 3 Fire Restrictions:
🚫🔥All fires in wooded areas are prohibited unless contained in an elevated stove using only propane, natural gas, gas, or electricity.
🚫🔥No charcoal fires are allowed.
🚩 Red Flag Warning in effect 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 17
🚫🔥 Fire Restrictions in Effect Statewide
US National Weather Service Philadelphia/Mount Holly has issued a Red Flag Warning for critical fire weather conditions in the Pinelands region of New Jersey – Atlantic, Northwestern Burlington, Southeastern Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Ocean counties.
Additionally, a Special Weather Statement for elevated risk of wildfire spread has been issued for all remaining counties in New Jersey.
A Red Flag Warning means that critical fire weather conditions are either occurring now, or will shortly due to a combination of strong winds, low relative humidity, and dry fuels. Any fires that develop may quickly get out of control and become difficult to contain.
🔗 Learn more: https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=PHI&wwa=red%20flag%20warning
FIRE RESTRICTIONS:
🚫🔥NORTHERN NJ - Stage 2 Fire Restrictions
COUNTIES: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Warren, Hopewell Township in Mercer County, Union, Hunterdon, Middlesex (north of Raritan River)
🚫🔥 CENTRAL NJ - Stage 3 Fire Restrictions
COUNTIES: Burlington, Monmouth, Ocean, Middlesex (south of the Raritan River), Mercer County except Hopewell Township
🚫🔥SOUTHERN NJ - Stage 3 Fire Restrictions
COUNTIES: Atlantic, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Salem
Stage 3 Fire Restrictions:
🚫🔥All fires in wooded areas are prohibited unless contained in an elevated stove using only propane, natural gas, gas, or electricity.
🚫🔥No charcoal fires are allowed.
Stage 2 Fire Restrictions:
🚫🔥All fires in wooded areas will be prohibited unless in an elevated prepared fireplace, elevated charcoal grill or stove using electricity or a liquid or gas fuel.
✅An elevated prepared fireplace must meet the following criteria: constructed of steel, stone, brick or concrete, elevated at least one foot above the ground and surrounded by a mineral soil radius no less than ten feet
STATEWIDE FIRE DANGER:
🔗 View current New Jersey fire danger levels: https://www.nj.gov/dep/parksandforests/fire/infotools/conditions-restrictions.html
