East Texas Burn Bans 2025. East texas counties under burn ban when areas experience extended periods of hot, dry, windy weather, counties implement bans on outdoor burning as a wildfire prevention tool. While burn bans have been enacted in the central and western portions of texas for some time now, east texas saw three counties enact burn bans for the 2024 fire season.

Upshur and marion counties lifted their bans thursday after light rainfall in the region,. In 2023, the drying period began earlier causing burn bans to pop up across east texas as e…