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Fire Type
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Description
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Conditions you
need to follow for the fire type to be considered authorised
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Restricted
season
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Prohibited
season
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Gas-operated appliances
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Manufactured gas-operated appliances, such as barbeques, gas outdoor fireplaces and outdoor gas heaters.
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Find out more about the safe use of:
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Authorised
fire type
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Authorised
fire type
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Charcoal
barbeques
or grills
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Barbeques or grills that use either charcoal briquettes or natural lump charcoal as their fuel source.
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- Don’t use on an apartment balcony, deck, under a roof overhang or within other enclosed areas.
- You must have a suitable way to extinguish the fire within easy reach - a maximum of 5 metres away.
- You must not leave unsupervised while burning.
- If you cannot meet these conditions, you must apply for a permit.
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Authorised fire type
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Authorised fire type
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Open top liquid fuel cooker
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Examples include (but are not limited to) portable smokers.
These are usually small portable cooking devices that are liquid-fueled with an open fuel container either under or in the cooking device.
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- Must be on a non-combustible area/base.
- You must have a suitable way to extinguish the fire within easy reach a maximum of 5 metres away.
- Don’t light your fire within 3 metres of any part of a building, hedge, shelter belt or any other combustible material.
- You must not leave unsupervised while burning.
- If you cannot meet these conditions, you must apply for a permit.
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Authorised fire type
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Authorised fire type
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Non-pressurised liquid-fueled heaters
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Examples include (but are not limited to) frost pot, smudge pot, diesel heater.
Usually fueled by diesel, vegetable oil, kerosene or waste oil.
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- Must be at least 3 metres clear of any of any part of a building, hedge, shelter belt or any other combustible material.
- Must be placed on a non-combustible surface, not directly on grass or wooden decks.
- You must not use the heater in small, confined areas.
- If refuelling, ensure heater has cooled down before refilling.
- You must not leave unsupervised while burning.
- If you cannot meet these conditions, you must apply for a permit.
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Authorised fire type
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Authorised fire type
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Permanent outdoor fireplace
Wood-fired pizza oven/wood oven
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Purpose-built or manufactured woodburning fireplace/wood oven with an open front and a vertical smoke vent/chimney.
Generally constructed of concrete, concrete blocks, stone, or bricks, fixed in place (not mobile/movable).
Usually in home outdoor entertaining areas
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- Must have a non-combustible hearth or base that extends a minimum of 500 mm either side of the left and right edges and a minimum of 1 m from the front edge of the fire box. This is to stop any burning material falling from the fire box landing onto anything combustible.
- Smoke vent/chimneys must have a purpose-built manufactured cap, or maximum 5 mm steel mesh fitted in the top to stop any hot ash or embers from escaping.
- Firewood storage must be in areas not affected by heat from the fire and clear of any possible hot ash or ember-affected areas.
- You must have a suitable way to extinguish the fire within easy reach a maximum of 5 metres away.
- You must not leave unsupervised while burning, or
- It must have a solid or mesh screen/door, that prevents any burning material from escaping the fire box
- Fireplaces with external construction made of steel must be at least 1 metre clear of any of any part of a building, hedge, shelter belt or any other combustible material.
- If you cannot meet these conditions, you must apply for a permit.
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Authorised fire type
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Authorised fire type
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Movable/ portable free-standing front-loading fireplace
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Examples include (but are not limited to) chiminea.
A freestanding front-loading fireplace or oven usually with a bulbous body – usually has a vertical smoke vent or chimney
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- Don’t light your fire within three metres of any part of a building, hedge, shelter belt or any other combustible material.
- You must have a suitable way to extinguish that will easily reach it, a maximum of five metres away.
- You must not leave unsupervised while burning or
- It must have a solid or mesh screen/door that prevents any burning material from escaping the fire box.
- If you cannot meet these conditions, you must apply for a permit.
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Authorised fire type
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Authorised fire type
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Cultural cooking fires
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Examples include hāngï, umu, and lovo.
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- Your fire area must be less than 4 square metres.
- Don’t light your fire within 5 metres of any part of a building, hedge, shelter belt or any other combustible material.
- You must have a suitable way to extinguish it within easy reach a maximum of 5 metres from your cultural fire.
- You must not leave the fire unsupervised while burning.
- On completion of cooking or the purpose required for cooking food the fires must be extinguished.
- If you cannot meet these conditions, you must apply for a permit.
- Find out more about the safe use of cultural cooking fires.
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Authorised fire type
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Authorised fire type
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Braziers
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A container for hot coals – usually an upright standing or hanging metal bowl or box.
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- Your fire area must be less than one square metre.
- Where hot embers/ash are able to escape, there must be a non-combustible base/tray that will contain these hot embers/ash to prevent any risk of fire escaping.
- Don’t light your fire within three metres of any part of a building, hedge, shelter belt or any other combustible material.
- You must have a suitable way to extinguish it within easy reach a maximum of 5 metres from your brazier or fire pit/bowl.
- You must not leave unsupervised while burning.
- If you cannot meet these conditions, you must apply for a permit.
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Authorised fire type
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Prohibited fire type*
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| Fire pits/bowls (Recreational) |
A pit dug in the ground made from stone, brick or metal or a bowl on an upright stand.
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Authorised fire type
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Prohibited fire type*
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| Manufactured or drum incinerators |
A drum or container, with a mesh or solid lid designed to prevent the escape of hot ash or fire, often with a vertical smoke vent or chimney; designed exclusively for incineration. |
- Don’t light your fire within five metres of any part of a building, hedge, shelter belt or any other combustible material.
- You must have a suitable way to extinguish it within easy reach – a maximum of 5 metres from your incinerator.
- Smoke vent/chimneys must have a purpose-built manufactured cap or maximum 5 mm steel mesh fitted in the top to stop any hot ash or embers from escaping.
- If you cannot meet these conditions, you must apply for a permit.
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Authorised fire type
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Prohibited fire type*
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Campfires
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A fire (less than 0.5m diameter x 0.5m height) at a campsite that provides light and warmth, and heat for cooking.
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- You must comply with the conditions on your permit issued by Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
- Find out more about how to use campfires safely.
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Permit required
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Prohibited fire type*
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Bonfires
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A large, but controlled outdoor fire, used for recreation or celebration.
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- You must comply with the conditions on your permit issued by Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
- Find out about how to use bonfires safely.
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Permit required
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Prohibited fire type*
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Burn piles/pits
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Burning cut and stacked vegetation. Includes horticulture branch/piles, offal pits or land clearing heaps for disposing of burnable waste material.
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- You need to comply with the conditions on your permit issued by Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
- Find out more about how to use burn piles or pits safely.
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Permit required
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Prohibited fire type*
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Crop
residue/ stubble
burns
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Burning straw stubble or crop residue on fire that remains after wheat and other grains have been harvested.
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Permit required
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Prohibited fire type*
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Broadcast
land clearing
burns
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Fire applied generally to most or all of an area within well-defined boundaries to remove grass, scrub or forest cutover.
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- You must comply with the conditions on your permit issued by Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
- Find out about how to carry out land-clearning burns safely.
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Permit required
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Prohibited fire type*
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Windrows
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Burning of vegetation that is placed in long narrow rows, generally as a result of forest or scrub clearing.
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- You must comply with the conditions on your permit issued by Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
- Find out about how to carry out pile and windrow burns safely.
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Permit required
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Prohibited fire type*
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Other
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Fires not captured in other fire types.
Examples include but are not limited to: fires for biosecurity or public health, planned structure fires.
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- You must comply with the conditions on your permit issued by Fire and Emergency New Zealand.
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Permit required
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Prohibited fire type*
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