Burn permits, fully automated
Residents register and pay online, activate their burn in the app — or by calling a local automated phone line, and your department sees every active burn on a live map. Drastically increase compliance — without adding a single phone call to your front desk.
No monthly fees · Credits never expire · Setup included
Campfires, burn piles, fireworks — one system
Every kind of open-air burning your bylaw covers gets its own permit type, rules, fees and season. Pair them with approved and restricted zones and the system enforces where each kind of fire is allowed — automatically. That's how compliance climbs across your city or township: when the legal way is the easy way, residents take it.
Campfires
Recreational fires with their own rules and risk thresholds — backyard fire pits, campsites and cooking fires.
Large Burn Piles
Brush and agricultural burns with approval workflows, so the big fires only happen where and when they should.
Fireworks
Permit and track fireworks with the dates, locations and conditions your bylaw requires.
Vacation Permits
Short-term permits for cottagers, campers and seasonal residents.
Agricultural Burns
Field, crop and land-clearing burns for farms — with the seasons, conditions and approvals your bylaw sets.
Burn Barrels
Household burn barrels registered and tracked like everything else — so the smoke down the road is never a mystery.
These are just the common ones — we customize the system to whatever permit types your bylaw supports, each with its own rules, fees, approvals and season.
Fewer false alarms. Real compliance.
Most "structure fire" calls in rural townships turn out to be someone's brush pile. When every legal burn is registered and mapped, your department stops rolling trucks at permitted fires — and residents actually follow the rules, because following them takes two minutes.
- Live burn mapevery activated burn plotted in real time, zoomable to the property
- Risk levels & total banschange the risk level once — the website, phone line and app all update instantly
- Instant revocationrevoke a violator's permit with one click, with a full audit log
- Who's Responding integrationresponders see permitted burns right in the app before they respond
Everything a modern burn permit program needs
The Burn Permits App
The #1 way residents use the system — register a permit, check today's risk level and activate burns right from their phone.
Learn more →100% Online Registration
The whole permit process — application, approval, payment and a printable PDF permit — happens on your dedicated website.
Learn more →Automated Phone System
A local number answers 24/7 — residents hear the current risk level and log their burn by phone. Zero hardware, zero staff time.
Learn more →Real-Time Burn Mapping
See exactly who is burning right now on a live map — before you roll trucks at a column of permitted smoke.
Learn more →Risk Levels & Burn Bans
Set today's burn risk in one place. The website, phone line, app and alerts all reflect it instantly — including complete bans.
Learn more →Flexible Alerting
Notify permit holders by text, email or automated phone call — filtered by location or permit type. Risk changes, bans, renewals.
Learn more →Get Paid Online
Take debit, credit and bank payments through PayPal, Square, Moneris, Paymentus or UniPay — funds land in your account instantly and securely.
Learn more →Built by the team behind Who's Responding
The same platform trusted by emergency responders across North America since 2015 — now running your burn permit program.
From application to ashes out — hands-free
The system runs the entire permit lifecycle for you: registration, payment, daily activation, risk levels and alerts.
Residents register online
They apply on your dedicated burn permit website, pay by card or PayPal, and instantly receive a printable PDF permit. No computer? Your staff can register them in-house.
They activate before they burn
Before lighting up, permit holders tap Activate in the Burn Permits app — or call your local automated number if they prefer. The system checks the current risk level and logs exactly who is burning, where, and when.
Your department sees everything
Every activated burn appears on a real-time map — so dispatch and responding crews know a call-in on that address is a permitted burn, not an emergency.
Your own system, turn-key
Every BurnPermits.com customer gets a complete, branded burn permit operation — no servers to run, no software to install.
- Burn Permits mobile appresidents register, check the risk level and activate burns right from their phone
- Dedicated public websiteyour own burn permit site where residents register, pay and activate burns
- Automated phone systema local number included — residents check status and register their intent to burn
- Web-based admin panelmanage permits, approvals, risk levels, alerts and reporting from any browser
- Real-time burn mapa live, zoomable map of every resident burning right now
What is the manual work costing you?
Issuing permits, answering “can I burn today?” calls, chasing payments, updating lists — it adds up. Tell us what your program takes today and see what automating it gives back.
Your program today
Assumes the system automates about 90% of manual permit work, and a typical permit uses ~40 credits a season (issuing, activations, alerts) priced from our real credit packages. No monthly fees.
Your estimated savings
Those hours don't disappear from your payroll — they go back into inspections, prevention, and everything else your staff never has time for.
See It in a DemoSee it running on your township in one demo
We'll walk you through the resident experience, the admin panel and the live map — and answer every question your council or chief will ask.
Schedule a DemoNo monthly fees · Pay only for what you use · Credits never expire