As drought-like conditions continue to plague the majority of Ohio, more burn bans have appeared across Greater Cincinnati.
The Ohio State Fire Marshall announced in a news release Friday that a burn ban, first ordered on Sept. 13, was further extended to nine additional counties mostly in the southwest region of the state, including Warren, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Logan, Miami, Montgomery and Union.
This adds to the 28 total of southeast and central Ohio counties that were listed in the first order, which included Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Fairfield, Fayette, Gallia, Guernsey, Harrison, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Jefferson, Lawrence, Madison, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Muskingum, Noble, Perry, Pike, Ross, Tuscarawas, Vinton and Washington counties.
The ban impacts any county identified by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or United States Department of Agriculture as being in the “extreme” drought or “exceptional” drought categories as identified by the United States Drought Monitoring System , according to the release.