Henderson County Commissioners End Burn Ban

Henderson County Commissioners’ Court denied Fire Marshal Shane Renberg request for a burn ban Tuesday, Sept. 16.

The vote was 3-2 to deny the request with County Judge Richard Sanders and Commissioners Wade McKinney and Ronny Lawrence voting no.

Renberg said the drought numbers have gone up across the whole county I’m the past two weeks. Rain has helped, he said, but it hasn’t been the sort of rain that helps break the dry spell.

Lawrence said there has been a lot of rain at his house and indicated he was still upset that he was denied a controlled burn during last year’s burn ban.

Sanders and McKinney did not say why they voted to deny the request.

Renberg said the county’s average Keetch-Byram Drought Index score was 623. The KBDI is a measure of moisture in the soil, and a burn ban is recommended when the KBDI score is above 575.