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Charcoal grill near park pavilion picnic area

Weather

Denton County Lifted Its Burn Ban October 5. Charcoal Grills and Fire Pits at Flower Mound Parks Are Back.

Six weeks of no campfires and no charcoal is over — at least on the Denton side of the county line.

2 min · 2026-10-07

Dry, brown grass under a hazy summer sky in North Texas

Public Safety

Burn Ban Is In Effect. No Backyard Fires, No Hot Work, No Fireworks.

Denton and Tarrant counties went under mandatory burn bans Monday. Here's exactly what you can't do — and a free family event at the library this afternoon to take the edge off a long, hot week.

3 min · 2026-08-27

A mosquito surveillance trap set up in a residential backyard near a drainage area

Public Safety

111 Positive Mosquito Traps, Two Human Cases — West Nile Is Circulating on Both Sides of Flower Mound

Denton confirmed one case and 25 positive traps; Tarrant confirmed one neuroinvasive case and 86 — and Flower Mound sits in the middle.

3 min · 2026-07-26