I have never heard of burning (indoors or out) being banned anywhere near here. Except out on the beaches, where the marshes could catch fire & burn up the multi-million $ homes & kill people. We do have very dry times when outdoor burning is highly regulated or banned.
Many of us set our lawns on fire annually to do a controlled burn off of the underbrush and heat the weed seeds up so that they don't germinate.
This avoids forest fires from the build up of too much underbrush (think California).
This also avoids putting pre-emergent weed killer (anti-fertilizer?) down, which can run off into the ground water, getting into our underground aquifers [some of the city's city water comes from there), getting into our salt water creeks & the fish, crabs, shrimp, oysters, etc that we eat, and getting into our fresh water river (the city's dominant water supply) which we drink.
The pre-emergent would also get into our fresh water rivers and their fish, and wildlife: deer (venison), feral pig, alligators, racoon, possums, squirrels, etc, that we also eat.
It looks to me like the choices are: have major forest fires (usually caused by lightning strikes and having lots of underbrush to burn) that take out whole communities, destroy people, wildlife, their habitats and poison the ground, also destroying wildlife, people and their habitats.
Or having controlled burns.
Alternatively, I guess, one could live in a big city, something I have wasted a few years doing several times in my life and have no intention of ever doing again.