A fire ban got underway this week in 54 counties of Georgia, according to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.

The ban is in place until Sept. 30 to help diminish air issues surrounding ozone pollutants, according to a release from the Georgia Forestry Commission.

The ban does allow for campfires, cooking fires and some agriculture burns in those counties located mostly in north and central Georgia.

The ban forbids such fires as burning debris in yards and land clearing burns.

The counties in the ban are Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Columbia, Coweta, Crawford, Dawson, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Fulton, Gordon, Gwinnett, Hall, Haralson, Heard, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Jasper, Jones, Lamar, Lumpkin, Madison, Meriwether, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Paulding, Peach, Pickens, Pike, Polk, Putnam, Richmond, Rockdale, Spalding, Troup, Twiggs, Upson, Walker and Walton.