How to Dig a Pit for a Campfire: Online Guide to Camping & Fire Safety

Video Transcript

"Welcome Back. I’m Brian on behalf of expertvillage.com. We are going to start building our fire pit now. The first step is to dig a ring, a pit about six inches deep. We are going to size this for a fire that would be suitable for about two people. So it’s going to be approximately 2 feet in diameter. From approximately here to approximately here, and like I said we are going to dig this down about 6 inches to give our fire pit a good base. As well, as help control any embers jumping out of the fire and potentially causing fires in the forest. So let us begin. Now that we have finished digging our hole, we are ready to move on to selecting and picking rocks to make the ring around the fire area. "