Fort Worth watering schedule 2026

It depends on the last digit of your house number. Residential addresses ending in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8 water on Wednesday and Saturday. Addresses ending in 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9 water on Thursday and Sunday. Monday is not a watering day for anyone (City Code Section 35-151(a)(2) and the Fort Worth Water schedule).

Yes. Section 35-151(a)(2) puts all nonresidential locations, which it says include apartment complexes, businesses, industries, parks and street medians, on Tuesday and Friday. The even and odd days are for residential addresses. Fort Worth Water's schedule lists apartments under its non-residential sites too.

On your assigned day, from 12 midnight to 10 a.m. and from 6 p.m. to 11:59 p.m. Section 35-151(b) bans lawn and landscape watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on every day of the year. Fort Worth Water warns that a system set to water at or near midnight can run into the next day, one of the common causes of its violation notices.

Section 35-151(a)(1) takes a handheld hose, drip irrigation, a soaker hose and a tree bubbler out of the day and hour limits. Fort Worth Water says a rotary or oscillating sprinkler on the end of a hose does not count as hand watering, and that drip is meant only for foundations, trees and other high value plants.

Section 35-155, as amended in November 2025, has the water director send a written warning first. After that, administrative fees go on your water bill: $25.00, then $50.00, then $75.00, per the Fort Worth Water fee table. Continued violations bring a citation and a lock-out of the irrigation system or meter. Each day of violation counts separately, and you can request a hearing within 15 business days of the notice.

No drought stage declaration was found on Fort Worth Water pages. The twice-weekly schedule is a permanent rule of the City Code. The 2024 Drought Contingency and Emergency Water Management Plan lets the City Manager order stricter stages: Stage 2 limits sprinklers to once a week, and Stage 3 bans landscape watering except by hand-held hose, soaker hose or drip.

Only with a variance. Section 35-151(g)(2) lets the water director grant variances to establish hydromulch, grass sod or grass seed for new lawns, and Section 35-151(g)(3) requires every petition in writing. Fort Worth Water takes requests through its Irrigation Schedule Variance form. Keep to your regular days until the city confirms the variance.

Not directly. Fort Worth Water sells water wholesale to 33 customers, such as Burleson, Keller, Haltom City and Southlake. Each city bills and enforces its own ordinance, and the drought plan lets them use a different twice-a-week schedule. If your bill does not come from Fort Worth Water, follow your own city's days.