What's the consensus on burnouts?

I think you would have to find a privately owned property. Doubt the PD would approve of it on public property.
Back in high school we used to go to the school at night and do donuts and burnouts at the "driving range" behind the school. It was a big asphalt circle with a fence around it where they would tech drivers ed. We did that for a couple years until they caught on and started locking the fence. Good times. After that we started doing it in an industrial park at night. Nobody was around and we could see and hear the cops coming WAY before they were close. Never got caught but they tried like hell.