5 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Wright County, Minnesota.
Verified from official government sources
A recreational fire under three feet by three feet needs no permit anywhere in Wright County. Buffalo, Monticello, and St. Michael require clean wood only, a setback from buildings, constant supervision, and no burning during a ban.
Minnesota bans all aerial and explosive consumer fireworks. Only ground-based sparklers, cones, fountains, snakes, and smoke devices are legal in Wright County. Firecrackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles, and mortars are illegal statewide.
MN Stat. §624.20, subd. 1(c)
wire or wood sparklers of not more than 100 grams of mixture per item, other sparkling items which are nonexplosive and nonaerial and contain 75 grams or less of chemical mixture per tube or a total of 500 grams or less for multiple tubes, snakes and glow worms, smoke devices, or trick noisemakers which include paper streamers, party poppers, string poppers, snappers, and drop pops, each consis...
Minnesota sets no homeowner defensible-space mandate. Wright County and its cities require vacant lots and yards kept free of overgrowth under property-maintenance and weed codes. Grass-fire risk peaks in spring before green-up.
Burning brush or yard waste in Wright County townships requires a Minnesota DNR open-burn permit. Buffalo, Monticello, and St. Michael restrict or ban open burning. Garbage, plastic, and treated wood may never be burned.
MN Stat. §88.17, subd. 1(a)
Permission to start a fire to burn vegetative materials and other materials allowed by Minnesota Statutes or official state rules and regulations may be given by the commissioner or the commissioner's agent.
Minnesota designates no regulatory wildfire hazard zones, and Wright County — exurban farmland and lake country along I-94 — carries lower wildfire risk than the northern pine forests. Spring grass fires are the real hazard.
1 cities in Wright County have their own fire regulations rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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