Portage County, WI Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Rather than write its own fireworks standards, Portage County incorporates Wis. Stats. § 167.10 wholesale into Section 2.7.1, adopting every requirement and prohibition in the statute except the state's own penalty clause, as authorized by Wis. Stats. § 167.10(5). The section further states that any future amendment, revision, modification or renumbering of the incorporated statute automatically becomes part of the county code, so the county's fireworks rule tracks whatever the legislature currently allows for sale, possession and discharge of fireworks, including exemptions such as novelties and permitted public displays defined under the statute.

Because this is a Chapter 2, Public Peace and Order provision, it applies uniformly across the unincorporated towns under county authority, alongside the county's general enforcement clause in Section 1.8, which gives the Sheriff's Department citation authority for Code violations. Where the state statute is silent on the forfeiture amount for a county-level citation, Section 2.7.2 supplies the county's own penalty schedule, which differs from whatever criminal or civil penalty the state law itself might otherwise carry. The section does not describe a separate county permit process or additional local restrictions such as buffer distances or hour limits; the substantive fireworks rule is entirely the statute as adopted, with only the county's own enforcement and penalty layer added on top.