Rock County sets no smoker-specific ordinance. At single-family homes, wood and pellet smokers are allowed as legitimate cooking devices exempt from open-burning rules. In apartments, the same fire-code limits on open-flame cooking near combustible balconies apply.
A backyard smoker is treated as outdoor cooking, not prohibited open burning: Wisconsin's DNR rules (NR 429.04) list recreational and cooking fires as an allowed exception, so smoking meat at a single-family home is legal and needs no burn permit, though smoke that persistently drifts onto neighbors could trigger a local nuisance complaint. For apartments and multi-family buildings, Wisconsin's fire prevention code (SPS 314, adopting the national fire code) prohibits operating open-flame or solid-fuel cooking devices on combustible balconies or within 10 feet of combustible construction, with exemptions for one- and two-family homes and sprinklered buildings. There is no county-wide smoker permit.
Nuisance-level smoke can draw a local ordinance complaint; balcony use at apartments is a fire-code violation the building owner must correct. County imposes no smoker penalty.
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