Burning Permits Suspended Throughout Wisconsin

Wisconsin Ag Connection - Due to the COVID-19 Safer at Home order, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is suspending burning permits until further notice to protect the health and safety of state residents. The DNR says all burning of debris in barrels, burning of debris piles on the ground, grass or wooded areas is prohibited as a result of the ban.

The agency says most debris fires occur in the spring after the snow-cover melts and before vegetation greening. Spring is also the time people are outside doing yard clean-up and then choosing to burn leaves, brush and pine needles.

Burning permits are required by the Wisconsin DNR in many parts of the state to conduct legal and responsible burning in the outdoors. Burning permits are also required by the Wisconsin DNR in DNR forest fire protection areas to conduct burning of legal materials when the ground is not completely snow-covered.

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