Fire Regulations in Charles County, MD (2026)

1 rule for unincorporated Charles County, Maryland.

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Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Charles County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Fireworks

Charles County's zoning code flatly bars manufacturing fireworks, explosives, or gunpowder anywhere in the county, even in its Heavy Industrial (IH) zone, the district built for the county's largest-scale processing operations. The ban sits under § 297-92C's list of more than two dozen high-hazard manufacturing uses "expressly prohibited," alongside arsenals, blast furnaces, and acid production, with no special-exception route around it.

Charles County Bans Fireworks Manufacturing In Industrial Zones

Heavy Restrictions

Charles County Code § 297-92C(10)(f)

C. Special regulations. The following heavy industrial uses and others of a similar nature are expressly prohibited. ... (10) Manufacture of any of the following: ... (f) Explosives, fireworks or gunpowder.

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