Bonner County, ID Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

The only fireworks provision in the Bonner County Revised Code sits in Title 5, Chapter 2, which governs Bonner Park West, the parcel described in Ordinance 414, effective September 1, 2001. Section 5-202(F) says the discharge of fireworks and firearms within the park area shall be prohibited at all times. The next sentence carves out the beach: the discharge of fireworks on the beach area shall be allowed in compliance with the applicable sections of Idaho Code. Firearms get no such exception.

The county code does not set its own fireworks standards for the beach. It sends the question to the Idaho Code, so the state's rules on which fireworks are legal and when they can be used decide what is permitted there.

The Garfield Bay Recreation Area chapter defines the word but does not repeat the ban. Section 5-320 defines fireworks as any combustible or explosive composition prepared for the purpose of producing a visible or audible effect as defined in Idaho statutes. The general regulations in section 5-330(B) for that area prohibit the discharge of firearms and open burning outside designated cooking fires, and do not print a fireworks prohibition.

The same Bonner Park West section bars open burning except in areas designated and equipped for cooking fires, so a beach fire pit is not a place to light off fireworks. Title 5 does not create a countywide fireworks ban. Outside these county parks, fireworks questions fall to Idaho Code and to the fire district or city that covers the property, and Sandpoint and the other incorporated cities set their own rules.