Fairfield, CA Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

6 was added to Fairfield's Fire Code to close every legal route for consumer fireworks in the city. , endangers life and property and can push residents to set them off in neighboring jurisdictions that also prohibit them. The ordinance does not attempt to override state law; it supplements Division 11, Part 2 of the Health and Safety Code and exercises the local regulatory authority Health and Safety Code Section 12541 gives cities. The prohibition itself is broad: no person or organization may sell, use, possess or discharge any fireworks in Fairfield.

Two narrow exceptions survive. First, a public fireworks display is allowed if the operator is properly licensed, strictly follows the chapter, all Fire Chief regulations, City resolutions and ordinances and the Health and Safety Code, and obtains the fire code official's authorization for that specific display. Second, 'exempt fireworks,' meaning pyrotechnic items the State Fire Marshal has determined are limited to industrial, commercial, agricultural or religious-ceremony use, may be used only under a permit the fire code official grants. Outside those two paths, possessing even a single 'safe and sane' firework inside city limits violates the ordinance, regardless of where it was purchased.