Seminole County, FL Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Seminole County has not enacted its own countywide fireworks ban or permit scheme for private, residential fireworks use; the controlling law is Chapter 791 of the Florida Statutes. 08, adopted in 2020, creates a narrow use exemption for three 'designated holidays': New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), and New Year's Eve (December 31). On those three dates, the statute says Chapter 791 'does not prohibit the use of fireworks solely and exclusively during a designated holiday,' meaning the general restrictions on discharging consumer fireworks elsewhere in Chapter 791, including the sworn-statement and agricultural-use limits normally required to buy them, don't apply to using them on those days.

The exemption is expressly limited: it isn't 'intended to provide for the comprehensive regulation of fireworks' and doesn't override any local government regulation that predates the 2007 fireworks retail law. 08(3) preserves a properly recorded HOA declaration's right to ban fireworks, though it bars an HOA board from passing a rule, short of that recorded covenant, that tries to take away a homeowner's right to use fireworks on a designated holiday. That matters directly in unincorporated communities like Heathrow, Fern Park, and Chuluota, where deed-restricted HOAs are common: a homeowner's fireworks rights on July 4th or New Year's turn on what the recorded covenants actually say, not on county code. 31 of the county code, which requires a Special Authorization Permit.