Collier County, FL Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

08 carves out the one window residents of unincorporated Collier County, Naples, Marco Island and Everglades City may legally use consumer fireworks without a permit: New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), and New Year's Eve (December 31). Subsection (2) states that this chapter does not prohibit the use of fireworks solely and exclusively during a designated holiday, and adds that the exemption is not meant to give comprehensive fireworks regulation to local government or to let a local ordinance override the three-day exemption Florida law created.

Subsection (3) goes further into private governance: the legislature did not intend the exemption to strip away a restriction already written into a recorded declaration of covenants for a homeowners' association under Chapter 720, so a recorded covenant that bans fireworks can still bind its members. But the same subsection cuts the other way too, forbidding an HOA board of directors from adopting new rules, outside the recorded covenants themselves, that attempt to take away a homeowner's right to use fireworks during one of the three designated holidays or under general law.

Separately, Collier County's own code touches fireworks only on the retail side: Section 126-152(c) requires any seasonal retailer selling sparklers, novelties or trick noisemakers between June 20 and July 5 or December 10 and January 2 to hold a state fire marshal registration certificate and a county local business tax receipt, and to keep invoices proving every item came from a registered manufacturer, distributor or wholesaler. Discharge of fireworks outside the three exempt holidays remains governed by the rest of Chapter 791, not by any county ordinance.