Yucaipa, CA Fire Regulations: Fireworks (2026)

Chapter 8.40 of the Yucaipa Municipal Code, adopted by Ordinance 457 in 2025, prohibits the storage, use, sale, possession, and handling of all fireworks in the City of Yucaipa, San Bernardino County. The Yucaipa City Council wrote the ban without a consumer carve-out. The chapter is enforced by any authorized person designated by the City Manager, including the Police Department, Fire Department, Code Enforcement Division and Development Services Department-Public Works Rangers. Anyone authorized to enforce the chapter can seize, take, remove or cause to be removed any fireworks, and § 8.40.020 lets the Fire Chief or the Police Department dispose of what is seized. Fireworks displays require a permit, and § 8.40.030 exempts city-sponsored fireworks displays from the chapter.

The city's California Fire Code amendments in § 15.04.075 reinforce the ban. Section 5601.7 states that storage, use, sale, possession and handling of fireworks 1.3G is prohibited and that the sales, use and display of fireworks 1.4G, commonly referred to as Safe & Sane, is prohibited. The Chief, the police department and the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department can seize stocks of fireworks offered for sale, stored, handled or held in violation of Title 19 CCR, Chapter 6, at the expense of the owner. The only exception is fireworks 1.4G and 1.3G as part of an electrically fired public display permitted and conducted by a licensed pyrotechnic operator. The fire code definition of fireworks includes sparklers, fountains, party poppers, skyrockets, roman candles and fireworks kits.

For a permitted display, Section 5601.2.4.4 requires the permit application at least 14 days before the scheduled date, with a diagram of the grounds showing the discharge point, buildings, highways, audience lines and nearby trees and overhead obstructions. The Chief must be consulted on standby fire apparatus and personnel, and all displays must be electrically fired.