Drought necessitates extension of firework prohibition
Fireworks lit with flame of match.
A prohibition on firework use, possession, and sale in unincorporated Garfield County has been extended from June 20 through July 5 due to severe drought conditions in the area. In April, the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) adopted an ordinance prohibiting the use, possession, or sale of any fireworks in unincorporated Garfield County through April 2023, but the dates of May 31 through July 5 are exempt because of a state law that requires counties to show “competent evidence of high fire danger” to prohibit firework use during this time. Garfield County Emergency Manager Chris Bornholdt told the commissioners that
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Garfield County enacts firework prohibition
Setting Fire to the several Firecrackers. Man in black clothes lighting up two fireworks at the same time.
Garfield County is prohibiting the sale, use, and possession of fireworks in 2022 as a protective measure against ongoing wildfire danger locally and throughout the state of Colorado. The ordinance notes that Garfield County is “periodically subject to hot, dry, and windy conditions, and contains heavily forested, grass, and other vegetation areas, which, in combination with the presence of fireworks, create a high fire danger.” The ordinance (2022-1) prohibits sale, use, or possession of all permissible fireworks in unincorporated Garfield County; municipalities may or may not enforce firework prohibitions within their respective boundaries. Anyone in violation of the ordinance, classified
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