Where are fireworks illegal in Northeast Ohio?

Where are fireworks illegal in Northeast Ohio?

(WJW) — On the July 4 holiday weekend, one can expect many Ohioans to express their patriotism by sending a black powder-filled shell screaming into the twilight’s last gleaming.

Whether or not shooting off fireworks goes against the law of the land depends on where they live — and what day it is.

A new state law that took effect in July 2022 ended decades of prohibition on consumer-grade fireworks — at least on certain holidays — but it also allowed municipalities to set their own restrictions on private fireworks shows, or ban them entirely.

Where are fireworks legal in Northeast Ohio?

What is Ohio’s fireworks law?

In Ohio, fireworks were illegal to use statewide for anyone, except in permitted fireworks displays — until 2022. Under Ohio’s permissive fireworks law that took effect that year, less-powerful consumer-grade fireworks — known in the U.S. as 1.4G fireworks — can be set off on private property by adults, but only on certain days:

  • New Year’s Day, Jan. 1

  • Chinese New Year’s Day, which falls between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20

  • Cinco de Mayo, May 5

  • Memorial Day, which falls on last Monday in May, as well as the preceding Saturday and Sunday

  • Juneteenth, June 19

  • Independence Day, July 4, as well as July 3 and 5, and the first Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays before and after July 4

  • Labor Day, which falls on the first Monday in September, as well as the preceding Saturday and Sunday

  • Diwali, which is celebrated between October and November

  • New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31

Ohioans still can’t use them while drinking or intoxicated. Aerial fireworks like shells, Roman candles, cakes and bottle rockets must be set off at least 150 feet away from spectators. For other non-aerial fireworks, that distance is 50 feet.

The law allows local governments to restrict those dates or ban fireworks entirely, and many have done just that.

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Where are fireworks still illegal in Northeast Ohio?

[Editor’s note: Many Northeast Ohio communities still have not responded to FOX 8 News’ request for confirmation on local fireworks ordinances. If you don’t see your community on this list, check back later.]

Ashtabula

Avon Lake

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Beachwood

Bedford

Bedford Heights

Berea

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Broadview Heights

Brook Park

Brunswick

Chagrin Falls

Cleveland

Cleveland Heights

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Cleveland Metroparks

Conneaut

Cuyahoga Falls

East Cleveland

Eastlake

Euclid

Fairport Harbor

Gates Mills

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Highland Heights

Independence

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Lakewood

Lyndhurst

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Mansfield

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Mayfield Heights

Mayfield Village

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Medina

Mentor

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Mentor-on-the-Lake

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Middleburg Heights

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Newburgh Heights

North Olmsted

North Royalton

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Oberlin

Painesville

Parma

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Parma Heights

Pepper Pike

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Port Clinton

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Put-in-Bay

Ravenna

Rocky River

Seven Hills

Shaker Heights

Sheffield Lake

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Sheffield Village

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Solon

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

South Amherst

South Euclid

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Strongsville

Twinsburg

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

University Heights

Upper Sandusky

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Vermilion

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Wadsworth

Warrensville Heights

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. There is no specific prohibition on possessing them.

Westlake

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

Wickliffe

Willoughby

Willoughby Hills

Willowick

  • Fireworks are illegal to discharge, except during permitted fireworks displays. It’s legal to possess them.

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