Colorado Springs enacted a citywide burn ban and canceled all fireworks displays. Utah suspended limits on local bans, enabling Salt Lake County to prohibit fireworks, while Florida maintained no statewide restriction. Embers can smolder for over a minute, and large U.S. regions face burn bans due to drought.
All views rest on an unexamined assumption that fireworks pose a documented, proportional ignition risk without supporting data or review of narrower options.
“Policy defaults to total prohibition rather than targeted rules; economic and enforcement effects receive minimal attention”