FAQs

Fireworks that are less than 10 years of age and have been in dry storage for safekeeping and are NOT wet, damaged, fuse intact, and have not been tampered with can be popped.  It is recommended that fireworks older than 10 years of age not be popped.

The short answer to popping fireworks in Benbrook, Texas, and surrounding cities, including Aledo, Crowley, Burleson, Joshua, Cresson, Mansfield, Lake Worth, and other cities in and surrounding Tarrant, Johnson, and Parker counties.

If you are 5,000 feet from the city limits and on private residential property, you can pop fireworks to your heart’s content.  But if you manage to set yourself, anyone else, or the countryside ablaze, then you’re on the hook for some hefty jail time and fees to the high heavens.

No, popping fireworks at Benbrook Lake and in Tarrant County is illegal and carries with it a Class-C misdemeanor, a fine, and possible jail time based on the severity of the incident.

It’s illegal to pop fireworks in the following Texas counties: Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Rockwall, Tarrant, Johnson, and Parker. You have to be 5,000 feet from city limits and on private residential property for setting off fireworks to be legal.  Be sure to check your respective county’s fireworks information page as published by the Fire Marshal.

Yes, it is illegal to set off fireworks in Fort Worth, Texas. Per the City of Fort Worth website and by ordinance, the possession, manufacture, storage, sale, handling and use of fireworks are prohibited (Section 3301.1. 3).