Fireworks permits now available for New Year’s Eve celebrations

Hawaiʻi Fire Department announces that fireworks permits are now available for purchase for your upcoming New Year’s Eve celebrations.

Fireworks sales began Thursday and end at midnight New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31. Permits are not required for novelties and paperless firecrackers.

Each permit costs $25 and entitle the holder to purchase 5,000 firecrackers. Only people 18 and older can purchase permits, which are nontransferable and non-refundable.

Multiple permits are allowed.

Fireworks permits are available this year at the following locations:

Hilo

• KTA Pūʻainakō, 50 E. Pūʻainakō St.
• Phantom Fireworks Tent, 325 E. Makaʻala St.
• Phantom Fireworks Tent, 111 E. Pūʻainakō St.
• TNT Fireworks Tent, 381 E. Makaʻala St.

Honokaʻa

• TNT Fireworks Tent, 45-3327 Kou St.

Kailua-Kona

• Pacific Fireworks, 74-5629 Kuakini Highway, Suite 155.
• Phantom Fireworks Tent, 74-5511 Luhia St.
• TNT Fireworks Tent, 75-1015 Henry St.

Keaʻau

• TNT Fireworks Tent, 16-711 Milo St.

Kurtistown

• J. Hara Store, 17-343 Volcano Highway.

Pāpaʻikou

• Kimura General Store, 27-289 Mill Road.

Waimea

• KTA Waimea, 65-1158 Māmalahoa Highway.

No permits will be sold this year in the Parker Ranch Center Food Court.

Setting off fireworks for New Year’s celebrations is allowed between 9 p.m. New Year’s Eve and 1 a.m. New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 2025.

Permits should be visibly displayed where fireworks are being fired.

For more information about purchasing fireworks permits, use of fireworks or the fireworks amnesty program, call the Hawaiʻi Fire Department Fire Prevention Branch at 808-932-2911 in Hilo or 808-323-4760 in Kona.