Permits, Inspections & Licensing

Please follow the instructions below to apply for a license or permit.

Includes concerts, entertainment venues, and movie and television production sets. They are required of any municipality, fair association, amusement park, other organization, or individual.
Applications shall be submitted to local authorities not less than 15 days prior to the date of display.
All locally approved applications shall be submitted to the State Fire Marshal's Office at least 3 business days prior to the intended date of display.

Those that occur within a building or structure that occurs outside, before an audience closer than 75 feet to the pyrotechnics.
Applications shall be submitted at least 10 days prior to production.
These types of shows include pyrotechnic, flame effect, and fire performances.

Display Fireworks Operator
Apply to Wholesale/ Distribute
Proximate Audience Operator or Apprentice Pyrotechnic Effect, Flame Effect, or Special Effects (including fire performers)
To Store Display Fireworks

Fireworks sales outlets
Sites and facilities for the display or storage of display fireworks, as defined in RSA 160-B:1, X.

Required forms and guidelines are located in the searchable document library. They may be submitted in person, electronically or by mail.

Please make checks payable to State of NH.

Mailing Address

New Hampshire Division of Fire Safety
33 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03305
(attention: Fireworks Section)

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