Built by the people who shoot them.
Fireworks Bible is a community effort. Your scores, your ideas, your store picks and your local news are what make it trustworthy. Our tools are not perfect, but they are pretty good for free. Tell us how to make them better.
The Ideas board
Suggest anything that would make Fireworks Bible fit the way you shop and shoot: a product to add, better product information, a new category, a new tool. Everyone votes each idea up or down, and the most popular ideas move to the top of the list of what gets built next.
Community scores
Score every firework you shoot and every store you shop, from 1 to 10. Your scores are yours, and together they become the community score beside each product and store, so the next buyer knows what is worth the money.
The community board
Sales, clearances, demo nights, public shoots and events, filtered to your favorite stores or to how far you are willing to drive. Anyone can send one in, and every post is checked before it goes up.
The knowledge library
Everything worth knowing about consumer fireworks, written plainly and kept short: the law where you live, safety, what each type of firework is, every effect explained, and how to plan a show.
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The knowledge library
Start with the law where you live, then learn what you are actually buying.
Fireworks laws by state
What you can buy, when stores can sell it, when you are allowed to shoot, the minimum age, and whether your city can override the state. All fifty states plus the District of Columbia, each with a link to the law itself.
The safety guide
Setup distances, wind, ground conditions, misfires and duds, eye and hand protection, what to do with a shell that did not go, and how to shut a night down safely. Written from the guidance every maker and fire authority agrees on.
Firework types
What a cake, a shell, a fountain, a mine, a roman candle and a missile actually are. Shot counts, burn times, gram weights and what those numbers mean for the show you get.
Effects explained
Peony, chrysanthemum, brocade, willow, palm, crossette, crackle and the rest. What each one looks like in the air, how to tell apart the ones people mix up, and how often each turns up across more than nine thousand products.
Planning a show
The vertical layers a show is built from, how to structure an opener, a body and a finale, how long each block should run, how many pieces per minute keeps it feeling full, and a worked fifteen minute example.
Buying guide
How to shop a stand without overpaying, what a good assortment really contains, and unit price versus case price.