WEBER COUNTY — After a firework-filled Fourth of July, some Weber County residents will not be able shoot fireworks outside their homes for Pioneer Day.

Weber Fire District and the Utah Division of Forestry and State Lands have enacted new fire restrictions for Huntsville and the Ogden Valley, the organizations announced Wednesday.

Starting July 15, fireworks and open flames will be prohibited in the Ogden Valley and Huntsville. This ban is in addition to the previously enacted restrictions on all unincorporated areas of Weber County east of Highway 89 and Mountain Road, which remain in effect.

“The current weather conditions and the conditions of vegetation in the affected areas have created risk of wildland fire,” a statement from Weber Fire District said. “Campfires are allowed in approved fire pits built within the facilities provided for them in improved campgrounds, picnic areas or permanently improved places of habitation.”

Though not caused by fireworks or open flames, a train sparked dry vegetation in Weber Canyon into a wildfire earlier this month.

The fire district said the previously enacted restrictions would last until at least July 31, but now says “these restrictions will remain in effect until conditions improve.”

In addition, the Utah State Forester has restricted the following in all state lands and unincorporated private lands in Box Elder, Cache, Rich and Weber counties, also beginning July 15:

• Setting, building, maintaining, attending or using open fires of any kind, except campfires built within the facilities provided for them in improved campgrounds, picnic areas or permanently improved places of habitation;
• Smoking, except within an enclosed vehicle or building, a developed recreation site or while stopped in an area at least 3 feet in diameter that is barren or cleared to mineral soil;
• Discharging or using any kind of fireworks, tracer ammunition or other pyrotechnic devices, including explosive targets;
• Cutting, welding or grinding metal in areas of dry vegetation.

Violations of those prohibitions are class B misdemeanors, the state forester said.