The Best Fireworks Weather in America

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Fireworks Index · July 4, 2026

The 25 shows the sky is most likely to let you see in full tonight.

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25 of 1,667

#1 Fireworks Index

90 — Great

Forecast source

Tomorrow.io Weather API

1,667

shows in the full corpus

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#1 Fireworks Index

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What this ranks

How these shows are chosen

Ranked by the Fireworks Index — the expected share of a perfect show. Ties go to the most settled forecast.

Fireworks Index · The Best Fireworks Weather in America

Rankings

Miami Beach Independence Day Fireworks & Patriotic Concert

Lummus Park, Miami Beach, FL · Fireworks Index 90 (Great) · Confidence: Medium

Rank	Show / Venue	Confidence	Index	Band
1	Miami Beach Independence Day Fireworks & Patriotic Concert Lummus Park, Miami Beach, FL	Medium	90	Great
2	Port of San Diego Big Bay Boom San Diego Bay (barges off Shelter Island, Harbor Island, North & South Embarcadero), CA	Medium	89	Great
3	Poipu Beach 4th of July Fireworks Poipu Beach Park, HI	Low	89	Great
4	Cape Canaveral 4th of July Fireworks Exploration Tower Lawn, FL	Medium	88	Great
5	Modesto 4th of July Fireworks John Thurman Field, CA	Medium	88	Great
6	Kemah Boardwalk Fireworks Kemah Boardwalk, TX	Medium	88	Great
7	Lincoln 4th of July Celebration McBean Stadium, CA	Medium	88	Great
8	Kanab Celebration Jacob Hamblin Park, UT	Medium	88	Great
9	Enoch Park Events Old Enoch Park, 1600 E. 2550 North, UT	Medium	88	Great
10	Benicia Torchlight Parade Downtown Benicia, CA	Medium	88	Great
11	Oakland 4th of July Fireworks Jack London Square / Oakland Estuary, CA	Medium	88	Great
12	4th of July Fireworks @the Grounds @the Grounds / All American Raceway, CA	Medium	88	Great
13	Dixon 4th Of July Concert & Fireworks Show Hall Park, CA	Medium	88	Great
14	Mayor's Big Bang Celebration Corpus Christi Bayfront, TX	Medium	88	Great
15	Suisun City 4th Of July Celebration Suisun City, CA	Low	88	Great
16	South Padre Island Fireworks Clayton's Beach Bar & Grill Pier, TX	Low	88	Great
17	Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Freedom Fest Ward Field, HI	Low	88	Great
18	Hilton Hawaiian Village Fireworks Hilton Hawaiian Village, Waikiki Beach, HI	Low	88	Great
19	Fresno Independence Day Celebration Granite Park, CA	Low	88	Great
20	Galveston 4th of July Fireworks Galveston Seawall, TX	Low	88	Great
21	Clovis Freedom Fest Lamonica Stadium at Clovis High School, CA	Low	88	Great
22	The Island Waterpark Firework Show The Island Waterpark, CA	Low	88	Great
23	Celebrating America's 250th Year of Independence Fireworks Show Sequoia Elementary School field, CA	Low	88	Great
24	July 4th on North Beach (Fire on the Fourth) Altos del Mar Park, FL	Medium	87	Great
25	July 4th on South Beach Lummus Park, Ocean Drive, FL	Medium	87	Great

Scoring

How the Fireworks Index works

0–100. The Fireworks Index is the expected share of a perfect show: it multiplies whether the show fires at all (launch gate) by how much of an ideal display you would actually see (sky quality, smoke clearance, darkness). A score of 80 means you’d experience about 80% of a theoretically perfect fireworks display given the forecast conditions.

Four gates feed the score: Sky (cloud cover and ceiling — can you see the shells?), Smoke (air clearance for visibility), Dark (how dark the sky is at show time, after sunset), and Launch (go/delay based on wind, lightning risk, and fire danger). Scores are computed from the Tomorrow.io forecast for the exact show window at each venue’s location.

Sources. Show schedule: NFPA 1123 corpus (1,667 verified shows). Fire risk: Keetch–Byram Drought Index. Sunset timing: NOAA Solar Calculator. Forecast: Tomorrow.io Weather API.

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Fireworks Index · July 4, 2026

Computed from the live Tomorrow.io forecast for each show’s event window. Every score is reproducible from the public forecast API. Computed from the live Tomorrow.io forecast pulled for the event window.