Fireworks nights in the community record: New Year's and the Fourth
The community record now covers a full year, which means it holds both of Oahu's fireworks seasons: New Year's and the Fourth of July. This is what residents reported around those nights, in aggregate. Community reports are unverified resident submissions to the Stolen Stuff Hawaii network, including the historical SSH community archive; they describe reporting activity, not a census of fireworks use or of pets displaced.
New Year's, the louder night
Across the six days from December 29, 2025 through January 3, 2026, residents logged 18 lost-pet reports and 15 found-pet reports islandwide, alongside fewer than 5 reports filed specifically as illegal fireworks. For scale: a comparison six-day stretch in mid-December (December 15 through 20) logged 6 lost-pet reports, and the year's overall pace worked out to about ten lost-pet reports in a typical six-day span. Lost-pet reporting stayed elevated into the following week, with 13 reports logged January 8 through 13.
The Fourth, the quieter one
In the five days from July 1 through July 5, 2026, residents logged 12 lost-pet reports and 6 found-pet reports; no reports were filed as illegal fireworks in that window. The 2025 holiday itself sits just outside the record: capture of the community archive begins July 6, 2025, two days after that Fourth. The first captured week, July 6 through 12, 2025, opened with 17 found-pet reports against 8 lost-pet reports.
The year around them
Over the covered year the community logged 604 lost-pet reports in all, and ten reports filed specifically as illegal fireworks. Fireworks activity mostly surfaces in this record indirectly, through the pet reports that follow the loud nights, and the two seasons read differently: the turn of the year carried the larger lost-pet count of the two.
How to read it
These are counts of what one community network's members chose to report, shaped by participation and by capture coverage as well as by events. One observed year is an observation, not a seasonal norm; the picture gains a second cycle as coverage accumulates.