Fireworks illuminate the skyline above the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and U.S. Capitol during U.S. Independence Day celebrations, as seen from Arlington, Va., on July 4, 2025.Mohammad Reza Mousavi\/Middle East Images\/AFP via Getty Imageshide caption<\/p>\n
The Trump administration is promising a spectacle like no other on July 4. A massive fireworks display in Washington, D.C., will celebrate America’s 250th birthday \u2014 and could also break a world record.<\/p>\n
President Trumpsays he will personally launch”the LARGEST FIREWORKS SHOW IN HISTORY” at the event.<\/p>\n
Setting a new Guinness World Record was a top priority for the event’s organizers at the Freedom 250 organization, a White House commission. And Pyrotecnico, the company putting on the July 4th show, plans to do that. But the company’s CEO, Stephen Vitale, also has another goal.<\/p>\n
“Our main focus is to make this the most memorable fireworks display that this generation will have ever seen,” he says.<\/p>\n
To do that, dozens of Pyrotecnico technicians will fire off about 851,000 fireworks, a number that would eclipse what is usually the biggest annual July 4 show in the U.S.<\/p>\n
“Macy’s has traditionally been what I call the granddaddy of them all,” says Julie Heckman, the executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, an industry trade group.<\/p>\n
“That show traditionally has between 60 and 85,000 aerial shells and effects,” she adds. “So D.C. is looking at 10 times that quantity in setting this world record.”<\/p>\n
Big changes for a big show in 2026<\/p>\n
President Trump arrives at a rally to kick off the Great American State Fair, which is part of the Freedom 250 celebration, on the National Mall on June 24.Andrew Harnik\/Getty Imageshide caption<\/p>\n
The National Mall show usually starts around 9 p.m. ET and lasts less than 20 minutes. But organizers say this year’s show will start around 10:30 p.m. and will be more than twice as long \u2014 at 40 minutes.<\/p>\n
That is shorter than the fireworks show that holds the current Guinness World Record. A megachurch in the Philippines took more than an hour to blast off nearly 811,000 fireworks when it set that record 10 years ago.<\/p>\n
In previous years, Washington’s fireworks have been launched from racks set up along the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. But this year, Vitale says there are many more launch locations.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to be fireworks in stereo,” he says.<\/p>\n
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