Blaze orange requirements by state

Applies to: Deer

You must wear a minimum of 144 square inches of hunter orange or fluorescent pink, or a full size hunter orange or fluorescent pink hat or cap. Only hunter orange or fluorescent pink is legal, and various shades of red as well as camo orange are not. It is required in areas open to gun deer season, including youth deer season and the special muzzleloader and air rifle deer season, and on WMAs.

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Applies to: Deer

Exemptions cover an elevated stand 12 feet or more above the ground, an enclosed box stand, an enclosed vehicle, turkey hunting, nighttime fox, raccoon or opossum hunting, and hunting migratory birds including crows.

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Alaska does not require hunters to wear hunter orange. ADF&G still recommends it because it reduces hunting accidents.

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Arizona does not require hunter orange while hunting. Wearing it is still recommended so other hunters can see you.

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Applies to: Big game

Code 05.20 requires an outer garment above the waistline of daylight fluorescent blaze orange totaling at least 400 square inches, plus a hunter orange or hunter safety green hat worn on the head and visible. The deer page states at least 400 square inches of hunter orange, chartreuse or blaze camouflage above the waist and a head garment.

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Applies to: Big game

The requirement applies in areas where modern gun or alternative firearms deer, bear or elk seasons are open, so it catches archers when those seasons are open. Orange must stay visible including when inside a hunting blind. No blaze pink provision was found, and chartreuse or safety green is the alternative.

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Not verified. No statewide hunter orange requirement was found in CDFW's hunting pages or regulations reviewed, and no agency statement that orange is optional was found either. Wearing orange is a sensible safety choice. Confirm with the official regulations before you hunt.

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Applies to: Big game

Hunters must wear at least 500 square inches of solid daylight fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink material on an outer garment above the waist while hunting deer, elk, pronghorn, moose or bear with any firearm license. An orange or pink hat visible from all directions is also required. Camouflage orange or pink does not qualify. Archery hunters in archery-only seasons are exempt.

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Applies to: Big game

The dog handler is required to wear daylight fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink while tracking, unless the handler is tracking an animal shot on an archery license.

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At least 400 square inches of fluorescent orange clothing must be worn above the waist and visible from all sides during the designated fall and winter period defined in the guide. Blaze pink is not authorized.

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Applies to: Deer

Archery hunters are exempt during designated portions of the fall and winter. Orange may also be removed during a designated late fall and early winter period when hunting from elevated stands 10 or more feet high. Check the guide for the exact dates of each window.

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Applies to: Deer

Hunters must display hunter orange on the head, chest, and back totaling no less than 400 square inches combined during firearm deer seasons. With a fully concealed ground blind, 400 square inches of hunter orange material shall be placed within 10 feet outside of the blind and at least 3 feet off of the ground. Blaze pink is not authorized. Archery is not listed as exempt in the deer section.

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Applies to: Deer

All people hunting deer on public lands, or accompanying someone hunting deer on public lands, must wear a minimum of 500 square inches of daylight fluorescent orange material as an outer garment above the waistline. This requirement does not apply during archery-only seasons or on private lands. No blaze pink provision was found.

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Applies to: Deer

You must wear 500 square inches of daylight fluorescent orange or blaze pink above the waist during primitive weapons and firearms deer seasons, and that includes archery hunters during those seasons, except in archery-only counties or WMAs.

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Required. Any person who hunts in public hunting areas is required to wear an exterior blaze orange garment, which may be a shirt, vest, coat, or jacket, made of commercially manufactured, solid blaze-orange material, visible from front and back. Not required on archery-only areas or on private land unless the landowner requires it. No pink allowance was found.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Hunter orange is recommended but not generally required. It is required only while hunting pheasants where the Upland Game Bird Permit is required, meaning IDFG properties and leases, and on sponsored hunts such as organized youth hunts. The standard is 36 square inches of hunter orange above the waist, and an orange hat typically fulfills this requirement. No blaze pink provision was found.

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Applies to: Deer

During firearm deer seasons in open counties hunters must wear a solid blaze orange or blaze pink cap/hat and an upper outer garment displaying at least 400 square inches of solid blaze orange or blaze pink material. Archery hunters are exempt during archery-only seasons but must comply during firearm-season overlap.

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Hunters must wear one or more of the following items that is solid fluorescent orange in color and exposed at all times as an outer garment: vest, coat, jacket, coveralls, hat, or cap. The orange must be solid (not camouflage patterned) and visible at all times, so camo-pattern fluorescent orange does not satisfy the rule. There is no square-inch figure and blaze pink is not mentioned.

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The orange requirement applies during the deer firearms, muzzleloader, youth and deer reduction zone seasons; during fall turkey when it overlaps the deer muzzleloader season; during the rabbit, pheasant, quail and woodcock seasons; and during part of the squirrel season. An archery-only exemption is implied but was not explicitly verified.

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Applies to: Deer

To hunt deer with a firearm in any season you must wear one of the following articles of external, visible, solid blaze orange clothing: vest, jacket, coat, sweatshirt, sweater, shirt or coveralls. There is no square inch figure, and a hat alone does not satisfy it. No orange is required for archery deer hunting. No blaze pink provision was found in the DNR booklet.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Pheasant, quail, gray partridge and ruffed grouse hunters must wear at least one article with at least 50 percent of its surface area solid blaze orange.

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Applies to: Deer

All deer hunters and persons assisting them must wear orange during an open firearm or muzzleloader season. An orange hat and at least 200 square inches of orange is required; 100 square inches must be visible from the front and 100 from the back on the upper half of the body. K.A.R. 115-4-4 requires the hat to be not less than 50 percent bright orange. Camouflage orange is legal.

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Applies to: Deer

All deer hunters, and anyone assisting them, must wear bright orange whenever a firearm or muzzleloader deer season is open, and the rule has no exemption for archery hunters. Wear an orange hat plus at least 200 square inches of orange on the upper body, 100 visible from the front and 100 from the back; camouflage orange that meets this counts. Kansas law names orange only.

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Applies to: Big game

All hunters, and persons accompanying them, must wear outer garments of hunter orange visible from all sides on the head, back and chest when hunting during daylight hours in modern gun, muzzleloader and youth firearm deer seasons and in firearm elk and bear seasons. Kentucky specifies no square-inch figure; it is a coverage rule. Mesh is allowed if the openings in the mesh weave are no wider than one-quarter inch.

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Applies to: Deer

Archers and crossbow hunters must wear hunter orange during deer firearms seasons. Camo-patterned orange alone does not comply. Waterfowl and dove hunters are exempt. Blaze pink is not authorized; only hunter orange appears in the guide.

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Applies to: Deer

RS 56:143 requires not less than four hundred square inches of material of a daylight fluorescent orange color, or blaze pink, displayed on the head, chest and/or back by any person hunting during open gun deer season while possessing buckshot, slugs, a muzzleloader or a centerfire rifle.

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Applies to: Deer

On posted private land you may instead wear a cap or a hat that is completely covered with hunter orange or blaze pink material. Hunters in elevated stands on posted private land are exempt, as are archery hunters on posted land where firearm hunting is prohibited by owner or lessee agreement.

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Applies to: Deer

During the firearms and muzzleloader deer seasons two articles are required: a solid-colored hunter orange hat, and a second article that must cover a major portion of the torso, each at minimum 50 percent orange, in good and serviceable condition and visible from all sides. Hunting with bow and arrow is exempt, though orange is recommended. Blaze pink is not permitted.

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Applies to: Big game

Moose season requires one article of hunter orange. Hunter orange is defined as a daylight fluorescent orange color with a dominant wave length between 595 and 605 nanometers. Maine specifies garments and 50 percent coverage, not square inches.

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Applies to: Deer

A cap of solid daylight fluorescent orange or pink worn as an outer garment on the head, or a vest or jacket with back and front panels of at least 250 square inches of those colors, is required. A camouflage version must be at least 50 percent fluorescent color. Blaze pink is allowed. Deer archery hunters are exempt during the general archery season but not during Firearms Season.

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Applies to: Deer

Hunters using a ground blind must display at least 250 square inches of daylight fluorescent orange or pink on or within 25 feet of the blind.

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Applies to: Deer

500 square inches of blaze orange on the chest, back, and head is required during the shotgun, primitive firearms, winter, and early deer seasons. Archery season requires only a blaze orange hat, and only on WMAs stocked with pheasant and/or quail. Exempt: waterfowl hunting from a blind or boat, and night raccoon or opossum hunting. Blaze pink is not mentioned.

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Applies to: Bear

500 square inches of blaze orange on the chest, back, and head is also required while hunting bear during the Youth Deer Hunt, the paraplegic hunt, and the shotgun deer season.

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Applies to: Deer

If you are hunting deer with a firearm, you must wear a cap, hat, vest, jacket or rain gear of hunter orange. The hunter orange garments must be your outermost layer and be visible from all sides. Camouflage is permitted if not less than 50 percent hunter orange. Archery-only seasons are exempt. There is no square-inch standard, and blaze pink is not listed as acceptable.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Small game hunters, except crow hunters, must also wear hunter orange during the extended fall through spring period set in the regulations.

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Applies to: Deer

During firearms and muzzleloader deer seasons, all hunters and trappers must display blaze orange or blaze pink on the visible portion of the cap and outer clothing above the waist, excluding sleeves and gloves. Blaze camouflage qualifies at 50 percent or more per square foot. Exempt are archery-only areas, waterfowl hunting on water or from a stationary position, and trapping on water.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

When no firearms or muzzleloader deer season is open, small game hunters need at least one article of clothing above the waist that is blaze orange or blaze pink. Exempt then are stationary archery deer hunters also taking small game, turkey, migratory bird and bear hunters, raccoon and predator hunters, furbearer trappers, and falconry for small game.

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Applies to: Deer

When hunting deer during any firearms season for deer, a hunter must wear in full view at least five hundred square inches of solid unbroken fluorescent orange or pink, unless hunting in a stand at least twelve feet above ground or in a fully enclosed deer stand or blind. Hunters must also wear fluorescent orange or pink while traveling to and from their stand.

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Applies to: Big game

You must wear both a hunter-orange hat and a hunter-orange shirt, vest, or coat. The hunter-orange color must be plainly visible from all sides, and camouflage orange does not satisfy this rule. It applies during firearms deer season, the firearms elk portion, black bear season, and managed firearms deer hunts.

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Applies to: Big game

You are exempt if you are archery hunting within municipal boundaries where the discharge of firearms is prohibited, or hunting on federal or state land where deer hunting is restricted to archery methods. There is no square inch specification and no blaze pink provision was found.

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Applies to: Big game

MCA 87-6-414 requires not less than 400 square inches of hunter orange material visible at all times while hunting, worn as exterior garments above the waist. Hunter orange means a daylight fluorescent orange color. It applies to big game hunters and to outfitters and guides. Exceptions: bow and arrow hunting in a special archery season, and hunting wolves outside the general deer and elk season.

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Applies to: Big game

Any people hunting antelope, elk, mountain or bighorn sheep, or deer under the authority of a firearm permit during an authorized firearm season must display on his or her head, chest and back at least 400 square inches of hunter orange material. Archery deer hunters must comply during the firearm deer season and late antlerless seasons. Treat Nebraska as orange only.

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Not verified. No hunter orange requirement was found in the 2025 NDOW general hunting laws, weapons and tag regulation pages or in the 2026 big game and small game guide sections that could be read. Treat this as none found, not as confirmed none. Confirm with the official regulations before you hunt.

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No mandatory blaze orange requirement was found. The digest only urges it: wear hunter orange to make yourself more visible to other hunters. For deer, bear and small game it says it's hard to overstate the importance of wearing a fluorescent orange hat, vest, or jacket, and turkey hunters should always wear blaze orange as they enter and leave an area.

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Firearm hunters must wear a cap made of solid daylight fluorescent orange or an outer garment containing at least 200 square inches of fluorescent orange material visible from all sides at all times when hunting deer, bear, rabbit, hare, squirrel, coyote, fox, railbirds and game birds.

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Ground blind hunters must display 200 square inches of fluorescent orange atop or within five feet of the blind. Blaze pink is not authorized. The requirement is framed for firearm hunters.

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Blaze orange is not required statewide. Hunters on military reservations must wear a minimum of 144 square inches of blaze orange, and on Valles Caldera a minimum of 244 square inches. Elsewhere the Department strongly encourages hunters to wear blaze orange. There is no pink provision. This varies by land type.

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Applies to: Big game

Hunters and their companions hunting deer or bear with a firearm must wear a minimum total of 250 square inches of solid fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink material worn above the waist and visible from all directions, or patterned material at least 50 percent fluorescent orange or pink, or a hat or cap with at least 50 percent fluorescent orange or pink exterior. Blaze pink is allowed.

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Applies to: Big game

Anyone hunting deer or bear with a firearm, and anyone accompanying them, must wear at least 250 square inches of solid or patterned (at least 50%) fluorescent orange or pink above the waist, visible from all directions, or a hat at least 50% solid fluorescent orange or pink. The rule covers firearm hunting, so bowhunters are not required to wear it.

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G.S. section 113-291.8 requires any person hunting game animals other than foxes, bobcats, raccoons, and opossum, or hunting upland game birds other than wild turkeys, or hunting feral swine, with the use of firearms, to wear a cap or hat on his head made of hunter orange material or an outer garment of hunter orange visible from all sides.

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Applies to: Deer

Any person hunting deer during a deer firearms season shall wear hunter orange visible from all sides, and this applies to archery on Sundays and on Youth Hunting Days for all ages and weapons. A landholder, his spouse, or children who are hunting on land held by the landholder are exempt. No blaze pink provision was found in the statute.

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Applies to: Big game

You must wear both a hat and outer garment above the waistline totaling at least 400 square inches of solid daylight fluorescent orange. Camouflage blaze orange is not acceptable. Orange clothing is required of all bow hunters and those accompanying apprentice license holders during the deer gun season. Blaze pink is not recognized in the agency wording.

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Applies to: Deer

During the youth deer gun, deer gun and deer muzzleloader seasons, anyone hunting any wild animal except waterfowl, from 30 minutes before sunrise to 30 minutes after sunset, must visibly wear a vest, coat, jacket or coveralls in solid or camouflage hunter orange. The regulations do not mention blaze pink.

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Applies to: Big game

All hunters participating in any antelope, bear, deer, or elk season using a firearm must wear both a head covering and an outer garment above the waistline, both totaling at least 400 square inches of hunter orange. Archery hunters during firearm seasons must conspicuously wear either a head covering or an outer garment above the waistline of hunter orange. Camouflage hunter orange is permitted.

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All other hunters during firearm seasons must wear either a head covering or upper garment of hunter orange clothing. Hunter pink does not appear in the agency wording; treat Oklahoma as orange only.

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OAR 635-065-0012: no person younger than 18 years of age shall hunt with any firearm for any game mammal or upland game bird, excluding turkey, unless wearing, in a manner visible from all directions, a hat or exterior garment of hunter orange. Exterior garment includes a shirt, jacket, coat, vest or sweater. Fluorescent orange camouflage patterns are acceptable. There is no blaze pink provision.

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250 square inches of daylight fluorescent orange material must be worn on the head, chest and back combined, visible 360 degrees, from one hour prior to the start of legal hunting hours and for one hour past the closing. Orange camo qualifies only if the orange content is at least 250 square inches. Blaze pink is not authorized; the Game Commission specifies fluorescent orange only.

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Fluorescent orange is required in all small game seasons, in deer, bear and elk firearms seasons, in the muzzleloader antlerless deer and bear seasons, and in extended antlerless firearms seasons in designated WMUs and DMAP areas. No fluorescent orange is required during archery seasons when hunting for deer, bear or elk. Woodchuck hunters must wear a hat made of solid fluorescent orange.

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In blinds or enclosed tree stands during firearms seasons, a minimum of 100 square inches of fluorescent orange material, an orange alert band, must be displayed within 15 feet. On State Game Lands it is unlawful to be present during the designated late fall period without wearing a minimum of 250 square inches; this applies to non-hunters too, unless engaged in lawful hunting that does not require orange.

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On state management areas hunters must wear 200 square inches of solid daylight fluorescent orange during the fall and spring periods set by regulation. Exemptions include spring turkey, night raccoon, crow over decoys, dove, and waterfowl from a boat or blind. Blaze pink is not mentioned in the regulations.

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Applies to: Deer

During shotgun deer seasons 500 square inches of fluorescent orange must be worn above the waist, visible from all directions. The same applies to all parties recovering a deer with a dog and when transporting deer decoys. Fluorescent orange is not required in areas limited to archery-only hunting by regulation, and archers already in elevated stands during muzzleloader season are exempt.

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Applies to: Big game

SC Code section 50-11-365 requires all nonexempt persons to wear a hat, coat, or vest of solid international orange while on Wildlife Management Area lands during deer hunting season. No statewide private land orange requirement was found, and no blaze pink provision was found.

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Under the WMA regulations all hunters, including small game hunters, must wear either a hat, coat, or vest of solid visible international orange, and this applies during any gun and muzzleloader season for deer, bear and hogs on WMA lands. Archery hunters during archery-only deer seasons and migratory bird hunters are exempt.

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Applies to: Big game

Big game licensees, excluding turkey and mountain lion, hunting with a firearm must wear at least one exterior garment of fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink while hunting. There is no statewide square-inch minimum. Archery hunters are not covered by the firearm licensee requirement. The handbook advises, but does not require, that all hunters wear such a garment.

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Applies to: Big game

Sand Lake and Waubay refuges require a minimum of 400 square inches of visible solid fluorescent orange on head, chest and back.

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Applies to: Big game

A minimum of 500 square inches of daylight fluorescent blaze orange or blaze pink must be visible front and back while hunting big game, except on archery-only and turkey hunts. Blaze pink is allowed. When an archery-only deer season overlaps another big game gun season, such as bear, archers must still wear the 500 square inches.

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There is no statewide blaze orange requirement in Texas; it is a public-land rule. All persons on public hunting lands, meaning state land, national forests and grasslands, during daylight hours when hunting with firearms is permitted must wear at least 400 square inches of hunter orange with orange headgear, with at least 144 square inches on both chest and back.

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The public-land hunter orange rule does not apply to those hunting turkey, migratory birds, alligator, or desert bighorn sheep, nor to people inside vehicles, designated campgrounds, parking areas, boat launches, or check stations. Blaze pink is not recognized in Texas.

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Applies to: Big game

R657-5-49: an individual shall wear a hat, jacket, coat, vest, or sweater made of primarily hunter orange material, worn on the exterior so it can be seen, while hunting any species of big game. The current rule states no square-inch figure. Exceptions include once-in-a-lifetime hunts, archery and muzzleloader hunts, CWMU hunts, nuisance-removal hunts, and youth elk hunts.

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Applies to: Big game

The field regulations phrase the archery exemption as archery hunts outside areas with a concurrent rifle season. The rule text is orange only per the agency wording; no affirmative authorization of hunter pink was located, and no explicit prohibition of it either.

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Hunter orange is not required by law in Vermont, but wearing it might save your life.

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Applies to: Deer

At least 100 square inches of solid blaze colored material must be worn at shoulder level within body reach and visible from 360 degrees, or a solid blaze hat or upper-body garment visible all around, during firearms deer seasons and the youth and apprentice deer hunting weekend. Virginia uses blaze color, which includes blaze pink.

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Applies to: Deer

Hunters hunting with archery tackle during an open firearms deer season in areas where the discharge of firearms is prohibited by state law or local ordinance are exempt from the blaze color requirement.

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WAC 220-414-080 requires 400 square inches of fluorescent hunter orange and/or fluorescent hunter pink exterior clothing, worn above the waist and visible from all sides, when hunting bear, bobcat, cougar, coyote, deer, elk, fox, grouse, hare, rabbit, raccoon, or turkey in areas open to deer or elk modern-firearm seasons. A hat, by itself, does not meet this requirement.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Modern-firearm hunters pursuing pheasant, quail, and partridge in upland seasons must also meet the fluorescent orange or pink requirement. Exempt are upland bird hunters using archery and muzzleloading firearm, bow and arrow, or falconry, and hunters in a game management unit limited to muzzleloader or archery who hold the matching valid tags.

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Applies to: Deer

At least 400 square inches of blaze orange must be worn as an outer garment by persons hunting in counties where deer firearms or muzzleloader seasons are open. Waterfowl hunters and persons engaged in farming on their own land are exempt, and archery and crossbow seasons do not require it. Blaze pink is not authorized.

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Applies to: Deer

Whenever and wherever a firearm deer season is open, anyone hunting any game except waterfowl must wear outer clothing above the waist that is at least 50% blaze orange or fluorescent pink, and any hat worn must be at least 50% blaze orange or pink. Archers are not exempt; the only exceptions are waterfowl hunters and legal night hunters (such as raccoon hunters) between 30 minutes after sunset and 30 minutes before sunrise.

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Applies to: Big game

Anyone who is hunting big and trophy game during an open firearm season is required to wear one exterior garment of fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink, and it must be visible from 360 degrees. There is no square-inch requirement. It also applies to archers and crossbow hunters during open firearm seasons and to wild bison hunters. Archery-only seasons are exempt.

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Applies to: Upland and small game

Pheasant hunters on specified WGFD management areas must also wear fluorescent orange or fluorescent pink.

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