Fluorescent Orange

Fluorescent orange (hunter orange) promotes hunter safety because it is a color not found in nature. Hunters are encouraged to wear it for their protection and the safety of other people whenever hunters are afield.

Fluorescent orange must be worn by all people who hunt any wildlife or accompany, aid, or assist a hunter in a field, marsh, wooded area, or on the water.

Whenever hunting, both hunters and companions must wear either: 

• A cap of solid daylight fluorescent orange color (worn on the head at all times);

• A vest or jacket containing back and front panels of at least 250 square inches of solid fluorescent orange color (worn as outer garment at all times) or;

• An outer garment of camouflage fluorescent orange worn above the waist which contains at least 50% fluorescent orange color.

NEW REGULATION: Persons required to wear fluorescent orange that hunt from a ground blind that has four sides, a top, and is placed no more than 4 feet above the ground must display, on or within 25 feet of the blind, a cap of solid daylight fluorescent orange color or a panel, band, strip, or garment containing at least 250 square inches (approximately 16”x16”) of solid daylight fluorescent orange color.

Note: Bowhunters hunting during the Deer Firearms or Deer Muzzleloader Seasons are required to wear fluorescent orange. 

The following persons are exempt from the requirement of wearing fluorescent orange (but are still encouraged to wear it when hunting): 

• Property owners who hunt any wildlife on their own property with or without a hunting license (Note: children and spouses of property owners are required to wear fluorescent orange according to regulation);

• A person who hunts deer with a bow during the season restricted to hunting with a bow;

• A person who hunts or accompanies, aids or assists another person hunting the following species: brant, coot, crow, dove, furbearing mammals, rails, snipe, waterfowl, or wild turkey;

• A person who hunts game birds or mammals during open season using falcons, hawks or owls.