diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240206-081323.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240206-081323.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f5565b06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20240206-081323.yaml	
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Under the Hood
+body: Remove `fire_event_if_test` method
+time: 2024-02-06T08:13:23.722615-06:00
+custom:
+  Author: emmyoop
+  Issue: "66"
diff --git a/dbt_common/events/functions.py b/dbt_common/events/functions.py
index 6402c791..ad2c40e4 100644
--- a/dbt_common/events/functions.py
+++ b/dbt_common/events/functions.py
@@ -132,13 +132,6 @@ def fire_event_if(
         fire_event(lazy_e(), level=level)
 
 
-# a special case of fire_event_if, to only fire events in our unit/functional tests
-def fire_event_if_test(
-    lazy_e: Callable[[], BaseEvent], level: Optional[EventLevel] = None
-) -> None:
-    fire_event_if(conditional=("pytest" in sys.modules), lazy_e=lazy_e, level=level)
-
-
 # top-level method for accessing the new eventing system
 # this is where all the side effects happen branched by event type
 # (i.e. - mutating the event history, printing to stdout, logging