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Wildland Urban Interface
New buildings located in any Fire Hazard Severity Zone or any Wildland Urban Interface Fire Area designated by the enforcing agency for which an application for a building permit is submitted shall comply with Chapter 49 Requirements for Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Areas of the California Fire Code (CFC). New buildings located in any Fire Hazard Severity Zone shall comply with one of the following.
New buildings located in any Fire Hazard Severity Zone within State Responsibility Areas, for which an application for a building permit is submitted on or after January 1, 2008, shall comply with all sections of this chapter.
New buildings designated by cities and other local agencies as Moderate, High or Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone for which an application for a building permit is submitted on or after July 1, 2008, shall comply with all sections of this chapter.
New buildings located in any area within any Moderate, High or Very High Fire Severity Zone as recommended by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection or in a Moderate or High Fire Severity Zone as identified by the Healdsburg General Plan for which an application for a building permit is submitted on or after January 1, 2008, shall comply with all sections of this chapter.
The broad objective of the Wildland Urban Interface Fire Area Building and Defensible Space Standards are to establish minimum standards for materials and material assemblies and provide a reasonable level of exterior wildfire exposure protection for buildings in Wildland Urban Interface Fire Areas. The use of ignition resistant materials and design to resist the intrusion of flame or burning embers projected by a vegetation fire (wildfire exposure) will prove to be the most prudent effort California has made to try and mitigate the losses resulting from our repeating cycle of interface fire disasters.
1. State Responsibility Areas
New buildings located in any Fire Hazard Severity Zone within State Responsibility Areas, for which an application for a building permit is submitted on or after January 1, 2008, shall comply with all sections of this chapter.
2. Local Agency Moderate, High or Very-High Fire Hazard Severity Zone
New buildings designated by cities and other local agencies as Moderate, High or Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone for which an application for a building permit is submitted on or after July 1, 2008, shall comply with all sections of this chapter.
3. Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Area Designated by the Enforcing Agency
New buildings located in any area within any Moderate, High or Very High Fire Severity Zone as recommended by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection or in a Moderate or High Fire Severity Zone as identified by the Healdsburg General Plan for which an application for a building permit is submitted on or after January 1, 2008, shall comply with all sections of this chapter.
Objective
The broad objective of the Wildland Urban Interface Fire Area Building and Defensible Space Standards are to establish minimum standards for materials and material assemblies and provide a reasonable level of exterior wildfire exposure protection for buildings in Wildland Urban Interface Fire Areas. The use of ignition resistant materials and design to resist the intrusion of flame or burning embers projected by a vegetation fire (wildfire exposure) will prove to be the most prudent effort California has made to try and mitigate the losses resulting from our repeating cycle of interface fire disasters.