We are currently working through the 2024 Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) code and its local amendments. Detailed information is available on on Speak Up Austin. We welcome and value your input; to provide feedback please submit in writing on the Speak Up Austin webpage before June 28, 2024. View a recording of the June 24 stakeholder presentation online. Join our mailing list to be notified of major changes in the code.
View the current Wildland Urban Interface Code area maps:
Plan Review Resources
- WUI Proximitiy Classes (Zones) - Guide to construction requirements
- Customer Checklist - Builiding Permit and Site Plan Applications (coming soon!)
Preparing Your Home for Wildfire
View the current amendments to the 2015 Wildland-Urban Interface Code.
View the 2015 International Wildland-Urban Interface Base Code
Wildland-Urban Interface Approved Materials List - List of materials approved for use in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Updates
On April 9, 2020 the Austin City Council voted to approve the new 2015 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code (WUIC), making Austin the first major city in the state of Texas to adopt such a code; implementation occurred on January 1, 2021. More than 60 percent of current structures in Austin are found within 1.5 miles of the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), with more joining that percentage every day.
The Wildland Urban Interface Code helps ensure businesses and residences abutting our wildland areas are ready for, and protected from, the next wildfire. Because it’s not a matter of “if” that happens, but “when”.
Administrative Rules
The Austin Fire Department adopted rules to implement, administer, enforce, and/or comply with the WUI Code. Those rules are in Section 4.10 of the Fire Protection Criteria Manual.
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