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Chapter 6 — FIRE PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS

Section 610 — FIRE SAFE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS

2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code (Title 24, Part 7.5) · 2025 edition · updated 2026-07-27 · California

610.1 General.

Pursuant to Public Resources Code, Section 4290, all residential, commercial and industrial building construction within state responsibility areas approved after January 1, 1991, and within lands classified and designated as an LRA Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, as defined in subdivision (i) of Section 51177 of the Government Code after July 1, 2021, shall comply with the SRA Fire Safe Development Regulations as specified in Title 14, Division 1.5, Chapter 7, Subchapter 2.

610.2 Subdivision map findings.

Pursuant to Government Code (GC), Section 66474.02, before approving a tentative map, or a parcel map for which a tentative map was not required, for an area located in an SRA or an LRA Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, as both are defined in GC Section 51177, a legislative body of a county, except as provided in GC Section 66474.02(c), shall make findings regarding compliance with the SRA Fire Safe Regulations and the availability of structural fire protection and suppression services. These findings and accompanying map shall be transmitted to the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection and comply with the requirements in Title 14, Division 1.5, Chapter 7, Subchapter 1, Article 1.

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▸ Contents — 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code (Title 24, Part 7.5)
2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code (Title 24, Part 7.5)
  1. Chapter 1 — ADMINISTRATION
  2. Chapter 2 — DEFINITIONS
  3. Chapter 3 — WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE AREAS
  4. Chapter 4 — WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE AREA REQUIREMENTS
  5. Chapter 5 — SPECIAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION REGULATIONS
  6. ▸ Chapter 6 — FIRE PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS
    Overview
    1. Section 601 — GENERAL
    2. Section 602 — FIRE PROTECTION PLANS
    3. Section 603 — VEGETATION PLAN
    4. Section 604 — MAINTENANCE OF DEFENSIBLE SPACE
    5. Section 605 — SPARK ARRESTORS
    6. Section 606 — LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS INSTALLATIONS
    7. Section 607 — STORAGE OF FIREWOOD AND COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS
    8. Section 608 — BUILDING SITING AND SETBACKS
    9. Section 609 — RIDGELINES, FUEL BREAKS AND GREENBELTS
    10. Section 610 — FIRE SAFE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS
    11. Section 611 — SUBDIVISION REVIEW SURVEY
    12. Section 612 — GENERAL PLAN SAFETY ELEMENT
  7. Chapter 7 — REFERENCED STANDARDS
  8. Appendix A — GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
  9. Appendix B — VEGETATION MANAGEMENT PLAN
  10. Appendix C — COMMUNITY WILDLAND-URBAN INTERFACE (WUI) FIRE HAZ…
  11. Appendix D — MODEL ORDINANCE FOR FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONE ADO…
  12. Appendix E — RESERVED
  13. Appendix F — CHARACTERISTICS OF FIRE-SMART VEGETATION
  14. Appendix G — VOLUNTARY HOME-HARDENING RECOMMENDATIONS
  15. Appendix H — REFERENCED CALIFORNIA DOCUMENTS
  16. Appendix I — BOARD OF APPEALS

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