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Reading list for Austin

Guide applicability This list follows each guide’s stated place scope; construction adoption is a separate Build fact.

17 guides apply to Austin, grouped into 7 series. Homeowner reading comes first. Comparison-only mentions do not make a guide local.

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Guides that apply to Austin

How the documents differ 10

Class A covering is not a bag of shingles · homeowner
Covering versus assembly · homeowner
Gutters and debris as an ember bed · homeowner
Mesh versus listed vents · homeowner
NFPA 13D sprinklers and wildfire · homeowner
No national WUI construction code · homeowner
Texas WUI code status · homeowner
USFA home ignition zones · homeowner
WUI is not only the West · homeowner
Zone 0 in California, Oregon, Firewise, and IBHS · homeowner

How to read a record 1

What TFS rates where · homeowner

For builders — detailing 2

Plastic skylights under R327 and CWUIC · builder
The 200 square foot 2-inch lumber deck exception · builder

Site access and water 1

Fire apparatus access on the lot · homeowner

Existing houses 1

Ready.gov wildfire and the house · homeowner

Insurance designations 1

IBHS does not replace adopted code · homeowner

How it works 1

How the WUI is mapped · homeowner

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