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Reading list for California
Guide applicability This list follows each guide’s stated place scope; construction adoption is a separate Build fact.
64 guides apply to California, grouped into 10 series. Homeowner reading comes first. Comparison-only mentions do not make a guide local.
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Guides that apply to California
How the documents differ
- California AB 38 seller disclosure
- Class A covering is not a bag of shingles
- Colorado CWRC versus Oregon R327 versus California CWUIC
- Covering versus assembly
- Crown and shrub spacing
- Dryer vents versus mesh
- Dual-pane versus tempered windows
- Fence as a wick
- Garage doors as an ember path
- Gutters and debris as an ember bed
- Ignition-resistant versus noncombustible
- Ladder fuels
- Mesh versus listed vents
- No national WUI construction code
- Oregon R327 versus California CWUIC
- OSFM listing is usually voluntary
- Public Safety Power Shutoff and the house
- Renters and defensible space
- The 100-foot rule on a 50-foot lot
- Unvented attic as a wildfire path
- USFA home ignition zones
- WUI is not only the West
- Zone 0 in California, Oregon, Firewise, and IBHS
- Zone 0 versus Zone 1 versus Zone 2
- WUI doors versus 20-minute fire doors
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For builders — detailing
- Chimney spark arrestors
- Gravel and pavers under the deck
- Bird blocks, boxed soffit, or unvented attic
- Deck ledger and the wall intersection
- Plastic skylights under R327 and CWUIC
- Ridge vents versus ASTM E2886
- Roof-to-wall transitions and dormer cheeks
- Type X behind the covering
- Valley metal and cap sheet under R327.3
- Wall covering termination under R327.3.3.1
- Wall penetrations, hose bibs, and linesets