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Reading list for Colorado
Guide applicability This list follows each guide’s stated place scope; construction adoption is a separate Build fact.
59 guides apply to Colorado, 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 Colorado
How the documents differ
- A Class A rating is not a service-life clock
- Artificial turf in Zone 0
- Class A covering is not a bag of shingles
- Colorado CWRC versus Oregon R327 versus California CWUIC
- Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code adoption
- Covering versus assembly
- Crown and shrub spacing
- Dual-pane versus tempered windows
- Fence as a wick
- Fire-resistant plants are not noncombustible
- 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
- 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
- Gravel and pavers under the deck
- Bird blocks, boxed soffit, or unvented attic
- Craftsman eaves under R327
- Deck ledger and the wall intersection
- Deck railings in the WUI
- Exterior FRT wood and weathering
- Heavy timber and log walls under R327
- Pergolas and patio covers as projections
- Plastic skylights under R327 and CWUIC
- Ridge vents versus ASTM E2886
- Roof-to-wall transitions and dormer cheeks
- Stucco in the WUI
- The 200 square foot 2-inch lumber deck exception
- The wall base and the six-inch band
- Tile bird stops and roof-profile gaps
- Type X behind the covering
- Valley metal and cap sheet under R327.3
- Vinyl siding in the WUI
- Wall covering termination under R327.3.3.1