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Reading list for Deschutes County
Guide applicability This list follows each guide’s stated place scope; construction adoption is a separate Build fact.
58 guides apply to Deschutes County, grouped into 9 series. Homeowner reading comes first. Comparison-only mentions do not make a guide local.
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Guides that apply to Deschutes County
How the documents differ
- Class A covering is not a bag of shingles
- Colorado CWRC versus Oregon R327 versus California CWUIC
- Covering versus assembly
- Defensible space vs tree preservation
- Dual-pane versus tempered windows
- Fence as a wick
- Gutters and debris as an ember bed
- Mesh versus listed vents
- No national WUI construction code
- Oregon defensible-space checklist
- Oregon R327 versus California CWUIC
- OSFM listing is usually voluntary
- 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
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For builders — detailing
- Chimney spark arrestors
- Bird blocks, boxed soffit, or unvented attic
- Craftsman eaves under R327
- Deck ledger and the wall intersection
- Exterior FRT wood and weathering
- Heavy timber and log walls under R327
- Spray-applied FRT and special inspection
- The 200 square foot 2-inch lumber deck exception
- Type X behind the covering
- Wall covering termination under R327.3.3.1
- Wall penetrations, hose bibs, and linesets