Austin · active application documented
Sourced local code · city in Texas
Austin
Local adoption
80product matches
625plant records
6guides
2026-08-26last verified
Austin's wildfire code doesn't ask how hazardous your lot is — it asks how close. The city's amended 2024 IWUIC, effective 2025-07-10, works through Proximity Zones A, B, and C, so what applies to your house begins at the official map and your distance from wildland fuel.
The map starts the review; it does not finish it. Onsite measurement, project scope, and the code official's determination stay open, and what we can't tell you yet holds that line.
Austin is the only sourced local node in Texas. The city sits across USDA half-zones 8b and 9a with 625 plant records documented locally of 636 statewide — living here is the greener half of the file.
What applies to your house here
Austin 2024 IWUIC proximity-zone application, adopted 2025-04-10, effective 2025-07-10, is the construction answer here.
Austin's amended 2024 IWUIC uses Proximity Zones A, B, and C in full-purpose and limited-purpose City areas. The official map starts the review; onsite measurements and the code official determine local reach.
What meets the rule
- 2 vents products match the governing requirement → Adopted
- 11 roofing products match the governing requirement → Adopted
- 26 windows products match the governing requirement → Adopted
- 3 doors products match the governing requirement → Adopted
- 11 siding products match the governing requirement → Adopted
- No sourced decking product matches the governing requirement yet → Adopted
- 1 eaves product matches the governing requirement → Adopted
- No sourced gutters product matches the governing requirement yet → Adopted
- 25 fencing products match the governing requirement → Voluntary program
- 1 landscaping product matches the governing requirement → Voluntary program
What we can't tell you yet
Texas has 1 sourced local node; 1 has a sourced construction application.
Living here
Grow for this city is the state plant pool cut to USDA half-zones observed on ZIPs that resolve here (8b, 9a). Zone is not a fire rating. 625 plant records are documented for Austin out of 636 in Texas. 149 carry an invasive or noxious flag that applies in the state.