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2025 California WUI Code roof-valley flashing

The 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code specifies minimum metal thickness and corrosion resistance for valley flashing, over a named cap-sheet detail.

A flashing product can address the metal portion only. The 36-inch underlayment, full-valley installation, material compatibility, and project details remain separate checks.

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Published requirement text

“Valley flashings shall be not less than 0.019 inch (0.48 mm) (No. 26 galvanized sheet gage) corrosion resistant metal installed over a minimum 36-inch-wide (914 mm) underlayment.”

2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, Section 504.2.2 — California Building Standards Commission / Town of Truckee public record

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PlaceForceReachDatedChecks openSource
California active application documented mapped area effective 2026-01-01 3 Building in the Wildland

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Machine-readable constraints

AttributeOperatorValueUnit
assemblyRole eq valley-flashing
sheetGauge lte 26 sheet-gauge
corrosionResistant eq true
material in aluminum–copper–galvanized-steel–stainless-steel–steel–zinc

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Sources

2025 California WUI Code roof-valley flashing. FireApproved. https://fireapproved.com/requirements/cwuic-2025-roof-valley-flashing/. Last verified 2026-08-24.