The Wildland Urban Interface Code helps ensure businesses and residences abutting our wildland areas are ready for, and protected from, the next wildfire.

Is your property in the wildland urban interface? Enter your address at the top of the map. WUI code areas are displayed in blue and cover 40% of Austin ...

Apr 19, 2024 · When building or remodeling in the City of Austin, you need to be mindful of the threat of wildfire and build with as much resilience as ...

This memorandum serves as an update about the 2021 Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Code and the ... The Fire Marshal's Office of the Austin Fire Department (AFD) ...

Mar 31, 2021 · Austin's WUI code requirements in the city apply to new construction, additions and remodels in the area within 150 feet of a 40-acre or larger ...

While the wildland urban interface (WUI) is a term commonly known in areas that experience wildfires, it may not be common to your fire department. The WUI is ...

May 4, 2020 · The new WUI code requires that all new homes and businesses constructed near wildland areas be built with special ignition-resistant ...

Contains provisions addressing fire spread, accessibility, defensible space, water supply and more for buildings constructed near wildland areas.

The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is a zone of transition between wilderness (unoccupied land) and land developed by human activity – an area where a built ...

A highly urban city with more than 60 percent of its existing structures located within 1.5 miles of the WUI predominantly along its eastern and western edges), ...