Davis County, UT Fire Regulations: Brush Clearance (2026)

Davis County adopted the code by Ordinance 02-2007 on March 20, 2007, and amended it again by Ordinance 11-2022 on December 20, 2022, keeping the current text and all future amendments on file as a public record in the Office of the Davis County Clerk. The ordinance folds the 2003 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code, as published by the International Code Council and amended by Utah's 2006 statewide WUI amendments, directly into Title 9 of the county code, the same title that houses the county's open-burning and fireworks-ban authority.

That model code sets the construction-material and vegetation-clearance standards meant to keep a structure fire from spreading into wildland fuels and a wildland fire from igniting a home, covering fuel modification, roofing and siding assemblies, and defensible space around buildings sited in wildfire hazard areas. Coverage runs only to the unincorporated pockets of the county: the Wasatch foothills and canyon-mouth subdivisions near Farmington, Fruit Heights and the benches above Kaysville and Layton, where lots back onto grass, sagebrush and oak brush, rather than to the incorporated cities that hold most of Davis County's population and write their own building codes.

040 to ban fireworks anywhere in the unincorporated area when conditions turn hazardous. A property owner planning a new home, addition or reroof in the unincorporated foothills should confirm code-required assemblies and clearances at plan review before pulling a building permit.