Yavapai County, AZ Fire Regulations: Propane Storage (2026)

F requires a Zoning Clearance from the Land Use Specialist before any 'building or structure' is erected, added to, or structurally altered anywhere in unincorporated Yavapai County. b lists categories exempted from the definition of 'structure' entirely, and item (5) names 'Propane, LPG, natural gas and similar pressurized tanks' explicitly, alongside satellite dishes, roof- and ground-mounted solar equipment, and above-ground swimming pools. Because a residential propane tank falls outside the 'structure' definition, it needs no Zoning Clearance, no lot-line setback, and no Development Services review under this Ordinance to be installed.

That is a narrower exemption than it looks: the carve-out only reaches pressurized tanks, and the same list separately excludes 'above ground gasoline, oil and similar non-pressurized tanks' from the exemption, so a non-pressurized fuel tank does not get the same free pass. The zoning exemption also has nothing to do with the retail side of the business: Section 549, Liquid Propane Dispensing - Retail, imposes a twenty-five-foot property-line setback, a two-thousand-gallon size cap, and Arizona State Fire Marshal design standards, but only for a commercial dispensing facility, not a homeowner's own storage tank.

A residential propane tank remains subject to fire and building code requirements the zoning ordinance itself does not address, such as manufacturer installation standards and any burial-depth rule for underground lines.