Grand Junction, CO Fire Regulations: Wildfire Zones (2026)

Chapter 15.46 of the Grand Junction Municipal Code adopts the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code and Map, the state model code developed under the wildfire resiliency program, as the City's controlling code for the wildland-urban interface (Ordinance 5313, March 18, 2026). Section 15.46.010 identifies the areas of the City within the interface, sets minimum standards for new construction, defensible space and existing structures, and adopts three appendices: Appendix A (Permits), Appendix B (Construction Documents) and Appendix C (Inspection and Enforcement). Section 15.46.020 localizes the state model text: every reference to "jurisdiction" or "AHJ" in the model code means the City of Grand Junction and its authority having jurisdiction, and the Chief of the Grand Junction Fire Department, or a designee, is named the code official responsible for administering it.

The amendment strikes Part 2, Section 103 of the model code, so wherever the model text names a code-compliance agency, that role belongs to the Fire Department and the code official rather than any outside agency named in the model. Fees are not fixed in the chapter itself: the amendment to Part 2, Section 106.1 gives the authority having jurisdiction power to set fees, which the City Council does by resolution rather than by ordinance. This wildfire-zone code sits alongside, and is separate from, the wildfire defensible-space standards Grand Junction applies to new subdivisions and planned developments under GJMC Section 21.06.010(d); Chapter 15.46 governs building permits and construction in the mapped wildland-urban interface itself.