Pico Rivera, CA Fire Regulations: Wildfire Zones (2026)

Pico Rivera Municipal Code § 15.46.010 has the City Council adopting the 2025 Edition of the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, Part 7, based on the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code published by the International Code Council, as Chapter 15.46 of Title 15, 'incorporated as if fully set forth herein.' Subsection B states the code's purpose directly: to establish minimum regulations safeguarding life and protecting property by mitigating the risk of wildland fire spreading into structures and structure fires spreading back into wildland fuels, with regulation 'tiered commensurate with the relative level of hazard present.' The chapter supplements, rather than replaces, the city's other adopted construction codes: subsection C provides that if the Wildland-Urban Interface Code conflicts with any other provision of the Pico Rivera Municipal Code, the Municipal Code controls.

Fire-code enforcement in Pico Rivera runs through the contract Los Angeles County Fire Department: Chapter 15.44 adopts the Los Angeles County Fire Code, Title 32 of the County Code, and the same building official process at § 15.08.020 governs permits for construction covered by the Wildland-Urban Interface Code's tiered hazard mitigation measures, such as ignition-resistant construction and defensible-space standards for property within a designated wildland-urban interface area. Because the chapter contains only the adoption section, no free-standing local map or hazard-zone amendment sits in the Municipal Code itself; the applicable hazard designation comes from the state and county fire-hazard-severity mapping that the adopted code incorporates.