Pomona, CA Fire Regulations: Wildfire Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Trigger
- Property inside mapped Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone
- Construction standard
- California Building Code Chapter 7A
- Effective date
- July 1, 2008
- Map custodian
- Building and safety division; city clerk
- Adopting ordinance
- Ordinance No. 4104
- Related code
- California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, 2025 Edition
Summary
New construction or building expansion inside Pomona's Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone must meet Chapter 7A of the California Building Code, effective since July 1, 2008. The city adopted CAL FIRE's Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone Maps by reference as Exhibit A to Ordinance No. 4104, kept on file with the building and safety division and the city clerk.
(a)Pursuant to Government Code Section 51179(a), this section adopts the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) "Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone Maps," which shall be kept on file in the building and safety division and in the office of the city clerk as Exhibit A to Ordinance No. 4104.(b)Effective July 1, 2008, new construction or building expansion within any Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone shall comply with all requirements of Chapter 7A of the California Building Code.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: City Code: Supplement 31).
Full Breakdown
City Code Sec. 74-32 adopts, under the authority of Government Code Section 51179(a), the CAL FIRE Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone Maps as the trigger for Pomona's local fire-hazard construction rules; the maps are on file in the building and safety division and the city clerk's office as Exhibit A to Ordinance No. 4104. Since July 1, 2008, any new construction or building expansion within a mapped Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone must comply with all requirements of Chapter 7A of the California Building Code, the ignition-resistant construction standards covering roofing, exterior walls, vents, decking, windows and eaves.
Sec. 74-31 layers additional wildfire-specific rules on top: the city has adopted the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, 2025 Edition, and the California Fire Code, 2025 Edition, as amended by Los Angeles County (the 2024 Los Angeles County Fire Code, based on the 2024 International Fire Code), most recently readopted by Ordinance No. 4364 on December 15, 2025. These construction codes are administered under Chapter 1 of the California Building Code and the California Administrative Code, 2025 Edition, per Sec. 74-1(a), meaning a wildfire-zone project goes through the same plan check and building permit process as any other build, with the added Chapter 7A ignition-resistant materials review folded in.
Property owners can confirm whether a specific parcel sits inside the mapped Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone by requesting the maps on file with the building and safety division.
Violations & Fines
Building without the Chapter 7A ignition-resistant materials and assemblies required inside a mapped Very High Fire Hazard Safety Zone is a construction-code violation enforced by the building official; under the Code's general penalty, Sec. 1-7, an unpermitted or noncompliant violation is punishable as a misdemeanor with a fine up to the Penal Code Section 19 limit, up to six months in jail, or both, and each day a violation continues is a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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