Queen Creek, AZ Fire Regulations: Wildfire Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Code adopted
- 2021 International WUI Code
- Adopted appendices
- A (General), B (Vegetation Mgmt), C (Fire Hazard Severity)
- Administration
- Follows Town Code Article 7-1
- Amending ordinance
- Ord. 797-22, 10/19/2022
Summary
Queen Creek adopted the 2021 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code townwide under Town Code Section 7-1-1-2, and Section 7-2-10 amends it to route administration through the Town's own building code and to adopt three of its appendices, including a required vegetation management plan and fire hazard severity form.
The following provision of the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code, 2021 Edition, as published by the International Code Council, is hereby amended or modified as follows: CHAPTER 1 ADMINISTRATION Chapter 1, “Administration”, is hereby deleted except as follows: For administration of this Code, refer to Article 7-1 of the Town Code. APPENDICES The following appendices are adopted: Appendix A, General Requirements Appendix B, Vegetation Management Plan Appendix C, Fire Hazard Severity Form
Full Breakdown
Section 7-1-1-2 lists the International Urban-Wildland Interface Code, 2021 edition, among the technical codes that make up "the Town Building Code," alongside the International Building, Residential, Mechanical, Fire and related codes. Section 7-2-10 then amends that adopted WUI Code specifically for Queen Creek: it deletes the model code's own Chapter 1, "Administration," and directs that administration of the WUI Code instead follow Article 7-1 of the Town Code, the same administrative framework (permits, inspections, the Building Official's authority, stop-work orders and the Board of Appeals) that governs every other adopted technical code in town.
Section 7-2-10 also specifies which appendices of the 2021 WUI Code the Town actually adopted: Appendix A, General Requirements; Appendix B, a Vegetation Management Plan; and Appendix C, a Fire Hazard Severity Form. Because appendices to the model codes do not apply unless specifically adopted (Section 7-1-1-2-1), builders and property owners in Queen Creek's wildland-urban interface areas are held to those three appendices and to whatever body of the WUI Code survives the Chapter 1 deletion, not to the full uncut model code. These amendments took effect under Ordinance 797-22, adopted October 19, 2022.
Because "wildfire zone" is not a separate town-drawn overlay district under this framework, the operative geography is whatever the adopted WUI Code itself defines as wildland-urban interface area, applied through the Building Official under Article 7-1.
Violations & Fines
Violations of the adopted WUI Code are enforced the same way as any other technical code violation under Article 7-1: the Building Official can issue a stop-work order under Section 7-1-13, and Article 7-10's general penalty provision applies to noncompliant construction or maintenance in wildland-urban interface areas, since Chapter 1 of the WUI Code itself, which would otherwise set its own enforcement mechanism, was deleted by Section 7-2-10 in favor of the Town's own procedure.
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