Brunswick County, NC Hurricane Preparedness: Roof Standards (2026)

Brunswick County Code Sec. " This sits alongside Sec. S. 153A-47 as the authority for a county to adopt a technical code by reference. Because Brunswick County sits directly on the Cape Fear coast, the windstorm appendix governs framing connections, roof-to-wall tie-downs, and other wind-resistive construction details for homes built or substantially altered in the unincorporated county, over and above the general building code's baseline requirements. Under Sec. 1-4-8, any amendment to this adopted appendix becomes effective in the county once it is filed with the planning director, and Sec.

1-4-9 requires the planning director's office to keep an official copy of the adopted code on file for public reference. Because this is an adoption-by-reference of a state model code rather than a locally drafted table of numeric wind speeds or nailing schedules, homeowners and contractors must consult the referenced Appendix D text itself, available through the planning department, for the specific construction requirements; the county ordinance's operative text is the adoption provision itself. This section governs new and altered one- and two-family residential construction in unincorporated Brunswick County only; incorporated towns such as Oak Island, Holden Beach, Sunset Beach and Ocean Isle Beach administer their own building permitting under the same statewide building code framework but through their own building inspections departments.