Property Maintenance in Idaho (2026)
20 rules on the books across Idaho, 9 cities and counties. Select a rule to read the full details.
Severity: Few Restrictions · Light Restrictions · Some Restrictions · Significant Restrictions · Heavy Restrictions
Property Blight
Standards for property appearance including peeling paint, broken windows, junk accumulation, and other conditions the city considers blight.
Boise
Significant RestrictionsBoise requires owners to repair, vacate, or demolish buildings that endanger public life, health, or safety under its…
Read full rule →Caldwell
Significant RestrictionsCaldwell enforces the 1997 Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings against any structure that endangers…
Read full rule →Kootenai County
Significant RestrictionsKootenai County bans outdoor storage of anything not customarily kept outside for a permitted use; items that don't…
Read full rule →Meridian
Significant RestrictionsMeridian classifies any building so dilapidated it menaces public health or safety, including fire hazard, as a general…
Read full rule →Nampa
Significant RestrictionsA vacant Nampa building that falls short of the city's vacant-building maintenance standards is declared a public…
Read full rule →Ada County
Some RestrictionsAda County's Nuisance Ordinance, Code section 5-9-3, makes it unlawful to create, cause, maintain, or knowingly allow a…
Read full rule →Canyon County
Some RestrictionsIn unincorporated Canyon County, Idaho, storing junk, scrap lumber, waste petroleum products, trash, or discarded…
Read full rule →Idaho Falls
Some RestrictionsIdaho Falls enforces dangerous, unsafe, and substandard buildings under the 2018 International Property Maintenance…
Read full rule →Vacant Lot Maintenance
Requirements for maintaining vacant or undeveloped land, including mowing, fencing, and preventing dumping and trespassing.
Ada County
Some RestrictionsIdaho law puts the cost and duty of weed control on landowners even for vacant, unimproved parcels. Idaho Code 22-2407…
Read full rule →Boise
Some RestrictionsBoise's fire code requires owners to cut weeds, grass, and vines before they become a fire hazard, and treats any…
Read full rule →Bonneville County
Some RestrictionsBonneville County makes it unlawful to let weeds or offensive plants grow on vacant lots, fields, parking strips…
Read full rule →Caldwell
Some RestrictionsCaldwell City Code makes every vacant lot owner responsible for keeping the property clean and free of garbage, litter…
Read full rule →Canyon County
Some RestrictionsCanyon County bans tall grass and weeds on unimproved and vacant parcels across unincorporated Canyon County, Idaho…
Read full rule →Idaho Falls
Some RestrictionsIdaho Falls bars letting weeds or noxious weeds over ten inches grow, exist, or pile up on any real property in the…
Read full rule →Kootenai County
Some RestrictionsIdaho Code section 22-2407 makes every landowner in Kootenai County responsible for controlling noxious weeds on their…
Read full rule →Snow & Sidewalk Clearing
Your responsibility to clear snow and ice from sidewalks next to your property, including deadlines after a snowfall and penalties for not clearing.
Boise
Some RestrictionsBoise property owners must clear snow from the sidewalk and gutter in front of their building or vacant lot by 9:00…
Read full rule →Caldwell
Some RestrictionsCaldwell property owners must clear ice, snow, rubbish, debris and weeds from the sidewalk fronting their property…
Read full rule →Idaho Falls
Some RestrictionsIdaho Falls property owners, agents, or lessees must clear hail, snow, sleet, and ice from the full length of every…
Read full rule →Meridian
Some RestrictionsMeridian names snow or ice on a public sidewalk abutting private property an abatable nuisance. After a code…
Read full rule →Nampa
Some RestrictionsNampa declares snow, ice, or debris left on sidewalks a nuisance the property owner must clear in a timely manner…
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