Unincorporated Washoe County does not issue tree-removal permits for private trees, and has no tree-preservation ordinance. In wildland-urban interface hazard zones the fire district instead requires thinning, spacing and pruning of trees for defensible space.
Tree-preservation permitting in the Truckee Meadows is a municipal (Reno/Sparks) program, not a county one; the unincorporated county has no ordinance requiring a permit to remove a healthy private tree. The controlling requirements instead flow from the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District's adoption of the International Wildland-Urban Interface Code. In Moderate/High/Extreme hazard zones, owners must maintain defensible space per WUI Code Table 603.2 (30, 50, or 100-foot buffers) and prune trees so crowns keep 10-foot clearance from structures and limbs stay 6 feet off the ground. Confirm whether your parcel is in a city, an HOA, or a fire hazard overlay before removing trees.
No county removal-permit penalty. In a WUI hazard zone, failure to maintain required defensible-space tree spacing/pruning can draw a TMFPD correction notice and abatement.
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