Adopted edition
IRC 2021 (Alabama amendments)
Effective
State · AL
Alabama building codes at a glance.
Alabama has no statewide residential code. Each municipality adopts independently. Mobile and Baldwin counties enforce coastal wind requirements ~140 mph design.
AL Alabama
IECC zones 2A, 3A · ASCE 7 design wind 100–140 mph
Adoption model
Municipal adoption
Permits issued: Local
Coverage status
Indexed
Parcel layer + adopted-edition library + amendment overlay all live.
Climate zones (IECC)
2A · 3A
Drives R-value, fenestration U-factor, and air-leakage envelope rules.
Design wind speed
100–140 mph
ASCE 7 Risk Category II, 3-second gust at 33 ft. Fastener spec follows.
Special zones
- HVHZ (not applicable)
- WUI (not applicable)
- FEMA SFHA overlays (present)
Compliance track
What's required to build here.
No statewide residential code; municipalities adopt via ordinance. Coastal counties enforce 130+ mph wind.
Statute reference: www.legislature.state.al.us/aliswww/ISD/BOE/ALAdminCode.aspx
County directory
All 67 counties in Alabama.
Each county page shows the adopted edition, county-level amendments, and permit-office contact.
- Autauga County
- Baldwin County
- Barbour County
- Bibb County
- Blount County
- Bullock County
- Butler County
- Calhoun County
- Chambers County
- Cherokee County
- Chilton County
- Choctaw County
- Clarke County
- Clay County
- Cleburne County
- Coffee County
- Colbert County
- Conecuh County
- Coosa County
- Covington County
- Crenshaw County
- Cullman County
- Dale County
- Dallas County
- DeKalb County
- Elmore County
- Escambia County
- Etowah County
- Fayette County
- Franklin County
- Geneva County
- Greene County
- Hale County
- Henry County
- Houston County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson
- Lamar County
- Lauderdale County
- Lawrence County
- Lee County
- Limestone County
- Lowndes County
- Macon County
- Madison County
- Marengo County
- Marion County
- Marshall County
- Mobile County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Morgan County
- Perry County
- Pickens County
- Pike County
- Randolph County
- Russell County
- Shelby County
- St. Clair County
- Sumter County
- Talladega County
- Tallapoosa County
- Tuscaloosa County
- Walker County
- Washington County
- Wilcox County
- Winston County
City directory
20 cities indexed in Alabama.
City pages list local amendments, the parent county, and the local permit office.
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