Adopted edition
IRC 2021 (Arkansas amendments)
Effective
State · AR
Arkansas building codes at a glance.
Statewide adoption via the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code 2021. Inspections are local but the code base is uniform.
AR Arkansas
IECC zones 3A, 4A · ASCE 7 design wind 90–115 mph
Adoption model
Statewide
Permits issued: State
Coverage status
Indexed
Parcel layer + adopted-edition library + amendment overlay all live.
Climate zones (IECC)
3A · 4A
Drives R-value, fenestration U-factor, and air-leakage envelope rules.
Design wind speed
90–115 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.
Arkansas Fire Prevention Code (AFPC) 2021 tri-volume set governs all jurisdictions.
Statute reference: www.dfa.arkansas.gov/fire-prevention
County directory
All 75 counties in Arkansas.
Each county page shows the adopted edition, county-level amendments, and permit-office contact.
- Arkansas County
- Ashley County
- Baxter County
- Benton County
- Boone County
- Bradley County
- Calhoun County
- Carroll County
- Chicot County
- Clark County
- Clay County
- Cleburne County
- Cleveland County
- Columbia County
- Conway County
- Craighead County
- Crawford County
- Crittenden County
- Cross County
- Dallas County
- Desha County
- Drew County
- Faulkner County
- Franklin County
- Fulton County
- Garland County
- Grant County
- Greene County
- Hempstead County
- Hot Spring County
- Howard County
- Independence County
- Izard County
- Jackson County
- Jefferson County
- Johnson County
- Lafayette County
- Lawrence County
- Lee County
- Lincoln County
- Little River County
- Logan County
- Lonoke County
- Madison County
- Marion County
- Miller County
- Mississippi County
- Monroe County
- Montgomery County
- Nevada County
- Newton County
- Ouachita County
- Perry County
- Phillips County
- Pike County
- Poinsett County
- Polk County
- Pope County
- Prairie County
- Pulaski
- Randolph County
- Saline County
- Scott County
- Searcy County
- Sebastian County
- Sevier County
- Sharp County
- St. Francis County
- Stone County
- Union County
- Van Buren County
- Washington County
- White County
- Woodruff County
- Yell County
City directory
14 cities indexed in Arkansas.
City pages list local amendments, the parent county, and the local permit office.
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