Adopted edition
IRC 2018
City has its own adoption — separate from county.
MS · City
Columbus, MS.
Columbus, MS — building code: IRC 2018.
Design wind speed
100 mph
ASCE 7 Risk Cat II, 3-second gust at 33 ft.
Climate zone (IECC)
3A
Drives R-value, fenestration U-factor, and air-leakage envelope rules.
Special zones
- HVHZ
- WBDR
- WUI
- FEMA SFHA possible
Permit office
Columbus Building Department
ZIP coverage
6 ZIP codes inside Columbus.
Each ZIP resolves to the correct city + county + state on every parcel lookup. Multi-jurisdiction parcels pick up amendments from each layer.
39701 39702 39703 39704 39705 39710
Working in Columbus?
Pull an address-level code packet for any parcel in Columbus. SkyCanvass resolves the address, looks up the Columbus-specific amendments and the Lowndes County county and Mississippi state floor, then emits a cited packet ready for permit submittal.
See the Lowndes County county overview, or the Mississippi state directory .
Pull a Columbus code packet.
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