Adopted edition
Local adoption (Home Rule)
City has its own adoption — separate from county.
TX · City
Brownsville, TX.
Brownsville, TX — building code: Local adoption (Home Rule).
Design wind speed
180 mph
ASCE 7 Risk Cat II, 3-second gust at 33 ft.
Climate zone (IECC)
1A
Drives R-value, fenestration U-factor, and air-leakage envelope rules.
Special zones
- HVHZ
- WBDR
- WUI
- FEMA SFHA possible
Permit office
Brownsville Building Department
ZIP coverage
5 ZIP codes inside Brownsville.
Each ZIP resolves to the correct city + county + state on every parcel lookup. Multi-jurisdiction parcels pick up amendments from each layer.
78520 78521 78522 78523 78526
Working in Brownsville?
Pull an address-level code packet for any parcel in Brownsville. SkyCanvass resolves the address, looks up the Brownsville-specific amendments and the Cameron county and Texas state floor, then emits a cited packet ready for permit submittal.
See the Cameron county overview, or the Texas state directory .
Pull a Brownsville code packet.
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