Anchorage
Anchorage Fire Department, Fire Prevention Division
In short
Anchorage Fire Department, Fire Prevention Division issues 1 permit we publish for Anchorage, last verified 2026-09-14. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire and Life Safety Inspection | Anchorage Fire Department, Fire Prevention Division | A base inspection fee of $75.00 under AMC 23.45.108.2 Table 1-A, plus an occupancy and use fee. For non-residential occupancies Table 2-B charges by floor area: $30.00 from 1,000 to 1,999 square feet, $42.00 from 2,000 to 4,999, $72.00 from 5,000 to 9,999, $120.00 from 10,000 to 19,999, $180.00 from 20,000 to 49,999, $240.00 from 50,000 to 99,999 and $360.00 above 99,999. Group A assembly occupancies add $60.00 and Group H hazardous occupancies $120.00 under Table 2-C. Daycare is charged $60.00 for a single-family residence with up to eight children operating between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., and otherwise at the Table 2-B rate. Re-inspections under Table 1-B are $175.00 for the first, $350.00 for the second and $500.00 for the third and subsequent. An operational permit review is $175.00 per hour, with a $500.00 late fee where the application is submitted ten or fewer working days before the event. Inspections outside normal business hours are $250.00 per hour with a two-hour minimum. Where a Group B, F, M or R occupancy inspection finds zero violations the total fee is discounted forty percent. | commercial, industrial, institutional and multi-family buildings may be inspected annually or every other year | 2026-09-14 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Fire and Life Safety Inspection
Two features of this schedule are unusual enough to record. The first is the compliance discount: amended IFC 108.9.4 provides that 'For Group B, F, M, and R occupancies, where there are zero violations, the fees shall be discounted 40 percent off the total fee,' and 108.9.2 lets the fire code official inspect at no charge where an owner is showing progress abating violations. The second is the escalating re-inspection ladder — $175.00, then $350.00, then $500.00 — which makes repeated failures expensive quickly. Fire protection system construction permits sit in Table 3-M and matter most to restaurants and auto shops: a kitchen hood fire system is $450.00, a fire pump $700.00, a special hazard system $700.00, a standpipe $875.00, a gas detection system $450.00, beverage CO2 gas detection $275.00, and sprinkler, alarm or foam-water systems run $450.00 for up to twenty-five devices rising to $825.00 for seventy-six to one hundred. The Department confirms its own basis and its licensing role: it 'conducts inspections as a deferred jurisdiction of the State of Alaska Fire Marshal's Office,' and inspections precede licensing of childcare, adult care and assisted living facilities as well as premises where marijuana or alcohol are manufactured, sold or consumed.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Anchorage
- Phone
- (907) 267-4900
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Anchorage Municipal Code, eCode360 AN6998 — Title 10 (Business Licenses and Regulations, including the repealed chapters 10.30 and 10.35), AMC 16.50 (shops), 16.55 (child care licensing), 16.60 (food establishments, including the §16.60.110 risk-scored fee table), 23.10.109 (building, contractor, sign and inspection fee tables 3-A to 3-O), 23.10.107.4 (certificate of occupancy) and 23.45.108.2 (fire fee tables 1-A to 3-M), all as amended by AO No. 2026-33, 4-14-2026Municipality of Anchorage, codified by General Code · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
- Fire Prevention — the Anchorage Fire Department's own current page confirming that it inspects as a deferred jurisdiction of the State Fire Marshal and that inspections precede licensing of childcare, adult care, marijuana and alcohol premisesMunicipality of Anchorage, Anchorage Fire Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
- Plan Review — the Alaska State Fire Marshal's own list of communities holding deferrals and handling plan review locally, which includes the Anchorage Fire Department and Anchorage Building SafetyAlaska Department of Public Safety, Division of Fire and Life Safety · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-14
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