San Mateo County
San Mateo County Fire Department (operated cooperatively with CAL FIRE), Fire Marshal
In short
San Mateo County Fire Department (operated cooperatively with CAL FIRE), Fire Marshal issues 2 permits we publish for San Mateo County, last verified 2026-10-09. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Operational Fire Permit (San Mateo County Fire service area)only if it applies to you | San Mateo County Fire Department (operated cooperatively with CAL FIRE), Fire Marshal | Each annual operational permit is priced on the San Mateo County Fire Department service fee schedule established by Board of Supervisors Resolution 080751, which provides for automatic consumer-price-index adjustment effective no earlier than April 1 of each year. Contact the San Mateo County Fire Marshal, (650) 345-1612 or smcfdfiremarshal@fire.ca.gov, for the current amount. | annual | 2026-10-09 |
| State-Licensed Care Facility Fire Inspection / Fire Clearance (San Mateo County Fire service area)only if it applies to you | San Mateo County Fire Department (operated cooperatively with CAL FIRE), Fire Marshal | The annual inspection fee (with separate lines for a state-licensed care facility of six or fewer clients and for I- and R-occupancy care facilities) and the hourly Standard 850 fire clearance inspection fee are set by the San Mateo County Fire Department service fee schedule established by Board of Supervisors Resolution 080751, which provides for automatic consumer-price-index adjustment effective no earlier than April 1 of each year. Contact the San Mateo County Fire Marshal, (650) 345-1612 or smcfdfiremarshal@fire.ca.gov, for the current amount. | annual inspection; fire clearance per application | 2026-10-09 |
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
Annual Operational Fire Permit (San Mateo County Fire service area)
San Mateo County Fire's About Us page says it serves 'most unincorporated areas (those not covered by a municipal fire department or local fire district) of San Mateo County. This includes the communities of San Mateo Highlands (CSA #1), Emerald Lake Hills, Palomar Park, Kings Mountain, Skylonda, La Honda, San Gregorio, Pescadero, Loma Mar, Middleton Tract, South San Mateo County Coast, and the Highway 280 corridor between Farm Hill Boulevard and Black Mountain Road.' Within that area its fee schedule lists annual operational permits including carbon dioxide systems for beverage dispensing, hood and duct, mobile food preparation vehicles (food trucks), motor vehicle fuel-dispensing stations, repair or service garages, spraying or dipping, places of assembly with an occupant load of 50 or more, hazardous materials storage, liquefied petroleum gases and hot works. A business served by a city fire department or another fire district follows that agency's permits and fees instead.
State-Licensed Care Facility Fire Inspection / Fire Clearance (San Mateo County Fire service area)
A child care facility licensed by the State inside San Mateo County Fire's service area — which its About Us page describes as 'most unincorporated areas (those not covered by a municipal fire department or local fire district) of San Mateo County', including San Mateo Highlands, Emerald Lake Hills, Palomar Park, La Honda, Pescadero and the other communities it names — is inspected by County Fire. The County Fire fee schedule lists a State Licensed Care Facility Annual Inspection for six or fewer clients, a separate annual inspection for I-1 to I-4, R-2.1, R-3, R-3.1 and R-4 occupancies, and an hourly Standard 850 Fire Clearance Inspection. A facility in a city or another fire district gets its inspection from that fire agency. The State's child care license itself comes from the California Department of Social Services.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- San Mateo County
- Phone
- (650) 345-1612
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.
- Planning Service Fee Schedule (Resolution 080751 as amended by Resolution 082009), effective July 23, 2026San Mateo County Planning and Building Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-09
- Resolution No. 080751 — Planning, Building and County Fire Marshal service fee schedules, with automatic CPI adjustment (adopted 19 November 2024)San Mateo County Board of Supervisors · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-09
- San Mateo County Fire — About Us (service area)San Mateo County Fire Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-09
- San Mateo County Fire Department service fee schedule (Resolution 080751)San Mateo County Fire Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-09
Other offices serving San Mateo County
- San Mateo County Health, Environmental Health Services
- San Mateo County Treasurer-Tax Collector (business licenses approved by the County Business License Board)
- San Mateo County Agricultural Commissioner / Sealer of Weights and Measures
- San Mateo County Planning and Building Department
- California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
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