Palm Beach County
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, Community Risk Reduction Division
In short
Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, Community Risk Reduction Division issues 1 permit we publish for Palm Beach County, last verified 2026-09-28. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PBC Fire Rescue Operational/Life-Safety Permit | Palm Beach County Fire Rescue, Community Risk Reduction Division | PBCFR's own operational and life-safety permit fees are set out in an internal agency directive, Operational Procedure #VIII-7, rather than a schedule published on PBCFR's public website. A separate, unrelated re-inspection fee that escalates from $50 to $100 to $300 under Fla. Stat. §553.80 belongs to PZB's Building Division, not PBCFR, and is recorded under the Palm Beach County Building Permit requirement, not here. | annual or periodic inspection cycle under the Florida Fire Prevention Code, 8th Edition, as locally amended | 2026-09-28 |
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
PBC Fire Rescue Operational/Life-Safety Permit
PBC Fire Rescue's fire and life-safety inspection reach varies by municipality: PBCFR directly inspects unincorporated PBC plus a list of contract municipalities including Belle Glade, Jupiter, Lake Worth Beach, Lantana, Royal Palm Beach, Wellington and others; it dispatches only, without inspecting, for a second list including Delray Beach, Greenacres, North Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Riviera Beach and West Palm Beach; and it has no role at all in Boca Raton, Boynton Beach, Briny Breezes, Golf, Hypoluxo, Ocean Ridge or the Town of Palm Beach, each of which runs a fully independent fire department. Where PBCFR does inspect, restaurants and coffee shops need hood-suppression and LP-gas permits, fitness studios and other assembly occupancies need life-safety permits, childcare facilities need a life-safety inspection, and auto-repair shops need flammable-storage compliance. PBCFR's own operational-permit fee is set by an internal agency directive (Operational Procedure #VIII-7) rather than published on its public site; confirm the current fee directly with the Community Risk Reduction Division before budgeting for it.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Palm Beach County
- Phone
- Not verified — use the website
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.
- Area served — directly-inspected, contract-dispatch-only, and independent-department municipality listsPalm Beach County Fire Rescue · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Community Risk Reduction Division — construction and operational permittingPalm Beach County Fire Rescue · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
- Local amendments to the Florida Fire Prevention Code, 8th EditionPalm Beach County Fire Rescue · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-28
Other offices serving Palm Beach County
- Palm Beach County Constitutional Tax Collector, Local Business Tax Section
- Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Zoning Division
- Palm Beach County Planning, Zoning & Building Department, Building Division
- Palm Beach County Public Safety Department, Animal Care and Control Division
- Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, sitting as the Child Care Facilities Board (delegated to the Child Care Advisory Council, staffed by Florida DOH-Palm Beach)
- Palm Beach County Environmental Resources Management
- Palm Beach County Construction Industry Licensing Board, Contractors Certification Division
- Palm Beach County Public Safety Department, Consumer Affairs Division
- Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department
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