Billings
Billings Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau
In short
Billings Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau issues 2 permits we publish for Billings, last verified 2026-09-12. 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 Prevention Business Inspection (City fee not published) | Billings Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau | No fee | not applicable | 2026-09-12 |
| Fire System Permit (Installation, Repair, or Replacement of Fire Protection/Alarm Systems)only if it applies to you | Billings Fire Department, Fire Prevention Bureau | Priced by the fire protection or alarm system's own project cost, per system: $0.00-$500.00 = $45.00; $501.00-$1,000.00 = $90.00; $1,001.00-$10,000.00 = $180.00; $10,001.00-$50,000.00 = $250.00; $50,001.00-$100,000.00 = $500.00; $100,001.00-$1,000,000.00 = $1,000.00; over $1,000,000.00 = $2,000.00. | one-time, per system installation, repair, or replacement | 2026-09-12 |
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 Prevention Business Inspection (City fee not published)
No fee is published for this inspection: the Fire Prevention Bureau's own current Business Fire Inspection Checklist and Fire Prevention Bureau pages, both read directly, describe the inspection itself (egress, extinguishers, commercial kitchen hoods, hazardous materials storage, and similar items) but state no dollar figure for a routine business fire-code inspection. Fire protection system plan review (for a new sprinkler, alarm, or suppression system) is instead outsourced entirely to a private consultant, Fire Safety Consultants Incorporated (FSCI) — the City's own page confirms 'review fees are paid directly to FSCI by the submitting contractor or designer,' not to the City, so no City-collected fee is recorded for that review either. This is distinct from the City's own separately-collected Fire System Permit Fee (for installing, repairing, or replacing a fire protection or alarm system), recorded as its own Billings record. That record shows from the City's own documents that the two are separate charges paid to separate payees on the same project: the City's per-system permit fee under Resolution 26-11315, and FSCI's own review fee, paid directly to FSCI.
Fire System Permit (Installation, Repair, or Replacement of Fire Protection/Alarm Systems)
Set by Item 5 of Resolution 26-11315 (adopted February 23, 2026), the same resolution that set the current Building, Electrical, Plumbing and Mechanical permit fees recorded in the other Billings records. The City's own signed copy is the fee source; the City's Permit Fees page (DID=5053) contains no fire system table. Item 5 reads 'Includes the installation, repair, and/or replacement of fire protection and alarm systems. For each system,' so a sprinkler system and a separate alarm system on the same project are each priced on their own. The City's own documents show that this permit fee and FSCI's review fee are two separate charges paid to two different payees. The resolution attaches no plan-review charge to Item 5. Its only plan-review percentage, 60%, sits under the Building Permit Fees item, and it never mentions FSCI or any third-party review. The plans themselves go to FSCI. The City's Development/Construction Requirements page states that FSCI plans 'are returned to the fire marshal for final review and approval' and that 'Review fees are paid directly to FSCI by the submitting contractor or designer.' The Fire Department's Delayed Plan Submittal Verification Form, which has a field for the project's permit number, sends sprinkler, alternative extinguishing and fire alarm plans to Fire Safety Consultants in Elgin, Illinois. The adopted fire code's own fee section is not in force: BMCC Sec. 14-301 adopts the 2021 International Fire Code but states '107 FEES is not adopted.' A project installing a system therefore pays this City permit fee and, separately, FSCI's own review fee. None of these documents credits one against the other. FSCI's fee is set by FSCI rather than by any City resolution, so it is not priced here.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Billings
- Phone
- (406) 657-8422
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.
- Billings City Administrator Weekly Report (January 2, 2026) — its own draft 2026 Council meeting agendas list 'Resolution Setting Building, Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanical, and Fire System Permit Fees' as a consent-agenda item, independently corroborating Resolution 26-11315's legislative processCity of Billings, Montana, City Administrator's Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- BMCC Sec. 14-301 (Adoption by reference of the 2021 edition of the International Fire Code): adopts the IFC's permit and construction-document sections but states '107 FEES is not adopted'City of Billings, Montana, via Municode · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Business Fire Inspection Checklist — the Fire Prevention Bureau's own current inspection checklist, with no fee statedCity of Billings, Montana, Fire Prevention Bureau · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Delayed Plan Submittal Verification Form (Billings Fire Department, updated 8/12/20): automatic sprinkler, alternative automatic extinguishing and fire alarm plans go to Fire Safety Consultants, Elgin, Illinois; the form has a field for the project's permit numberCity of Billings, Montana, Billings Fire Department · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Development/Construction Requirements — the City's own page confirming fire protection system plan review is outsourced to Fire Safety Consultants Incorporated (FSCI), paid directly by the contractorCity of Billings, Montana · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-12
- Resolution 26-11315 (adopted February 23, 2026), A Resolution Setting Building, Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanical and Fire Systems Permit Fees: signed and sealed copy, including Item 5, Fire System Permit Fees, per system by project costCity of Billings, Montana, City Council · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-18
Other offices serving Billings
- City/County Planning Division, City of Billings Planning & Community Services Department
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- City of Billings, Building Division
- City of Billings, Department of Finance (Business License Division)
- City of Billings, City Board of Adjustment
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