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Fort Bend County Fire Marshal's Office

In short

Fort Bend County Fire Marshal's Office issues 2 permits we publish for Fort Bend County, last verified 2026-09-29. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.

What this agency issues

Permits required, with issuing agency, fee, renewal term and the date each record was last verified against its source
Fire Marshal Permits and Certificate of Compliance (County Fire Code)only if it applies to youFort Bend County Fire Marshal's OfficeNo feeconstruction permits per project; operational permits annual2026-09-29
Junkyard / Automotive Wrecking and Salvage Yard Licenseonly if it applies to youFort Bend County Fire Marshal's Office$25 with the application and with each renewal; duplicate license $5one year (ordinance §3.4)2026-09-29

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 Marshal Permits and Certificate of Compliance (County Fire Code)

The Fort Bend County Fire Marshal's Office issues construction permits, plan review, a Certificate of Compliance required to open to the public, fire-protection system permits and operational permits (places of assembly, mobile food preparation vehicles and a child care inspection) under the County Fire Code, in the unincorporated area only; permits, plan review and inspections run through fbcfmopermits.com. There is no fee amount to publish: the Fire Marshal's portal states that new permit fees and applications begin on Thursday, October 1, 2026, and the new fee schedule is not published, so no dollar figure is stated here as current. The county's earlier 2023 fee order is replaced from that date. Contact the Fire Marshal at 281-238-1500 for current amounts. A mobile food unit still needs the Fire Marshal's fire-code operational permit even though its food-safety license moved to DSHS on July 1, 2026. Inside a city, the city's fire department applies instead.

Junkyard / Automotive Wrecking and Salvage Yard License

This license does not apply to an ordinary auto-repair shop. The ordinance defines an automotive wrecking and salvage yard as one that stores three or more wrecked vehicles outdoors for the purpose of dismantling them to remove parts, and only those operations need the license. The Fire Marshal charges $25 with the application and with each annual renewal, and $5 for a duplicate; the license lasts one year and the ordinance requires a fence of at least 8 feet. Yards operating before June 1, 1987 are exempt, and the ordinance covers all areas except incorporated cities, plus cities that adopted it by cooperative agreement. The county's regulations list shows the ordinance as current, with an effective date of May 23, 2017, while the ordinance text says it was adopted June 27, 2017.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Fort Bend County
Phone
281-238-1500

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.

  1. Fort Bend County Fire Code, Eighth Edition, effective October 1, 2023Fort Bend County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  2. Fort Bend County Fire Marshal's Office permit portal (announces new permit fees beginning October 1, 2026)Fort Bend County Fire Marshal's Office · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  3. Junkyard and Automotive Wrecking and Salvage Yard Ordinance (adopted June 27, 2017)Fort Bend County Commissioners Court · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29
  4. Select Commissioners Court Documents (county regulations list)Fort Bend County Attorney · primary source · retrieved 2026-09-29

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