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City of Wichita Falls Environmental Health

In short

City of Wichita Falls Environmental Health issues 9 permits we publish for Wichita Falls, last verified 2026-08-27. 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
Pop-Up Food Vendor Permitonly if it applies to youCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$310 per year1 year2026-08-27
Temporary Food Permitonly if it applies to youCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$56–$84 by notice givenper event2026-08-27
Grease Trap Permitonly if it applies to youCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$81 per year1 year2026-08-27
Body Art Operator LicenseCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$110–$540 per year, initial or renewal1 year2026-08-27
Multi-Departmental Grocery Store PermitCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$221 for the store plus $139 for each department1 year2026-08-27
Swimming Pool Permitonly if it applies to youCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$215 per pool, per year1 year2026-08-27
Retail Food Establishment PermitCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$221–$329 per year, by size1 year2026-08-27
Initial and Re-Inspection Feesonly if it applies to youCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$31–$163 by inspection typeper inspection2026-08-27
Daycare InspectionCity of Wichita Falls Environmental Health$108 per inspectionper inspection2026-08-27

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

Pop-Up Food Vendor Permit

$310 — more than any fixed restaurant pays here, and the highest pop-up rate in this dataset. It sits oddly beside the free ghost kitchen and free farmers market vendor lines, so if you are choosing a format in Wichita Falls the permit cost varies more by format than by size. A frozen dessert permit is $165 and a farmers market itself $36.

Temporary Food Permit

$56 if the application is in five or more business days before the event, $84 if it is later — a 50 per cent surcharge for short notice, and one of the few schedules here that prices the deadline into the permit itself rather than adding a separate late fee. A temporary event coordinator pays nothing.

Grease Trap Permit

$81 a year, with the ordinance stating plainly that the rate is for a one-year permit and that the control authority may prorate a shorter one. Let it lapse and it is $28 for every month expired, which overtakes the permit fee itself in three months. A vacuum truck permit — the hauler's, not the restaurant's — is $162 per truck, so check whether your grease contractor holds one before assuming the charge is yours.

Body Art Operator License

$540 for the initial annual license and $110 to renew — one of the steepest first-year gaps in this dataset, and the reason is the examination. Testing is $110 for two attempts, and that $110 is credited against the initial license fee, so the real first-year outlay is $540 if you pass within two goes. Further attempts are $55 each and are not credited. A temporary tattoo artist working an event pays $55.

Multi-Departmental Grocery Store Permit

$221 for the store and a further $139 for each department, and the ordinance names them: deli, meat market, bakery, snack bar, fish market, produce market, or any other department. A supermarket with a deli, a bakery and a meat counter therefore pays $638. Few schedules in this dataset enumerate departments so explicitly, which makes the bill unusually easy to predict — and unusually easy to underestimate if you only read the headline $221.

Swimming Pool Permit

$215 per pool per year, charged per body of water rather than per site, so a gym with a lap pool and a spa pays twice. There is a second line most operators miss: the manager of a public or semi-public water-related activity operation is licensed separately at $54 per manager per year. A permit renewed after expiry costs $28 for every month it was late.

Retail Food Establishment Permit

Three sizes — small $226, medium $283, large $329 — with a restricted operation at $221. The schedule does not define where small ends and medium begins, so confirm your band with Environmental Health rather than assuming. A caterer is $275 for catering only, or $138 as an add-on to an establishment that already holds an annual permit. A ghost kitchen is free, which is unusual enough to be worth checking if you run one. A shared community kitchen is $139.

Initial and Re-Inspection Fees

New construction is inspected at $163, an extensive remodel requiring construction at $112, and a concept change requiring different equipment at $112. Each re-inspection is $82 — cheap against Garland's and McKinney's $200 — and a soft-serve re-sample is $31, which is the most specific inspection fee anywhere in this dataset and tells you exactly which machine the city worries about.

Daycare Inspection

$108 for the city's daycare inspection, which is separate from and additional to the state Child Care License a facility must hold. A foster home inspection is $54. Neither figure is large, but the inspection is a city requirement layered on top of the state one rather than a substitute for it, and the ordinance gives no renewal cycle — confirm the frequency with Environmental Health.

Contact

Jurisdiction
Wichita Falls
Phone
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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. City of Wichita Falls Ordinance No. 47-2025, the city fee schedule for fiscal year 2026, effective 1 October 2025City of Wichita Falls · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-27
  2. Texas DSHS Local Ordinance and Fee Schedule RegistryTexas Department of State Health Services · primary source · retrieved 2026-08-24

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