Loudoun County Fire Marshal's Office

Fire Marshal Operational Permit

Loudoun's Fire Marshal's Office names, on its own official page (sheriff.loudoun.gov/3209/Fire-Marshal), designated occupancy classifications that require a fire-operational permit, including 'Repair Garages and service stations' (reaching auto-repair businesses by name) and places of assembly with an occupancy of 50 or more people (potentially reaching a restaurant, coffee shop or fitness studio, depending on occupant load). The underlying legal authority is the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code, which Loudoun adopts by reference through Codified Ordinances Ch. 1602 — a short, seven-section chapter (§§1602.01-1602.07) that itself only adopts the state code rather than enumerating the permit list in its own text; the Fire Marshal's page is the county's own paraphrase of the adopted state code's operational-permit items. No fee amount for this permit is published on the Fire Marshal's page, in Chapter 1602's text, or in the Building and Development fee schedule, which covers only Uniform Statewide Building Code permits rather than Fire Prevention Code operational permits. Contact the Loudoun County Fire Marshal's Office for the current fee amount before budgeting for this permit.