The Wallowa Mountains rising above dry foothills in eastern Oregon
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Eastern Oregon

Harney County, Oregon Building Department and Permits

Harney County, Oregon building department and permit records in one place. See the issuing agency, the search portal, and what the record can miss.

Wildfire code, section R327
No adoption record found checked 2026-08-06

The county residential permit PDF exempts reroofing from permits EXCEPT in wildfire hazard zones as provided in section 325. The county does recognise wildfire hazard zones in permit exemptions, citing the older Section 325 rather than current R327.

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Permit authority
authority
Harney County, all four disciplines
lbdd corroboration
State directory lists "Harney County", building official Rick Stauffer, phone 541-573-8195.
Confirmed from the county own residential permit PDF, which has four distinct sections covering structural, electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits, all county-administered. The hypothesis that Harney is partly state-served is DISPROVEN.
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Contact
lbdd record
Harney County, building official Rick Stauffer, phone 541-573-8195, 111 W Washington St. Burns, OR 97720.
Harney County Planning Department, 450 N Buena Vista, Burns OR 97720, 541-573-6655. This comes from a verified county PDF that is demonstrably STALE, citing the CABO 1995 code and the defunct cbx.state.or.us.
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Lbdd directory
bcd administered
No
jurisdictions serving this county
Harney County
jurisdiction count
1
This county runs its own building department, listed under its own name with no BCD suffix.
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The record is half the picture

A permit search shows what was filed, not what was built. The gap between the two is what a general home inspection exists to find.

Anyone inspecting in Harney County must hold a live state certification. Verify an inspector before the report is ordered, not after.

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