Willamette Valley
Marion County
Marion County, Oregon: which agency issues building permits, where the records live, and wildfire code adoption status.
Wildfire code, section R327
No adoption record found checked 2026-08-05
Verified fields
Permit authority
- authority
- Marion County Public Works, Building Inspection Division
- septic
- MCBI administers septic in ALL of Marion County INCLUDING INSIDE EVERY CITY, as a DEQ contract agent.
- lbdd corroboration
- State directory lists "Marion County", building official Chris Trussell, phone 503-588-5147.
Contact
- address
- 5155 Silverton Road NE, Salem OR 97305
- address CORRECTION
- CORRECTED. Not Lancaster Dr NE. 2421 Lancaster Dr NE is Marion County Health and Human Services, a different department.
- phone
- 503-588-5147
- [email protected]
- building official
- Chris Trussell, 503-566-3977
- hours
- Mon-Fri 08:00-17:00. No new applications after 16:30. Field inspections 08:30-16:00.
Contracted city model
- finding
- THE MOST USEFUL OPERATIONAL FACT FOR MARION COUNTY.
- county served
- Keizer, Stayton, Mt. Angel, Sublimity, Aumsville, Turner, Jefferson, Gervais, Hubbard, Donald, St. Paul, Scotts Mills, Detroit, Idanha, Gates
- split city
- Woodburn: city does building and mechanical; COUNTY does plumbing and electrical.
- other
- Salem, Silverton and Aurora run their own. Mill City is served by LINN County, straddling the line.
Design criteria
- wind
- Risk Category I 92 mph, II 98 mph, III 104 mph, IV 108 mph, per OSSC Table 1609.3
- seismic
- C, D0 and D1 for one and two family, VARYING BY MAPPED LOCATION per ORSC R301.2.2
- frost in
- 12
- foundation detail
- Stemwall at least 6 inches above finished grade; top of foundation at least 12 inches above street gutter plus 2 percent.
- ground snow
- NO county value and NO elevation table. Deferred to the SEAO site-specific lookup.
- soil bearing
- No county-specific value. Defers to ORSC Table R401.4.1.
Santiam canyon finding
- conclusion
- A POST-2020 SANTIAM CANYON REBUILD WAS NOT REQUIRED BY COUNTY CODE TO MEET IGNITION-RESISTANT STANDARDS. Buyers should not assume otherwise.
- rebuild docs
- Historic Property Line Options for Building and for Septic, addressing survey pins destroyed by fire. URLs surfaced, not fetched.
- flag
- The Wildfire Recovery Packet PDF is a 6.7 MB scanned image with no text layer. Needs OCR.
Lbdd directory
- bcd administered
- No
- jurisdictions serving this county
- Aurora, Marion County, Salem, Silverton, Woodburn
- jurisdiction count
- 5
Cities in this county with a filed record