Eagar building permits

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Department contacts, adopted codes, permit types, fees, and gotchas for Eagar, Arizona.

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Building department

Address: 22 W. 2nd St., PO Box 1300, Eagar, AZ 85925
Phone: 928-333-4128 ext. 222 (Community Development); ext. 230 or ext. 228 (Building Department inspection requests)
Email: No published department email address found as of the last verification; contact via phone at 928-333-4128 ext. 222 (Community Development) or submit a request via the Town's 'Submit a Request or Concern' web form.
Office hours: Community Development Department: 7:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday (Town of Eagar operates a 4-day, 10-hour workweek). Building Department inspection requests are taken 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Monday-Thursday or 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Fridays, per the Town's own permit application forms, and should be made at least 24 hours in advance.
Website: Official site

Inspection guide

See how inspections work in Eagar — sequence, scheduling & re-inspection fees.

Codes adopted

Arizona has no statewide building code for non-state buildings; codes are adopted locally. According to the International Code Council, codes are adopted locally in Arizona and are predominantly the I-codes, with different cities and counties choosing their own editions and local amendments. The Arizona State Fire Code (adopting the 2018 IFC) applies only to state and county buildings, public and private schools, and non-residential occupancies in areas without a locally adopted fire code — it does not establish a statewide residential or commercial building code floor. Each city and county adopts its own code editions independently, resulting in different I-Code years and amendment sets across jurisdictions. There is no state-mandated minimum edition; enforcement is entirely local. Always confirm the adopted edition and any local amendments with the specific jurisdiction before submitting plans.

Arizona has NO statewide mandatory building code floor for general construction — code adoption is a per-city/county authority under state enabling statutes (e.g., A.R.S. Show full textShow less
Arizona has NO statewide mandatory building code floor for general construction — code adoption is a per-city/county authority under state enabling statutes (e.g., A.R.S. Title 9 for municipalities). The Town of Eagar runs its own Community Development / Building Department and independently adopts and administers its own construction codes; it does NOT defer building permitting to Apache County or to the neighboring Town of Springerville. Source: Town of Eagar Building page (eagaraz.gov/o/tofe/page/building) and the Town's own published Building, Commercial, Electrical, Plumbing, Mechanical, and Demolition Permit Application forms, each captioned 'Return this application... to the Building Department.'
2018 International Residential Code (IRC), as adopted by the Town of Eagar. Source: Town of Eagar Building Design Specifications page (eagaraz.gov/o/tofe/page/building): 'Adopted Building Codes – 2018 IRC, IBC, IPC, IMC, IPMC, IFC and 2011 NEC.'
2018 International Building Code (IBC), as adopted by the Town of Eagar for commercial/non-residential construction. Source: Town of Eagar Building Design Specifications page.
2018 International Plumbing Code (IPC), as adopted by the Town of Eagar. Source: Town of Eagar Building Design Specifications page.
2018 International Mechanical Code (IMC), as adopted by the Town of Eagar. Source: Town of Eagar Building Design Specifications page.
2018 International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC), as adopted by the Town of Eagar. Source: Town of Eagar Building Design Specifications page.
2018 International Fire Code (IFC), as adopted by the Town of Eagar as its uniform fire code. Show full textShow less
2018 International Fire Code (IFC), as adopted by the Town of Eagar as its uniform fire code. Source: Town of Eagar Building Design Specifications page. (Fire/EMS response in the Round Valley — Eagar and Springerville jointly — is provided by the Round Valley Fire & Medical Department, a genuinely joint public-safety service; this is distinct from building-code adoption and permitting, which each town administers separately.)
2011 National Electrical Code (NEC), as adopted by the Town of Eagar (electrical code cycle predates the 2018 ICC set). Source: Town of Eagar Building Design Specifications page.
Note on code-text access: the Town's Code of Ordinances (Title 15, Buildings and Construction) is hosted on Municode Library (library.municode.com/az/eagar) behind an authenticated application, with no publicly readable mirror of the Title 15 text. Show full textShow less
Note on code-text access: the Town's Code of Ordinances (Title 15, Buildings and Construction) is hosted on Municode Library (library.municode.com/az/eagar) behind an authenticated application, with no publicly readable mirror of the Title 15 text. The specific code edition years above are instead sourced directly from the Town's own Building Design Specifications page, which is a primary, town-published, non-mirror source.

Permit types & fees

Eagar's permit history isn't searchable here yet

This page covers what the permit requires. What we don't have for Eagar yet is the record of permits actually issued — the history you'd search by street address. That is a gap in our coverage, not a statement about any particular property.

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New residential construction activity

New privately-owned residential construction only

Housing units authorized by building permits for new privately-owned residential construction — this is not total permit volume (no commercial permits or remodels).

Latest month (2026-07)

3units

3 buildings · $704,220 valuation

Trailing 12 months

21units

12 of 12 months reported · #57 in Arizona coverage by units

Year to date (2026 YTD through 2026-07)

12units

12 buildings · $3.5M valuation

7 month(s) reported to Census

Full year 2025

21units

18 buildings · $4.6M valuation

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey (BPS), 2026-07 vintage. Census survey data — separate from the permit-requirements verification above. All Arizona building activity

Tips & gotchas

Arizona has no statewide mandatory building code — the Town of Eagar independently adopts and amends its own construction codes and runs its own Community Development/Building Department; it does NOT defer building permitting to Apache County or to neighboring Springerville. This is the FIRST Apache County jurisdiction entered in this knowledge base.
Eagar and Springerville DO jointly fund/operate the Round Valley Fire & Medical Department for fire and EMS response (confirmed via a joint fire-restriction proclamation co-signed by both towns' mayors on the Town of Eagar's own site) — but this joint arrangement is limited to fire/EMS, and does NOT extend to building-code adoption or permit issuance, which each town's Building Department handles independently with its own forms, fees, and staff.
Adopted codes per the Town's own Building Design Specifications page: 2018 IRC, IBC, IPC, IMC, IPMC, and IFC, plus 2011 NEC — noticeably older editions than nearby Maricopa County cities (e.g., Buckeye's 2024 ICC suite), consistent with a small, low-volume rural jurisdiction that has not cycled through recent code updates.
Town-specific climatic/geographic design criteria (from the Building page): 115 mph wind (Exposure B — note Exposure B, not C, unlike Valley cities), Seismic Design Category B, 15°F winter design temperature (much colder than Phoenix-metro towns, reflecting Eagar's ~7,000+ ft elevation in the White Mountains), 32 PSF roof snow load, 35 PSF ground snow load, 18-inch frost depth, and None-to-Low termite potential.
Review timelines are directly published on each individual permit application's cover page (not in a separate central guideline document as with some larger AZ cities): 6 working days for Residential, Electrical, and Plumbing; 10 working days for Commercial; with an escalation letter promised to the applicant if any permit is delayed beyond 15 working days. This wording is IDENTICAL across the four forms that include it, strongly suggesting a single town-wide policy origin even though it's restated per-form rather than centralized.
Fee Schedule: the Town's own site lists a 'Fee Schedule' link (under Departments > Finance) pointing to an S3-hosted PDF, but that link is flagged 'draft' status in the site's own navigation configuration and the underlying S3 object is not publicly accessible (it returns AccessDenied) — the schedule was never actually published live. No permit fee dollar amounts, valuation tables, or per-square-foot rates are published anywhere else on the Town's site or in Municode. No fee figures are stated for this jurisdiction as a result — none should be inferred or estimated.
Mechanical and Demolition permits have NO published review-timeline text on their own application forms (unlike Residential/Commercial/Electrical/Plumbing, which all state one), despite exhaustive checking of both full PDFs page-by-page, the Community Development and Building web pages, and Wayback Machine. Reported as confirmed gaps (confidence: confirmed-gap) rather than inferred from the other permit types' timelines.
Municode (library.municode.com/az/eagar) hosts Title 15 (Buildings and Construction), but its content is not publicly retrievable — the platform requires authentication for this library, and no readable archived copy of the rendered Title 15 content exists. The codes-adopted list and design criteria here are instead sourced directly from the Town's own (non-Municode) Building page, which independently and more specifically states the exact adopted code editions.
Commercial projects 3,000 sq ft or larger require an Arizona-certified/registered design professional's stamp — this specific numeric threshold is stated directly on the Commercial Building Permit Application and may also route through the Town's Design Review Board.
All Town of Eagar permits (Residential, Commercial, Electrical, Plumbing — confirmed on those four forms specifically) expire 360 days after issuance, extendable beyond 365 days by paying half the original permit fee.
Floodplain clearance and Section 404 (Clean Water Act) permit assistance for construction near the Little Colorado River is handled by Community Development's Floodplain Manager as a function separate from, but potentially required alongside, the standard building permit.