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Utah's State Construction Code is updated by this bill to replace the older 2006 Utah Wildland Urban Interface Code with the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code, which sets building standards for homes and structures in areas where developed land meets wildfire-prone forest or grassland. The bill also sets a minimum risk threshold for designating wildland-urban interface areas, deletes a section of the interface code related to fire department access, delays from January 2026 to January 2027 the annual fee that county officers must assess against owners of high-risk wildland-urban interface properties, and requires the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands to share its wildfire risk assessment maps with counties, accept written input from counties on proposed boundary changes, and either adopt those recommendations or explain in writing why they were rejected. Property owners in high-risk wildfire zones will have an extra year before facing the annual fee, while counties gain a formal say in how their land is classified on the state's wildfire risk maps.