Permitting Authorities / Town of Stratton - Building Permits
Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Stratton, CO?
Adopted code
Town of Stratton - Building Permits
Yes — a permit is required to replace a roof in Stratton, CO, issued by Town of Stratton - Building Permits. Ordinance No. 73B (adopted August 11, 2022) amends Ordinance No. 89-A, Section 15.08 ("Permit - Fee"), reciting that "Ordinance No. 89-A, Section 15.08, creates a procedure wherein building permits are requested and administered through a zoning permit committee," and resets the fee: "A fee for the examination and administration of a building permit shall be payable to the Town of Stratton upon receipt of the application for the building permit; the fee shall be Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for fences, roofs, car ports, sheds (12x12 or smaller), porches & awnings and sidewalks, and One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for Garages, shops, home additions and new builds. Any permit will only be good for a period of one (1) year from the date of issuance of the permit." Because a specific $25.00 building-permit fee is named for "roofs," a roofing permit is treated as required on that basis. The ordinance cites C.R.S. 31-15-601 as the Town's statutory authority to "regulate the construction, repair, and use of buildings." No separate Town-level general contractor license/registration requirement was found in the ordinances reviewed.
Jurisdiction
Town of Stratton, Colorado
Address
Stratton, CO 80836
Contact
- url: https://townofstratton.colorado.gov/
Roofing permit required
Required
Contractor registration required
Not required
Permit process note
Ordinance No. 73B (adopted August 11, 2022) amends Ordinance No. 89-A, Section 15.08 ("Permit - Fee"), reciting that "Ordinance No. 89-A, Section 15.08, creates a procedure wherein building permits are requested and administered through a zoning permit committee," and resets the fee: "A fee for the examination and administration of a building permit shall be payable to the Town of Stratton upon receipt of the application for the building permit; the fee shall be Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) for fences, roofs, car ports, sheds (12x12 or smaller), porches & awnings and sidewalks, and One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for Garages, shops, home additions and new builds. Any permit will only be good for a period of one (1) year from the date of issuance of the permit." Because a specific $25.00 building-permit fee is named for "roofs," a roofing permit is treated as required on that basis. The ordinance cites C.R.S. 31-15-601 as the Town's statutory authority to "regulate the construction, repair, and use of buildings." No separate Town-level general contractor license/registration requirement was found in the ordinances reviewed.
Adopted code
Ordinance No. 94B (adopted April 8, 2026): "AN ORDINANCE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF STRATTON ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE 2025 EDITION OF THE COLORADO WILDFIRE RESILIENCY CODE." Section 1 states: "Pursuant to C.R.S. Section 31-16-202, the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, published by the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code Board... is hereby adopted by reference. The subject matter of the Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code includes provisions regarding the construction, alteration, movement, repair, maintenance and use of any building, structure or premises that contain occupiable or habitable space... within the wildland-urban interface areas of Colorado." Section 3.B amends Section 103.1 (Creation of agency): "The Town Building Department is the official in charge thereof and shall be known as the code official... in cooperation with the County of Kit Carson, Colorado." No general IBC or IRC building-code adoption ordinance was found among Stratton's published ordinances (Ordinances 1-101A and 1B-97B, reviewed via the Town's online ordinance archive); the Town's only currently codified construction-related codes located are the Model Traffic Code (Ordinances 8A/13A/24B/39B, various editions) and this 2025 Wildfire Resiliency Code.
Drip edge
Not required — The Town's only adopted construction code is the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, adopted by reference via Ordinance No. 94B (no IRC/IBC has been adopted). The CWRC, read in full, contains no drip-edge provision anywhere in its text.
About drip edgeIce & water shield
Not required — The Town's only adopted construction code is the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, adopted by reference via Ordinance No. 94B (no IRC/IBC has been adopted). The CWRC, read in full, contains no ice-barrier or ice-and-water-shield provision anywhere in its text.
About ice & water barrierMid-roof inspection
Not required — The Town's only adopted construction code is the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, adopted by reference via Ordinance No. 94B (no IRC/IBC has been adopted). The CWRC's inspection provisions (Sections 104.4 through 104.7), read in full, are generic property- access and record-keeping rules; no roofing-specific interim or mid-installation inspection checkpoint appears anywhere in the code.
Impact-resistant roofing
Not required — Ordinance No. 94B (adopted April 8, 2026) adopts the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code (CWRC Version 1.0) by reference and amends only three administrative sections (101.1, 103.1, C101.3.4); it is the only construction code the Town of Stratton has adopted, since no IRC/IBC building-code adoption ordinance appears anywhere among the Town's full published ordinance set (1-101A, 1B-97B). The adopted CWRC text, read in full, contains no UL 2218 or Class 4 impact-resistance requirement anywhere; its sole roof-covering material standard is a Class A fire classification under ASTM E108 or UL 790 (Section 403.2), which is a fire rating, not an impact rating.
Repair permit threshold
The 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code, adopted by the Town via Ordinance No. 94B, sets a roof-specific code-compliance trigger rather than a permit-fee threshold: Section 102.10(4) exempts from the code "the reconstruction, replacement, alteration, or repair of the exterior roof covering of an existing building, when less than 25 percent of the surface area of the exterior roof covering or an attachment thereto is affected," while Section 101.6 requires that once an existing roof covering is replaced, or has 25 percent or more of its surface area replaced, altered, or repaired, the entirety of the roof covering must be brought up to the new-construction Class A roof-covering standard (Section 403.2). Separately, the Town's own building-permit fee ordinance (No. 73B) sets a flat $25.00 permit fee for roof work with no stated square-footage or dollar exemption threshold of its own.
Wind design criteria
The Town of Stratton has not adopted the IRC or any general residential building code; its only adopted construction code is the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code (Ordinance No. 94B, read in full together with the code text it adopts by reference). That code, read in full, contains no wind-speed, wind-zone, or other wind-design provision of any kind; it addresses only wildfire ignition resistance.
Roof layer limit / recover
The Town of Stratton has not adopted the IRC or any general residential building code; its only adopted construction code is the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code (Ordinance No. 94B, read in full together with the code text it adopts by reference). That code sets no limit on the number of roof-covering layers; its only layer-related roof-covering provision is an optional flame- and ember-protection method for existing roof decks (Section 403.2.1), not a restriction on shingle layers.
Deck & sheathing requirements
The Town of Stratton has not adopted the IRC or any general residential building code; its only adopted construction code is the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code (Ordinance No. 94B, read in full together with the code text it adopts by reference). That code, read in full, establishes no deck-sheathing type, spacing, or re-sheeting requirement; the only mention of sheathing is in an unrelated exterior-wall ignition-resistance provision (Section 404.3.2), not in connection with roof decking.
Sales & use tax
4.9% combined (state 2.9% + Town of Stratton 2%; Kit Carson County levies no county-wide sales tax). Per Colorado Department of Revenue form DR 1002 (rev. 06/19/19, updated semi-annually): Kit Carson County has no row in the State-Collected Colorado County Sales Tax table (the form states "If a county is not listed, that county does not have a sales tax"), and the Town of Stratton's own state-collected city rate is separately listed at 2% (3.33% vendor service fee, exemptions A,B,C,D,K, no use tax). Stratton is state-collected, not home-rule; no RTD/SCFD/RTA district applies on Colorado's eastern plains. Re-verified 2026-08-27 against the January 2026 edition of Colorado Department of Revenue form DR 1002, read from a rendered image of its tables rather than from extracted text: the state, county and city figures above match that edition exactly. Where the text above names the June 19, 2019 revision of DR 1002, that describes the edition the figure was originally taken from and is not a current citation.
Local roofing hub
Roof permits nearby — Kit Carson County
Related guides
The building permit authority for the Town of Stratton, Kit Carson County. Building permits are requested and administered through a zoning permit committee under the Town's Ordinance No. 89-A (Section 15.08), with a Board of Trustees-set fee schedule that explicitly names roofs; the Town separately adopted the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code by reference in April 2026, administered by the Town Building Department.
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