Gutters and Roofing in Solano County
From Vallejo and Benicia in the southwest to Dixon in the north, and east to Rio Vista.
Solano County, in short
Do I need a permit to replace my roof in Solano County?
Yes. Inside most cities, the city’s building department issues it. In the unincorporated communities, such as Allendale, Cordelia, Elmira, Homeacres, Rockville and Upper Green Valley, the County’s Building and Safety Services Division does. If you wish, we can also pull the permit for you.
The story of Solano County
One of California’s 27 original counties, set in 1850, with Fairfield as its seat.
Vallejo, then Benicia, served as the State’s capital in the early 1850s.
Mare Island, in Vallejo, was a Navy base from 1854 until it closed in 1996, says the National Park Service.
The County says it keeps about 80 percent of its land for open space and agriculture.
Fire safety
Which fire agency is yours
The County’s emergency services page lists a fire department for each of the seven cities. Outside the cities it also lists the Cordelia, Suisun and Vacaville fire protection districts; the Dixon Fire Department serves Dixon’s district by contract, and the Montezuma Fire Protection District has its office in Rio Vista.
The State’s fire hazard map
The State Fire Marshal released the updated 2025 fire hazard severity maps for local areas in four phases between February 10 and March 24, 2025. The County’s Fire Ready page sends residents to CAL FIRE’s map to search an address.
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The County’s adopted map
For the unincorporated areas, the County adopted the State Fire Marshal’s updated map by Ordinance No. 2025-1862, adopted June 3, 2025 and effective July 4, 2025, and it enforces the building requirements for it from July 2025. The rules for State Responsibility Areas did not change.
The State’s rule for the first five feet
Zone 0, the State’s rule for the first five feet around a home: adopted by the Board of Forestry; in final review with the Office of Administrative Law; no effective date known.
Standing check of Oct 22, 2026
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Culture and history
Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
On West G Street in Benicia, State Parks says “The Senate chamber has been returned to its original glory housing three desks from the Benicia period or earlier,” and the historic Fischer-Hanlon House is next door. The park is open Friday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm.
State Parks page, checked Oct 25, 2026
Mare Island, Vallejo
The National Park Service describes Mare Island’s National Register historic district as having “hundreds of buildings built between 1854 and the end of World War II,” and says St. Peter’s Chapel (1901) has 29 stained glass windows designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
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Western Railway Museum
The museum’s own account says it began in 1946, when a group learned that an old Oakland streetcar they had chartered for a day’s outing was to be scrapped within a week, and that Rio Vista Junction, a stop on the Sacramento Northern main line in Solano County, became its site.
Nine local museums
The County lists nine local museums: Benicia Capitol State Historic Park, the Benicia Fire Museum and the Benicia Historical Museum; the Pena Adobe and Mowers-Goheen Museum and the Vacaville Museum; the Travis Air Museum; the Western Railway Museum; the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum; and the Rio Vista Museum.
Rush Ranch
The Solano Land Trust’s Rush Ranch stretches across 2,070 acres of marsh and rolling grassland at the northeast edge of the Suisun Marsh, about 2 miles south of Suisun City along Grizzly Island Road; the Trust invites visitors to the Blacksmith Shop and Bay Area Barns to learn about traditional crafts and ranching history.
Jepson Prairie Preserve
The Solano Land Trust calls its 1,566-acre preserve south of Dixon “one of the best remaining examples of vernal pool ecosystems in California,” and says vernal pools have formed there for 50,000 years or longer.
Community
County parks
Solano County Parks runs five parks: Belden’s Landing, with boat launch, bank and pier fishing access to the Suisun Marsh at Montezuma Slough; Lake Solano, with picnics, birdwatching, non-motorized boating on Putah Creek and a campground; Lynch Canyon Open Space; Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space; and Sandy Beach, on the Sacramento River, with a campground.
Trails
Lynch Canyon Open Space Park has 10 miles of trails and a segment of the San Francisco Bay Area Ridge Trail, with views over the Suisun Marsh, Carquinez Strait and San Pablo Bay. Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park, the largest park with a Fairfield address, has twelve miles of multi-use trails across 1,500 acres.
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Solano County Fair
The Solano County Fair Association announces the 2027 fair for June 10-13 at the Solano County Fairgrounds in Vallejo. The County owns the fairgrounds, and the association says the state and county also use them in emergencies as a refuge for the community and a staging site for service agencies.
Fair's page, checked Oct 25, 2026
Fire safe councils
The Solano Fire Safe Council is the county-wide council, “a group of local stakeholders focused on engaging the Solano County community in action to improve wildfire preparedness, protection, and recovery.” It lists four local councils: Green Valley, Pleasants Valley, Glen Cove and Benicia.
County library
Solano County Library serves six of the county’s seven cities: Dixon, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Vacaville and Vallejo.
County rules
Who may pull the permit
The County’s re-roofing page says reroof permits can be obtained by the homeowner or a licensed contractor, and that the owner of the property is the person who is ultimately responsible for insuring that a reroof permit is issued. Its permits page adds that permits may only be issued to a licensed contractor or the property owner or their certified agent.
What the County checks first
Before a reroofing permit is issued, the County’s re-roofing page says, the Building Division checks the specifications for the roof to insure that the roofing materials and application comply with Building Code standards and the manufacturer’s installation requirements.
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Inspections
The County says all issued permits require building inspections, and that scheduling them is the responsibility of the permittee. Shake and shingle roofs are inspected after the existing roof has been removed and the new sheathing has been nailed, and all roofs need a final inspection when the work is done.
The building code the County uses
County Code section 6.3-03 adopts the 2025 California Building Standards Code, including the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, with the County’s own changes.
How long a permit lasts
A permit for a single-family home is valid for two years from the date it is issued, provided the time limits for starting work and for work stoppage are met.
Grading and drainage
A County grading and drainage permit is needed to change the land in a way that alters or interferes with existing water drainage, or to fill or divert a storm water drainage channel, unless an exemption applies. Gardening primarily for home use, and landscaping that disturbs less than ten thousand square feet of surface, are exempt.
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Storms, flood and drainage
How much rain
NOAA’s 1991-2020 normals for the four weather stations in the county that have one put the yearly rain at 21.49 inches in Vallejo, 24.53 in Fairfield, 24.84 at Vacaville’s Nut Tree Airport and 25.60 at an older Vacaville station that stopped recording in 2009. July is the driest month at all four, with 0.00 to 0.01 inch.
Who handles flood control
The Solano County Water Agency, formed by the State Legislature in 1951, has authority over all flood control matters within its boundaries, which take in the whole county. It operates and maintains the Ulatis Flood Control Project, designed for a 10-year storm with its portions in Vacaville upgraded to a 100-year level, and the Green Valley Flood Control Project in the Cordelia area, designed for a 40-year storm with its portions in Fairfield upgraded to a 100-year level.
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Where the floodplains are
The County’s General Plan says the 100- and 500-year floodplains include the areas along the shoreline of the Sacramento River, Suisun Bay and Grizzly Bay, Suisun Marsh, areas around Suisun City and Fairfield, and lands in the eastern portions of the county.
Alert Solano
The Water Agency’s flood page asks residents to sign up for Alert Solano, Solano County’s Regional Emergency Notification System.
Protect your property
The Water Agency’s flood page tells owners: “Protect your property. Clean drains and gutters, secure outdoor furniture and other loose items, and stabilize slopes to prevent mud and landslides.”
Summer cloudbursts
FEMA’s flood study says cloudburst storms, sometimes lasting as long as 6 hours, can occur at any time from late spring to early fall, and that in Solano County they can produce peak flows substantially greater than those of general rainstorms.
Sand and sandbags
The County’s Office of Emergency Services keeps a page of sand and sandbag locations and says: “All locations are self serve. Please bring your own shovel.”
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Programs, loans and insurance
Water-conserving products rebate
The Solano County Water Agency gives a rebate of up to $50 for a rain barrel and for each other qualifying product category, up to $250 for all five, to single-family or duplex homes on the water service of Vacaville, Vallejo, Benicia, Suisun City, Fairfield, Rio Vista or Dixon (not California Water Service customers). Only finished containers sold exclusively for rainwater collection qualify, and the 2026-2027 rebates run until June 30, 2027 or until funds are depleted.
Terms of Jul 1, 2026 to Jun 30, 2027
Homeacres loan and grants
In Homeacres, the 312-acre unincorporated island surrounded by the City of Vallejo, the County offers income-eligible homeowners a deferred, low-interest loan for up to $80,000 and a small pool of Emergency Repair Grants up to $15,000. Eligible work in the guidelines includes roof repair or replacement, and financial assistance is available until funds run out.
Checked Oct 25, 2026
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First five feet around the home
The Pleasants Valley Fire Safe Council has a $10,000 grant from the National Fire Protection Association for hazardous fuels reduction in the first five feet around homes in the unincorporated areas of Vacaville, from Interstate 80 to Highway 505 to Putah Creek Road to the Napa/Solano/Yolo County line. The scope of work may include gravel, weed abatement from a hired crew, screened vents to prevent ember intrusions and chipper rental, and the grant requires no financial contribution from the property owners. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until all the grant money has been awarded.
Checked Oct 25, 2026
Roadside fuel reduction
The Solano Resource Conservation District, with a CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grant, is clearing roadside vegetation up to 30 feet from the road, in the public right-of-way and on private land with the landowner’s agreement: Cantelow Road and Gibson Canyon Road first (funded in 2026), then Pleasants Valley Road and Steiger Hill Road if funding allows.
Checked Oct 25, 2026
Earthquake Brace + Bolt
Earthquake Brace + Bolt, run by the California Residential Mitigation Program, a joint body, gives up to $3,000 toward a code-compliant seismic retrofit of a qualifying house. Eligibility is by ZIP code: the 2025 Northern California list includes Benicia, Birds Landing, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Travis AFB, Vacaville and Vallejo, and has no row for Dixon or Elmira. Registration is open for a limited time each year, so check back.
ZIP list of 2025
Energy bill help and weatherization
North Coast Energy Services is the provider the State lists for energy bill assistance and weatherization in Solano County, with an office in Vacaville. Its own site says it “helps income-qualified households pay gas, electric and propane bills, and provides free weatherization and heating repair for renters and homeowners.” Phone: (707) 422-3200.
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The story of Solano County
Solano County Parks says the name of Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Park, near Fairfield, means “Southern Rock Home of the Patwin People” in the Hill Patwin language, in acknowledgment of the land’s significance for its original inhabitants and of Solano Land Trust’s ongoing partnership with the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation. The Land Trust’s page on Rush Ranch says the Suisunes, a sub tribe of the Patwins, likely hunted tule elk, grizzly bears and waterfowl, fished in the Suisun slough, and gathered plants for food and medicine.
In 1844, the County’s parks page says, Governor Micheltorena of California granted General Mariano G. Vallejo the Rancho National Soscol, which includes the Lynch Canyon Open Space as we know it today.
The County’s history page says the boundaries of Solano County were set in 1850 by the first elected legislature of the territory of California, making it one of the original 27 counties. It adds that of the 12 townships created in the county’s early days, seven have incorporated into cities: Benicia (1850 and 1851), Vallejo (1868), Suisun City (1868), Dixon (1878), Vacaville (1892), Rio Vista (1893) and Fairfield (1903).
State Parks’ history of California’s capitols lists Vallejo as the State capital from January 5, 1852 to February 4, 1853, and Benicia after it, until February 25, 1854. State Parks says the Benicia Capitol is the only pre-Sacramento Capitol that survives.
The National Park Service says Mare Island became the first United States naval base on the West Coast in 1854, that the first U.S. warship (1859) and first dry dock (1872-91) constructed on the West Coast were built there, and that after it closed in 1996 the island was conveyed to the City of Vallejo in 2002 for reuse and redevelopment.
By the City of Fairfield’s own account, the county seat moved from Benicia to Fairfield in 1858: a proposal was placed on the ballot and ratified by voters in the November election.
Solano County Library was established by the Board of Supervisors in 1914, and a historic Carnegie library in Dixon continues to serve the community today.
The Air Force’s history office says an Army airfield near Fairfield and Suisun City was first recommended in December 1941.
The County’s first official seal was adopted by the Board of Supervisors on April 20, 1965. The County says the pillars from the Old State Capital building in Benicia are in its border, and that its large aircraft reflects the mission of Travis Air Force Base and its ships the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
Solano Community College says it began as Vallejo Junior College in 1945 and became a countywide college in 1967; its main campus, just off Interstate 80, opened in 1971.
Solano Land Trust says it was founded in 1986 as the Solano County Farmlands and Open Space Foundation, by open space advocates, land developers and a municipal government working together. On November 19, 1993 it bought Lynch Canyon to keep an open space buffer between neighboring cities, and since May 2007 the canyon has been run jointly by Solano County Parks and the Land Trust.
The County’s Department of Agriculture says agriculture takes place on 67% of the land in Solano County, and the County says its approach to land use preserves approximately 80 percent of its land for open space and agriculture. The 2025 Crop and Livestock Report puts the gross value of the county’s agricultural production in 2025 at $476,209,000.
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