A buyer, a seller, an agent and an inspector all need the same answer about the same rule.
Certification, permits, seller disclosure, the 2025 wildfire rule change and the inspections Oregon houses actually need. One maintained reference, cited to the agency that writes the rule.
SB 83 repealed the statewide wildfire hazard map along with the building requirements, defensible-space obligations and the disclosure question attached to it, and voided the Department of Forestry hazard designations outright.
Section R327 survives as a local option, applying to new construction only, and it is pinned by statute to the 2023 code edition. Six Oregon jurisdictions have adopted it. Two of them do not appear on the state's own published list.
Every field below carries its own source and its own verification date. Where a number is still being traced to rule text rather than to a training provider, the field says so instead of guessing.
The findings that stall Oregon transactions, where the only existing coverage is written by the companies selling the remediation.
An Oregon home inspection is visual and not technically exhaustive, and it excludes underground items by rule. Four of the most expensive problems in Oregon housing sit outside it.
Cost ranges are indicative and not yet individually sourced. They render as guidance, not as verified facts, and carry no citation for that reason.
The CCB handles both steps, which is exactly why they get conflated. ORS 701.445(1) states it in one sentence: an individual may not work as a home inspector unless they are certified and are an owner of, or employed by, a business licensed by the board.
The CCB built two separate search tools, one per step, and its own consumer notice tells you to collect both numbers. An inspector can pass one check and fail the other.
How to become an inspector in Oregon