International Fire Code
Minnesota enforces the 2018 IFC
The 2018 International Fire Code (IFC) has been in force in Minnesota since Mar 31, 2020. It applies statewide. Adopted by Department of Labor and Industry and Department of Public Safety (State Fire Marshal). The legal citation is Minn. R. 7511.0090.
Record of adoption
Edition in force
2018 IFC
2020 Minnesota Fire Code
Partial
- In force since
- Legal citation
- Minn. R. 7511.0090
- Adopted by
- Department of Labor and Industry and Department of Public Safety (State Fire Marshal)
- Second reading
- Applies
- Statewide
- State amendments
- Major
- Also called
- Minnesota State Fire Code, Minnesota Rules chapter 7511
Rule names the 2018 IFC. The Mar 31, 2020, date is the department’s stated effective date for the 2020 State Building Code set that lists the fire code; the rule page itself shows only an April 16, 2020 publication date.
Coming next
- 2024 IFCPartialNo date yetIn developmentMinn. R. ch. 7511
Request for comments published in the State Register Feb 2, 2026; later milestones to be determined.
How Minnesota adopts the IFC
Fire code adopted by rule jointly by the two departments, in the same cycle as the State Building Code. No legislative approval step was found.
Cycle. Six-year cycle set by statute for model building codes.
Laws, rulings, and other actions
- UndatedLegislationMinn. Stat. 326B.106 subd. 1 (as in the 2025 Minnesota Statutes; latest history cite 2024 c 127 art 6 s 1)
Directs the commissioner to adopt model codes by rule on a six-year cycle starting with the 2018 edition, sets commercial (from 2024) and residential (from 2026) energy code schedules with 2036 and 2038 reduction targets, and requires progress reports to legislative committees.
Enacted; in force
revisor.mn.gov (opens in a new tab)
How it was checked
Partial
Researched in the state’s own record. The seal stays broken until the passage is on file word for word.
Read twice: a second, blind reading of the state’s record agreed with the first on .
The state’s record was last read on , from two source pages.
Evidence 2 sources
Sources for the record itself come first, the state’s own records ahead of others. A label marks a source about something else, such as an exception. A source marked secondary is not the state’s own record.
“the 2018 edition of the International Fire Code”
7511.0090 Codes and standards incorporated by reference (Minnesota Rules)Office of the Revisor of Statutes, Minnesotarevisor.mn.gov (opens in a new tab)Administrative codeRetrieved “The 2020 Minnesota State Building Code is effective March 31, 2020”
“The 2024 Minnesota Commercial Energy Code is effective Jan. 5, 2024.”
2020 Minnesota State Building CodesMinnesota Department of Labor and Industrydli.mn.gov (opens in a new tab)Agency pageRetrieved
Tracker cross-checks
Code adoption trackers are a cross-check. They are not Minnesota’s own record.
ICC’s code adoption mapCross-checkAgrees with the record
Row ‘State Minnesota 18 18 18 18 18 X 12 X X 18 X’; IFC = 3rd value (2018)