OIR-B1-1802 · Revision 04/26
You leave the property with the adopted OIR-B1-1802 itself — not a lookalike.
A guided, question-by-question form for Florida-licensed inspectors. It captures a photo for every attribute, works out the weakest-feature answers for you, and refuses to export a form with the mistakes insurers reject. Your answers are then stamped onto the government document your carrier already accepts, not re-drawn into a branded report.
Your export is the adopted form, not a redrawing of it
Most tools rebuild the 1802 as their own branded report and hand that to the carrier. This one opens the PDF adopted under Rule 69O-170.0155, F.A.C. and writes your answers onto it at mapped coordinates. What you download is the government document. It cannot drift out of date with the adopted form, because it is the adopted form.
- Placed, not approximated
- The template carries no fillable fields, so every value and check mark is positioned from the form’s own glyph coordinates rather than by eye.
- Its quirks left alone
- Where the printed form has an oddly indented heading or a label sitting a fraction closer to its box, that is reproduced rather than tidied. Matching it exactly is the point.
- Photographs attached properly
- Full colour, grouped and labelled by question across pages that follow the form, the way a filed report is actually organised.
Six ways this form comes back, and what the tool does about each
A rejected form costs a second trip. Every rule below is enforced or surfaced before you can export.
A credited attribute with no photo
Questions 2 through 9 each have their own photo step. You cannot pass one without a photo, or an explicit acknowledgement that is recorded on the report.
The wrong “weakest” answer
Questions 5, 6 and 9 ask for the weakest feature present, not the best. The instruction is the loudest thing on those screens, and question 9 is derived from the chart for you.
A transition-year home with no permit date
A home built in 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008 or 1994–96 needs its permit application date. The field appears exactly when the year you entered requires it.
A roof marked hip that is not one
Enter the non-hip length and the perimeter and the 10% test is computed live, telling you whether it qualifies before you commit to the answer.
Submitting the retired form
Florida’s own site still serves the pre-2026 form at several URLs. This is built on the Rev. 04/26 document adopted under Rule 69O-170.0155, verified against the rulemaking record.
The quirks that are not on the form at all
Citizens asking for roof-slope images. State Farm denying condo opening protection unless the whole building is protected. A county stamp refused without an NOA number. You are warned before you submit, not after.
How it works on site
Built for a phone in the sun
Large targets, high contrast, one question per screen. Everything is saved to the device the moment you touch it, so a dropped signal or a locked screen cannot lose an answer.
Photos that cannot go missing
Every photo is written to local storage before it appears in the list. Nothing is queued in memory waiting for an upload that may never happen.
The answers it can work out, it works out
Question 7 computes the hip roof 10% test live, from the non-hip length and the perimeter, so you know whether it qualifies before you commit. Question 9 is derived from the Opening Protection chart rather than leaving you to decode it.
Nothing leaves your device unless you ask
Reports, photos and the PDF are all produced in the browser. Your photographs are never uploaded, signed in or not. Sign in and your answers are backed up so you can pick a report up on another phone; stay signed out and nothing reaches a server at all.
The form changed on 1 April 2026
Rev. 04/26 replaced a version that had been in use for over a decade. Photographs are now required for questions 2 through 9, not 3 through 7. Question 6 gained a set of minimal qualifying conditions. Most guides online still describe the old numbering.
This tool is built on the document adopted under Rule 69O-170.0155, F.A.C., and checks the rulemaking record for amendments rather than assuming none have been filed.
Which 1802 form is current, and which state URLs still serve the old one — how to tell the two revisions apart, and the three state URLs still handing out the retired one.
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Questions inspectors ask
Which version of the Florida wind mitigation form is current?
OIR-B1-1802 Revision 04/26, adopted by Rule 69O-170.0155, Florida Administrative Code. It replaced a version that had been in use for over a decade. Several Florida state URLs still serve the retired Rev. 01/12 form, so check the revision before submitting.
What changed in the 04/26 revision of OIR-B1-1802?
Photographs are now required for questions 2 through 9, rather than 3 through 7. Question 6 gained a set of minimal qualifying conditions, including a requirement that any retrofit connector or structural fastener use purpose-made connectors installed to manufacturer specification.
Who is allowed to sign a Florida wind mitigation form?
Only the individuals listed in section 627.711(2), Florida Statutes: authorised home inspectors, building code inspectors, licensed contractors, professional engineers and registered architects. Contractors and professional engineers may delegate the inspection to a direct employee.
Why do wind mitigation forms get rejected?
The most common causes are a credited attribute with no supporting photograph, marking a stronger category than the weakest feature actually present on questions 5, 6 and 9, a transition-year home submitted without its permit application date, and a roof marked hip that does not pass the 10% test.
Does the wind mitigation form have to be the official OIR-B1-1802 document?
The uniform form adopted by Rule 69O-170.0155, Florida Administrative Code, is what insurers are required to accept, and submitting it as adopted removes an argument an underwriter can otherwise make. Software that rebuilds the form as its own branded report produces a document that has to be read as equivalent rather than recognised as the form itself, and a reproduction can fall behind a revision without anyone noticing.
Does a wind mitigation inspection need photos?
Yes. Under Rev. 04/26, questions 2 through 9 each require photographic documentation. A missing photograph for a credited attribute is one of the most common reasons an insurer returns the form.