Is the wind mitigation report I had done in 2025 still valid?

Generally yes. A report completed before 1 April 2026 on the retired Rev. 01/12 form keeps its ordinary five-year validity, and Citizens has stated it will continue to accept the previous version where it was completed within the five years prior to that date. What changed is which form a new inspection must use: any inspection performed on or after 1 April 2026 is documented on Rev. 04/26.

How many pages is the 2026 Florida wind mitigation form?

Six. OIR-B1-1802 (Rev. 04/26) runs to six pages and requires photographic documentation for questions 2 through 9. The retired Rev. 01/12 is four pages and required photographs for questions 3 through 7, so the page count alone tells you which revision you are holding before you read a word of it.

Where can I download the current OIR-B1-1802 form?

From floir.gov, but only from the file named “adopted version (no watermark)” — several other 1802 URLs on that site still serve the retired Rev. 01/12. The document that legally defines the form is the one the Florida Administrative Code publishes under Rule 69O-170.0155: reference Ref-18852, adopted 18 December 2025, with no modified document filed against it since.

What happens if an inspector uses the old wind mitigation form?

An inspection performed on or after 1 April 2026 is required to be documented on Rev. 04/26, so a report submitted on the retired form can be returned by the insurer and the inspection re-documented. The risk falls hardest on inspectors who download a fresh blank from a bookmarked state URL each time, because several of those URLs still hand out the old version.

Which 1802 form is current, and which state URLs still serve the old one

Published by Florida Wind Mit · Last verified 6 September 2026

OIR-B1-1802 Revision 04/26 is the current form. It was adopted on 18 December 2025 under Rule 69O-170.0155, Florida Administrative Code, and applies to inspections performed on or after 1 April 2026. It runs to six pages and requires photographic documentation for questions 2 through 9. The version it replaced, Rev. 01/12, is four pages.

The complication is that downloading the wrong one is easy. As of 6 September 2026, at least three URLs on Florida state and state-created insurer websites still serve the retired Rev. 01/12 — five months after the revision took effect. This page names them, shows how to tell the two revisions apart in a few seconds, and links the record that legally defines which is current.

How do I tell which revision I have?

Open the PDF and check the page count first; it is the fastest signal and it is unambiguous. Then read the footer.

	Retired — Rev. 01/12	Current — Rev. 04/26
Pages	4	6
Footer	`OIR-B1-1802 (Rev. 01/12)`	`OIR-B1-1802 (Rev. 04/26) Adopted by Rule 69O-170.0155, F.A.C.`
Photographs required for	Questions 3 through 7 — printed on the form as `questions 3 though 7`	Questions 2 through 9
Question 6	Roof-to-wall attachment, no qualifying conditions block	Adds “minimal conditions to qualify for categories B, C, or D”, including that a retrofit connector or structural fastener use purpose-made connectors installed to manufacturer specification
FORTIFIED designations	Not referenced	Accepted as documentation substituting for questions 4 through 6, and 8 through 9

The typo is genuinely in the retired form — it reads “though” where it means “through” — and that makes it a reliable fingerprint. If the photograph note on the document in front of you mentions questions 3 and 7, you are holding the old form.

Which URLs still serve the retired form?

Each row below was checked on 6 September 2026. The method is described at the foot of this page, so you can repeat it rather than take this on trust.

Where	What it serves	Checked
`citizensfla.com/documents/20702/31330/Uniform+Mitigation+Verification+Inspection+Form+OIR-B1-1802/…`	Rev. 01/12	Downloaded directly. Four pages, 01/12 footer, “questions 3 though 7”.
`floir.gov/docs-sf/default-source/property-and-casualty/oir-b1-1802.pdf`	Rev. 01/12	Unchanged in an archived copy taken 1 September 2026.
`floir.gov/docs-sf/property-casualty-libraries/product-review/all-forms/oir-b1-1802.pdf`	Rev. 01/12	Unchanged in an archived copy taken 9 June 2026.
`…/product-review/all-forms/form-oir-1802-adopted-version-(no-watermark).pdf`	Rev. 04/26	The one correct URL of the four.

The words “adopted version” are what distinguish it

On floir.gov, the filename qualifier is the only thing separating the current form from the retired one. A link that ends oir-b1-1802.pdf is the old form; the file named form-oir-1802-adopted-version-(no-watermark).pdf is the current one. That is a weak distinction to hang a submission on, which is the reason this page exists.

None of this is an accusation of anything. Large organisations serve documents from several libraries, and old copies persist in all of them. But an inspector who follows the obvious link on the state’s own website downloads a retired form, and that is worth knowing before rather than after.

Is the old form still accepted?

This is where most summaries blur two different questions. They have different answers:

An inspection performed on or after 1 April 2026 must be documented on Rev. 04/26. Submitting the retired form for a new inspection is the failure mode this page is about.
A report completed before 1 April 2026 on Rev. 01/12 does not become void on that date. Citizens states in its 19 March 2026 notice that it will continue to accept the previous version where it was completed within the five years prior to 1 April 2026 — the ordinary five-year validity window, unchanged.

So a homeowner with a 2023 wind mitigation report generally does not need a new inspection merely because the form changed. An inspector going out this week does need the new form.

Where is the authoritative copy?

Not on a PDF library page — in the rulemaking record. The form has legal force because Rule 69O-170.0155, F.A.C., incorporates it by reference, and the Florida Administrative Code publishes the document each rule incorporates. That record is what actually defines the current form:

The rule, 69O-170.0155 — and which reference number it incorporates.
Reference record Ref-18852 — the adopted document is FORM OIR-1802.docx, dated 12/18/2025. Modified documents: none.
The rendered PDF — floir.gov’s “adopted version (no watermark)”.

“No modified documents” is the useful part, and it is the question the PDF libraries cannot answer. It means no correction or amendment has been filed against the form since it was adopted, so nothing newer exists than the document at that reference.

How this page was verified

Stating a method matters more than usual here, because this page asserts things about documents other organisations publish, and those documents can change without notice.

The Citizens copy was downloaded and read. 336,375 bytes; SHA-1, base32 encoded, KHHZXLAWMK732GA6TUMTHQGIRJKQQ5N7. Four pages; the extracted text contains Rev. 01/12 and questions 3 though 7 and no occurrence of 04/26.
The floir.gov copies were checked through the Internet Archive rather than directly. Florida’s state web infrastructure does not answer requests from outside the United States, so a direct fetch is not available from everywhere. Both retired-form URLs carry content digest GDBQ4VTMVDSEONNLFJY62C4TGCAPEMOF in every 2026 capture, the most recent being 1 September 2026.
The adopted document was read at the source. The reference record at flrules.org is checked automatically against what this site was built from, including whether any modified document has been filed.

If you find one of these URLs now serving the current form, that is good news and this page is wrong — tell us and it will be corrected with the date.

Common questions

Is the wind mitigation report I had done in 2025 still valid?: Generally yes. A report completed before 1 April 2026 on the retired Rev. 01/12 form keeps its ordinary five-year validity, and Citizens has stated it will continue to accept the previous version where it was completed within the five years prior to that date. What changed is which form a new inspection must use: any inspection performed on or after 1 April 2026 is documented on Rev. 04/26.
How many pages is the 2026 Florida wind mitigation form?: Six. OIR-B1-1802 (Rev. 04/26) runs to six pages and requires photographic documentation for questions 2 through 9. The retired Rev. 01/12 is four pages and required photographs for questions 3 through 7, so the page count alone tells you which revision you are holding before you read a word of it.
Where can I download the current OIR-B1-1802 form?: From floir.gov, but only from the file named “adopted version (no watermark)” — several other 1802 URLs on that site still serve the retired Rev. 01/12. The document that legally defines the form is the one the Florida Administrative Code publishes under Rule 69O-170.0155: reference Ref-18852, adopted 18 December 2025, with no modified document filed against it since.
What happens if an inspector uses the old wind mitigation form?: An inspection performed on or after 1 April 2026 is required to be documented on Rev. 04/26, so a report submitted on the retired form can be returned by the insurer and the inspection re-documented. The risk falls hardest on inspectors who download a fresh blank from a bookmarked state URL each time, because several of those URLs still hand out the old version.

Why we know this in such detail

Florida Wind Mit is a tool for completing the 1802 on a phone at the property. It writes the inspector’s answers onto the adopted OIR PDF itself rather than rebuilding the form as a branded report, which meant establishing exactly which document is adopted, and keeping a check running against the rulemaking record. This page is a by-product of that work.

A related question, if it is the one you actually came with: does a wind mitigation report have to be the official OIR-B1-1802 document?