Buncombe County can require a stormwater bond under its stormwater ordinance — financial assurance that you build and maintain the stormwater control measures on your approved plan. The county sets the amount; we issue it at a flat 3% with one soft credit pull.
















Enter your amount, consent to a soft pull, and file with the county. Here is the whole thing:
Your business details, the bond amount the county required, and the effective date — plus a one-time consent to a soft credit pull.
Most clear quickly; if underwriting needs anything, you hear from an underwriter within 48 hours. The soft pull never affects your credit score.
Submit the executed bond to the county with your stormwater / development permit. Wet-ink originals mailed whenever the county insists.
Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure Buncombe County set and the premium updates.
Buncombe County administers a stormwater ordinance governing development and land-disturbing activity in the mountains around Asheville. As a condition of approval, the county can require a surety bond as financial assurance for the stormwater control measures — detention, infiltration, and water-quality structures — on your approved plan.
The bond runs to Buncombe County as obligee. It guarantees you will build the stormwater control measures to the approved design and, where required, maintain them — so the county has funds to complete or correct the work if you don't, protecting the watershed downstream.
It is a guarantee, not insurance for you: if the county draws on the bond because the stormwater measures weren't built or maintained, you repay the surety. Once the measures are installed, inspected, and accepted, the obligation is released or stepped down to a maintenance amount.
Submit the application with the bond amount Buncombe County set — the executed bond is typically issued within 1–2 business days.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum, soft pull only. Enter the amount the county required and file the same week.