Westside Rebuild Tracker: LADBS permits since the January 2025 fires

21 months after the Palisades Fire, the rebuild is visible one permit at a time. This page counts them, and shows what the permits themselves say about how the Westside is being rebuilt.

What the permits say

Of the 2,816 new 1–2 family building permits filed in the four areas since 2025-01-08, 1,857 carry the LADBS "2025 wildfire rebuild" work description, almost all of them in Pacific Palisades. 1,761 permits are issued and presumably under construction, 82 have reached a Certificate of Occupancy or final, and 969 are still in plan check or verification.

On construction type, the permits are explicit. Where a type is declared, 99.4% (2,601 permits) are Type V, the wood-frame category, and 0.4% (11) are Type I or II, the non-combustible category that covers reinforced concrete and steel structures. We publish this share without editorial spin: it is the clearest public measure of how much of the Westside is being rebuilt with the same structural logic as before.

By area

Status of all permits

Declared construction type

Type V-A and V-B are wood-frame; Type I and II are non-combustible (concrete, masonry, steel); Type III/IV are mixed or heavy-timber assemblies. The type is declared by the applicant on the permit and is not verified by us.

Permits by month

"Submitted" is the month the application was filed; "Issued" the month the permit was granted (all areas). The current month is partial.

Tracker history

Each weekly refresh adds a row, so the pipeline can be read over time.

Method

• Source. City of Los Angeles Open Data portal, dataset Building and Safety - Building Permits Submitted from 2020 to Present (id gwh9-jnip), queried through the public SODA API without a token. The companion Permits Issued dataset (pi9x-tg5x) was used to verify the fields. LADBS refreshes the data weekly.
• Filter. permit_type = "Bldg-New", permit_sub_type = "1 or 2 Family Dwelling", submitted_date ≥ 2025-01-08, ZIP codes 90049, 90077, 90210, 90272, 91316, 91356, 91436. Additions, alterations, grading, pools and demolitions are excluded. Accessory dwelling units and garages filed as separate new-building permits are included and shown by use in the CSV.
• Areas. Pacific Palisades = 90272; Brentwood = 90049; Bel Air / Beverly Crest = 90077 and the City of Los Angeles portion of 90210; Encino / Tarzana = 91316, 91356, 91436. The CSV keeps the LADBS community plan area and hillside flag for each permit.
• Wildfire rebuild flag. Set when the permit's work description contains "WILDFIRE REBUILD", the wording LADBS uses for post-fire reconstruction.
• Construction type. Taken from the permit's construction field (California Building Code Types I–V) exactly as declared by the applicant.
• Status. LADBS status_desc grouped into four buckets: in plan check, issued, completed (CofO issued or permit finaled), withdrawn / inactive.
• Refresh. Rebuilt automatically every Monday at 05:30 UTC. Retrieval date is printed on the chart and in the JSON.

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<a href="https://myvilla.la/research/westside-rebuild-tracker.html"><img src="https://myvilla.la/research/img/westside-rebuild-tracker.png" alt="Westside Rebuild Tracker — LADBS new-home permits since January 2025 (My Villa)" width="1200" style="max-width:100%;height:auto"></a>
<p>Source: <a href="https://myvilla.la/research/westside-rebuild-tracker.html">Westside Rebuild Tracker</a> by My Villa, from City of Los Angeles / LADBS open data. Updated 2026-10-26.</p>