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Nassau County, Florida building permits

According to permitsearch.us records, 29,900 permit records are on file for Nassau County, Florida (2002–2051).

Our records for this area are growing — figures reflect permits on file, not every permit ever issued.

Permits on file by year

Permit records on file by year, 2017 to 202601,0002,0003,0004,0005,0002017: 0 records on file20172018: 0 records on file20182019: 3,689 records on file20192020: 3,766 records on file20202021: 3,958 records on file20213,9582022: 3,606 records on file20222023: 3,286 records on file20232024: 3,104 records on file20242025: 3,017 records on file20252026: 1,776 records on file2026
Show yearly totals
YearRecords on file
20170
20180
20193,689
20203,766
20213,958
20223,606
20233,286
20243,104
20253,017
20261,776

Top work types in our records

Top work types in our recordselectricalelectrical: 5,209 records on file5,209mechanicalmechanical: 4,457 records on file4,457roofingroofing: 3,471 records on file3,471buildingbuilding: 3,418 records on file3,418plumbingplumbing: 2,793 records on file2,793

72% of records on file show a final or completed status.

72% of records on file show a final or completed status72%

Recent permits

Permits by type

Permit records by address

Browse the 13 Nassau County addresses with permit-record pages on file

Permit records in Nassau County: what to know

Our Nassau County records come from two systems: the county's, and Fernandina Beach's own city permitting. Nassau mixes a historic island city with fast-growing mainland communities like Yulee and Wildlight, and the age of the housing stock varies just as widely — which makes the permit trail especially useful for telling a renovated older home from one that has had little work on record.

In Florida, permit history has money attached to it. Insurers commonly ask how old a roof is and whether wind-resistance upgrades were done with permits on record; a roof permit from the last 15 years, or a documented wind mitigation feature, can be the difference between an easy policy and an expensive one. When our records show a roof or wind-mitigation permit for an address, that record is worth carrying into your insurance conversation.

When you're buying, compare what you can see at the house against what the records show. A kitchen, room addition, or enclosed garage with no matching permit record is a question worth asking before closing — unpermitted work can surface later in appraisals, insurance underwriting, and resale. A home inspection looks at how the work performs; the permit trail shows whether it was reviewed when it was done. You want both. What do these findings look like in a real house? The inspectors behind this site publish anonymized examples in their field notes.

Our records are a research starting point, not the authority. For a decision that hangs on a specific permit, confirm it with Nassau County or the City of Fernandina Beach directly — jurisdictions can hold records that have not yet reached our store.

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Based on 29,900 permit records on file from Nassau County (Munis CSS), City of Fernandina Beach (EnerGov), 2002–2051. Last updated 2026-08-20.

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