How permitsearch.us works

permitsearch.us aggregates building-permit records from county and municipal government permit portals across the United States, together with public parcel facts (county property-appraiser and cadastral data) and public hazard layers (FEMA, USGS).

What “on file” means

When a page says an address has N permits on file, that means N permit records in our store for that address — the records we hold, not every permit ever issued anywhere. A zero simply means we hold no records for that address yet.

Update cadence

Permit records are updated continuously as sources sync; hub statistics (state and city pages) are rematerialized nightly. Property pages carry a “records updated” date; hub pages state when their figures were generated.

Coverage

Coverage varies by jurisdiction: some publish long histories, others only recent years, and some are not yet machine-readable. Pages carry a coverage note while our records for an area are still growing, and coverage expands as new sources come online.

Limits

A permit history reflects what was filed with the permitting jurisdiction. It is not an assessment of a property’s current condition, and it is not a substitute for a home inspection or for a records request to the jurisdiction itself. permitsearch.us is not affiliated with any government agency.

Corrections

If a record looks wrong, email [email protected] with the address and what you found — we investigate and correct our records.