What the LA Fire Rebuild Permit Record Shows: Palisades and Altadena, October 2026

Start free trial 7 days, 10 projects: the open rebuilds in Los Angeles, with the builder behind each City permit.

Twenty-one months after the January 2025 fires, the public record shows the rebuild well under way. 1,681 Pacific Palisades properties had City of Los Angeles building permits, 1,481 of them for a new building, and Los Angeles County's fire recovery records held 4,354 properties in Altadena, Pasadena, Malibu and Topanga, 2,065 of them under construction and 285 complete. Builtie counted every record, read October 20, 2026, and this page shows totals, stages and value bands only: no owners, no permit text, no case numbers.

Pacific Palisades: permits by month

The sequence on a rebuilt lot runs grading, then the new building, then pools, walls and other site structures. Very few demolition permits appear (25): fire debris was cleared under the government-run cleanup programme rather than by permit.

Where the Palisades rebuilds stand

"Complete" means a certificate of occupancy was issued; "Finaled" means the building permit passed its last inspection. Every other stage is Builtie's estimate from the permit date and type. Of the new-building rebuilds, 470 are on the City's like-for-like track ("eligible" under Emergency Executive Order 1) and 184 went through standard review ("ineligible"); the rest carry neither word.

Altadena, Pasadena, Malibu and Topanga: the County's seven steps

Los Angeles County tracks each fire recovery case through seven steps, from application received to construction completed; the table counts each property at the furthest step on any of its cases. By community: Altadena 3,917, Malibu 281, Pasadena 133, Topanga 23. Pasadena's own city permits (104 properties) carry a status but no dates, so their step is approximate.

Applications and permits by month, County areas

7 records with dates before January 2025 are left out of the chart (cases opened before the fire and later linked to it). Applications ran ahead of permits through 2025; since early 2026 permits have kept pace.

What the rebuilds are worth

The value is the one declared on the permit or case, the largest per property, shown as a band. Declared values usually sit below the contract price, and no total is given here: a few large commercial permits would dominate it.

How many name a contractor

In the City's permits the builder is a company Builtie's matching typed as a general contractor or builder, never a person, and trades and architects are left out. The County's fire recovery cases carry no contractor field, so Builtie makes no builder claim for Altadena, Malibu, Pasadena or Topanga. Company names are on the Palisades tracker, not here.

What kind of rebuild, County areas

1,951 properties are marked like-for-like in the County record and 619 are not; 1,784 carry no mark.

The busiest rebuild streets

Pacific Palisades

Altadena, Pasadena, Malibu and Topanga

Every street and property: Pacific Palisades fire rebuild tracker, Altadena and Pasadena Eaton Fire rebuild tracker, Malibu and Topanga Palisades Fire rebuild tracker, Los Angeles wildfire rebuild tracker (all five areas).

Method and sources

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