Willamette Valley
Home Inspection in Salem, Oregon
Home inspection in Salem, Oregon starts with the permit record. See permit agencies, wildfire code status, and the local conditions that matter.
Wildfire code, section R327
No adoption record found checked 2026-08-05
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Permit application center portal
- canonical
- https://permits.cityofsalem.net/PACPortal/Search. The egov.cityofsalem.net host serves the identical app.
- account
- No
Contact
- phone
- 503-588-6256
- [email protected]
- address
- 440 Church St SE, 5th Floor, Salem. PO Box 14300, Salem OR 97309.
- address correction
- Third-party permit guides still publish the old 555 Liberty St SE Room 320 City Hall address. The city own current pages say 440 Church St SE.
- building official
- Al Rossi, 503-949-5895, [email protected]
Seismic retrofit permit
Seismic retrofit is a named permit type in the PAC Portal application list, alongside reroof and solar.Useful: it means retrofit work leaves a searchable permit record, so a buyer can check whether a house was actually bolted.
Housing stock
- vintage
- ACS 2020-2024 5-Year
- census fips
- 4164900
- median year built
- 1980
- total units
- 71124
- pre 1940 pct
- 8.8
- pre 1970 pct
- 32.2
Snow load region
- region
- Willamette Valley
- ground snow adjustment psf per ft
- 0.04
- means
- Ground snow load rises by this many psf for each foot of elevation gain within this region.