Central Oregon
Deschutes County, Oregon Building Department and Permits
Deschutes County, Oregon building department and permit records in one place. See the issuing agency, the search portal, and what the record can miss.
Wildfire code, section R327
Adopted, in effect in effect 2026-04-01 adopted 2026-01-28 ord. 2026-002
Verified fields
Permit authority
- authority
- Deschutes County Community Development, Building Safety Division
- address
- 1300 NW Wall St., Bend, OR 97703, Deschutes Services Building
- lbdd corroboration
- State directory lists "Deschutes County", building official Krista Appleby, phone 541-388-6575.
Design criteria
- soil bearing psf
- 1500
- verbatim
- Criteria not found on the Criteria Hub are: Soil Bearing Capacity: 1,500 psf
- ground snow
- NOT PUBLISHED BY THE COUNTY. Deferred to the Oregon Design Criteria Hub.
- wind
- NOT PUBLISHED BY THE COUNTY. Deferred to the Oregon Design Criteria Hub.
- seismic
- NOT PUBLISHED BY THE COUNTY. Deferred to the Oregon Design Criteria Hub.
- frost depth
- NOT PUBLISHED BY THE COUNTY. Deferred to the Oregon Design Criteria Hub.
Permit search
- county tools
- Deschutes publishes its own Property and Permit Research Tools page alongside the state portal.
- date range
- NOT DETERMINED. Neither the county nor the state portal publishes an earliest-record date for Deschutes.
Lbdd directory
- bcd administered
- No
- jurisdictions serving this county
- Bend, Deschutes County, Redmond
- jurisdiction count
- 3
The record is half the picture
A permit search shows what was filed, not what was built. The gap between the two is what a general home inspection exists to find.
Anyone inspecting in Deschutes County must hold a live state certification. Verify an inspector before the report is ordered, not after.
Cities in this county with a filed record
Neighboring counties in Central Oregon