Our Westside page follows the City of LA's West Los Angeles planning area. It includes Palms-Mar Vista-Del Rey, Brentwood-Pacific Palisades, West Los Angeles, Westchester-Playa del Rey, Venice, Bel Air-Beverly Crest and Westwood. Santa Monica, Culver City and Beverly Hills are separate cities and are not counted. For rules that cover every part of the city, see our Los Angeles area guide.
Two very different fire pictures
The Westside splits into canyon areas and flat areas. We placed every reroof permit address on CAL FIRE's 2025 recommended local fire hazard map. Across the whole Westside, about 26% of permits were in a Very High zone. The split by plan area is stark:
| Plan area | Reroof permits, 2021 to Oct. 2026 | Share in a Very High zone |
|---|---|---|
| Palms-Mar Vista-Del Rey | 2,279 | 0% |
| Brentwood-Pacific Palisades | 1,788 | 85% |
| West Los Angeles | 1,642 | 0% |
| Westchester-Playa del Rey | 1,562 | 0% |
| Venice | 1,109 | 0% |
| Bel Air-Beverly Crest | 988 | 100% |
| Westwood | 561 | 9% |
These shares are our own calculation from public map data. Confirm any one address with the state map viewer. Homes in Very High zones face the Class A and ember rules in our wildfire roofing guide. Fire zone status can also affect home insurance. See insurance in fire zones.
Permit counts over time
Permits were counted from the city's open data when the work description included "reroof," "re-roof" or "re roof." The Westside total is 9,929:
- 2021: 1,037
- 2022: 1,298
- 2023: 1,914
- 2024: 2,167
- 2025: 1,797
- 2026 to October 31: 1,716
About 80% were for 1 or 2 family homes. The citywide share was about 82%. The ZIPs with the most permits were 90066 (1,339), 90045 (1,200), 90049 (1,042), 90291 (931), 90064 (898) and 90272 (807). These are issued permits, not completed jobs.
After the Palisades fire
Pacific Palisades (90272) is in this area. Its reroof count was 191 in 2024, 144 in 2025 and 124 through October 2026. Homes that burned are rebuilt under building permits for a new house, which our reroof filter does not catch. The county's recovery site lists recovery.lacity.gov as the City of LA's own rebuild resource. A rebuilt roof still has to meet current building and fire codes.
Housing age by ZIP
From Census survey data (ACS 2024 5-year):
- 90066 (Mar Vista, Del Rey): median built 1967; 72% before 1980.
- 90045 (Westchester): median 1960; 63% before 1980.
- 90049 (Brentwood): median 1968; 69% before 1980.
- 90291 (Venice): median 1959; 26% built 1939 or earlier.
- 90064 (West LA): median 1964; 20% built 1939 or earlier.
- 90272 (Pacific Palisades): median 1967; 80% owner-occupied.
Mostly climate zone 6
About two-thirds of Westside permits were in ZIPs the Energy Commission lists as Building Climate Zone 6. Those include 90066, 90045, 90049, 90291 and 90272. Zone 6 is not on the state's steep-slope cool roof list, which covers Zones 4 and 8 through 15. Low-slope reroofs in Zone 6 are covered. Some inland ZIPs differ. The list puts 90064, 90024, 90077 and 90210 in Zone 9, and 90034 and 90230 in Zone 8.
The state rule is only part of it. The City of LA has its own cool roof rule for reroofs that replace more than half the roof. Our cool roofs guide has the values.
One historic district
The city's HPOZ list includes the Gregory Ain Mar Vista Tract. Its screening form treats "Roof Repair/Reroof" as a project type, so check with City Planning before a reroof there.
Sources
- City of Los Angeles Open Data: Building and Safety, Building Permits Issued from 2020 to Present (data through 2026-10-31)
- 2025 Recommended LRA Fire Hazard Severity Zones, LA County data layer (FHSZLRA25_Phase4_v1)
- Census Reporter, ACS 2024 5-year, Median Year Structure Built (B25035) by ZIP
- California Energy Commission, Building Climate Zones by ZIP Code
- Cool Roof Rating Council, Chart of 2025 CA Energy Code Cool Roof Requirements (2025-12-04)
- LADWP and LADBS, Cool Roofs: What You Need to Know (Rev 07 2022)
- LA County Recovery: Like-For-Like Rebuild
- LA City Planning, HPOZ Initial Screening Checklist
