The Arizona Permit Pulse.
The live read on Arizona construction, built from the same daily permit data behind the product. Trailing 30 days across the Arizona cities we cover, refreshed every day. Free to read, free to cite.
Arizona jurisdictions issued 8,226 building permits in the last 30 days, worth ~$1.8B in reported and estimated construction value — down 5% from the prior 30 days across sources that publish daily. Phoenix led with 2,752 permits (33% of statewide volume). The largest single permit was $251.9M in Maricopa County. Builders pulled 209 new single-family permits at a median reported valuation of $387,381.
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Four things the data says out loud
Every figure below is computed from the live corpus and quotable with a link back here. Reporters and analysts: these are the month's headline movements.
HVAC is the month's biggest mover
413 hvac permits issued in the last 30 days, up 12.2% on the prior 30.
City of Maricopa is heating up fastest
City of Maricopa issued 334 permits in the last 30 days — up 33% month over month, the state's fastest climb.
The month's biggest permit is in Maricopa County
A new construction permit at 5526 N 443RD AVE TONOPAH, AZ 85354 valued at $251.9M — the largest issued in the last 30 days.
Yuma issues permits fastest
Median 8 days from application to issued permit — the quickest turnaround of any covered jurisdiction.
The five largest permits of the last 30 days
Reported valuations only — no estimates in this table, so every line is quotable as filed with the issuing jurisdiction. Owner and address are the ones printed on the permit record itself; business entities only.
| Reported value | Jurisdiction | Owner & project |
|---|---|---|
| $251.9M | Maricopa County | Harquahala Flats Battery Energy Storage System, Phase II. REFER TO GRD2600037 for approved 5526 N 443RD AVE TONOPAH, AZ 85354 |
| $251.9M | Maricopa County | Harquahala Flats Electrical Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) for Phase 1 / 6FT CHAINL 5526 N 443RD AVE TONOPAH, AZ 85354 |
| $53M | Phoenix | Temporary certificate of occupancy 18500 N 64TH ST |
| $45.8M | Phoenix | FHG MAYO Clinic Owner LLC Building permit 6475 E MAYO BLVD |
| $44.8M | Mesa | Minor TI in an existing 187,045 SF one-story, construction type III-B, B and S-1 occupancy 4021 S BINARY |
Who started the most homes
New single-family permits issued to each builder in the last 30 days, statewide across our covered jurisdictions — a number no national tracker publishes at this freshness.
Where the permits are being pulled
Permits issued in the last 30 days by jurisdiction, with the change versus the prior 30.
Small-base deltas are suppressed (—): a jurisdiction needs 25+ prior-month permits before a percentage is meaningful.
Hottest ZIP codes — and the Arizona classics
What Arizona is building right now
Permits issued in the last 30 days by category, with the change versus the prior 30 days. An early read on which trades are heating up.
Categories are derived from permit work-class and description; a permit can fall into more than one. Suppliers in any of these trades can see their territory →
Permit volume, month by month
Issued permits across every covered jurisdiction, complete months only — the current month is excluded until it's final, so every bar is quotable.
How fast each city issues a permit
Median days from application to issued permit — measured across our full Arizona permit history. A number you won't find anywhere else.
Five jurisdictions publish both application and issue dates; the statewide median pools them. Cities whose feeds omit application dates can't be timed — we say so rather than guess.
Applications that move faster than the median are a signal worth acting on early. How we measure it →
Use these numbers — just point back here
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Plumb Intelligence, “The Arizona Permit Pulse,” accessed November 2026. plumbintel.com/pulse
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Counts are permits, not projects. One project can carry many permits; we report raw filings, and the product clusters them where it matters.
Trends use steady daily sources only. Month-over-month figures are computed from jurisdictions that publish daily. A few counties publish monthly or weekly reports that land in batches — including them would turn publish timing into a fake market swing, so they count toward totals but never toward a trend.
Dollar figures include labeled estimates. Where a permit doesn’t state a valuation we impute one from real reported distributions — every such figure carries a ~ and is never dressed up as a filed number.
Coverage is Arizona, and still growing. The 22 cities we pull daily across 7 counties — from Phoenix and Mesa to Tucson and Yuma — plus unincorporated-county feeds. Parcel and owner depth is Maricopa County. Issue dates lag the portals by about a day, so recent days fill in over time.
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