The City of Malibu provides the following resources to support property owners during the rebuild process after the Palisades fire. These tools will help you access important information about your property, submit development applications, and understand regulatory requirements that may affect your rebuilding plans.
Access historical aerial photos from 1993 to help establish the previous condition of your property.
How to locate your property:
- Open the sheet index at the top of the list of PDF files
- Locate the general area of your home based on the numbered rectangle. This may require zooming in, and you may need to open more than one numbered rectangle to identify your parcel if the property is located on the border of two numbered rectangles.
- You also may need to utilize another mapping program such as Google Maps or the Malibu Community Viewer on the city’s homepage to help you further pinpoint the property as the topography/road locations may have changed over the years in some instances due to fires, development, road re-alignment etc.
- Open the corresponding numbered rectangle in the list of PDFs below per the sheet index
- Save to your computer
If you are unable to locate the aerial you need, please contact staff in the Planning Department, or file a request for public information at www.malibucity.org/records via NextRequest.
Interactive mapping tool that provides access to City geographical information to assist with your rebuild project.
Applicants or owners can submit projects, view status updates, and manage documents and fees. You will have access to individual projects, real-time updates, departments’ revisions, required documents, and fee information. Other features include managing inspection requests and researching public documents.
If your property is located within a Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA), please contact Public Works early in your design process to confirm your FEMA Base Flood Elevation (BFE). Knowing your BFE at the beginning of the design process will help expedite your project review. You can also check your BFE directly using the FEMA Flood Map Service Center.
As part of a rebuild design, property owners are required to consider building in an established Primary View Determination. In order to assist property owners with their rebuild design, the City has added all Primary View Determinations to the City’s GIS. User Tip: Under the Layers List, select the Primary View Determination checkbox and zoom in.
The City of Malibu ESD Geology Department has prepared these guidelines to assist property owners in safely and expeditiously rebuilding their fire-damaged properties. Emphasis is placed on allowing the use of existing geologic and geotechnical information for eligible properties to reduce time and costs typically associated with the preparation of a comprehensive engineering geologic and geotechnical engineering report. These guidelines may be modified in the future as required by the Building Official.
California Coastal Commission public online access to Coastal Data Management System, where you can view information related to the Commission’s local coastal planning, development permitting, and other related activities along California’s coast. Currently our online data is limited to Commission actions since approximately 1980.
The California Coastal Records Project (CCRP), a non-profit, hosts an aerial photographic database that has been documenting the California coastline periodically since 2002. The website also provides a baseline of how this section of the coast appeared as recently as 2024 vs. how it appears in February of 2025 after the fires.
This website provides basic data about parcel including Assessor Parcel Number, general property value, print out of parcel map and aerial map.