HistoricPlacesLA is an online tool created specifically for the City of Los Angeles to inventory, map, and help protect significant cultural and historic resources. HistoricPlacesLA showcases the diversity of the city’s historic resources, including architecturally significant buildings, places of social importance, historic districts, bridges, parks, landscapes, and more. It documents both designated and potentially eligible historic resources.

Palisades Fire Damage Assessments

The Palisades Fire of January 2025 caused widespread destruction and damage to cherished historic places, particularly within the close-knit community of Pacific Palisades. In the aftermath of the fire, LA City Planning's Office of Historic Resources collaborated with multiple governmental agencies and external partners to compile an assessment of the fire's impacts to the community's cherished architectural and cultural legacy.

This HistoricPlacesLA featured search -- Palisades Fire: Damage Assessments -- highlights previously identified and designated historic places located within or near the fire footprint and for which damage assessment data has been collected. Each record includes the original historic resource assessment or designation, as well as post-fire photographs and damage assessments.

This updated information and associated images come from fire damage assessments conducted by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS), and Los Angeles City Planning (LACP).

The assessment provides a vivid summary of the historic places we have lost, as well as the many significant historic resources that, thankfully, remain intact.

User Guides

Use HistoricPlacesLA to conduct research on a site or property, discover unique places, and explore LA’s rich history. To learn more about HistoricPlacesLA and how to search the inventory, see the video and user guides below.

Click on the thumbnails below to access the video guides.