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New construction permits across Montana's fastest-growing areas, mapped and updated as new data comes in. Not every county has a public feed yet — see the status key below.

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Commercial Residential Other / mixed

Click any pin for permit details. Numbered circles group permits that are close together or at the same address — click once to split a cluster apart, and keep zooming in to spread out pins stacked at an identical location.

Permit data comes directly from each city or county's own public records — see a pin's popup for its source. "Commercial" and "residential" reflect each jurisdiction's own permit classification, not an independent judgment call by the406.news.

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