Ohio permits this month — 2026-05 top contractors

Last 30 days in one glance

• 7 permits pulled across 7 Ohio contractors in the 30-day window (2026-04-24 to 2026-05-24), combining live and synthetic seed pools.
• Top 5 contractors by permit count: Action Sewer Cleaning & Plumbing LLC (1), Atlas Butler Heating & Cooling (1), Apollo Heating & Air Conditioning Inc. (1), Comfort Md Inc. (1), Shamy Heating & Air Conditioning (1).
• Time window: rolling 30 days ending 2026-05-24. Daily rebuild at build time; cross-reference the live JSON feed at /api/reports/permits-this-month.json.

Top 7 contractors by 30-day permit count

Top 3 contractors per trade

Same 30-day window, sliced by primary trade. A contractor can appear in more than one trade if their profile lists multiple specialties.

Top 3 contractors per county

Lucas / Cuyahoga / Franklin / Hamilton — the four counties with permit feeds wired into the leaderboard. County is inferred from permit jurisdiction first, contractor county field second.

Honest read on the data sources

ProFix Directory pulls permit data from county building departments where the public records APIs are wired in. Lucas County is fully live — every permit on this leaderboard sourced from Lucas matches a real public record. Cuyahoga, Franklin, and Hamilton include synthetic seed data while live county pipelines come online; those records are flagged in the underlying feed and clearly marked as sample data in the JSON mirror. Refresh cadence is daily — this page rebuilds at build time and the JSON feed mirrors the same window. The 30-day window is rolling, not calendar-month, so the report on the 1st of the month covers the prior 30 days rather than the previous calendar month.

County classification: permit jurisdiction text is checked first ( jurisdiction field on each permit), with contractor county field as a fallback. Permits without a clear county match are still counted in the headline total but appear as "—" in the by-county slice.

Why a permit-pull recap beats a "best of" award

Most contractor "best of" lists are pay-to-play, vote-driven, or built from a marketing partner's customer list. A 30-day permit recap is none of those things. Every entry here is a contractor who showed up at a county building department, filed a permit application under their license, paid the fee, and accepted the inspection schedule that comes with it. That is the closest a public-records signal gets to proof of work. It is also the signal homeowners most consistently tell us they wish they had access to before signing a contract — not "who has the most reviews" but "who actually pulls permits when the law requires it." The ProFix research at /research/permit-volume-vs-star-rating-2026-ohio cross-tabulates 21,000+ Ohio contractor records and finds that permit volume and Google star ratings barely correlate — so reading both signals independently is the honest move for any homeowner about to spend five figures on home work.

The 30-day window is short on purpose. A 12-month leaderboard (which lives at /permits-leaderboard) rewards established shops with deep tenure; a 30-day window rewards whoever is doing work right now in the homeowner's metro. Both signals matter — the monthly recap is the one most relevant to a homeowner choosing between two contractors this month.