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California county death feed: new obituaries in every county

One subscription. Every county in California. See new obituaries as they're published, the relatives named in them, and possible property matches where available. That gives investors, agents, trust managers, skip tracers and proptech teams an earlier start on their research. Relatives named in an obituary are not a legal determination of heirs. $249 a month per state after a 5-day free trial. Pull all counties or filter to a single county with county_slug.

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California Death & Obituary Data

Aggregate metrics from ObituaryMonitor's eligible Daily County Intelligence notice universe: not official vital statistics.

1,553

Deaths detected in the last 7 days

7,568

Deaths detected in the last 30 days

660

Active sources monitored (30 days)

53

Counties with recent activity

2 hours ago

Latest snapshot refresh

Data updated 2 hours ago

California Death Data by County

53 counties with recent activity

Explore recent death and obituary activity detected across supported counties. Search the coverage table below to see where eligible Daily County Intelligence records have been detected during the last 30 days.

County30-day recordsSourcesLatest activityStatus
Los Angeles County1,704118TodayActive
Kern County79028YesterdayActive
San Diego County57650TodayActive
Riverside County46041TodayActive
Alameda County39730TodayActive
San Bernardino County36340TodayActive
Orange County30535TodayActive
Sacramento County25621TodayActive
Fresno County24828YesterdayActive
San Mateo County23620TodayActive
Contra Costa County18224TodayActive
Tulare County14814YesterdayActive
Ventura County13012TodayActive
Santa Clara County12818TodayActive
Monterey County12010TodayActive

Recent Deaths Detected Across California

Counts of death and obituary records detected by ObituaryMonitor, not official state mortality totals.

Last 7 days

1,553

Previous 7 days: 1,686 · -8% vs prior period

Last 30 days

7,568

Previous 30 days: 18,935 · -60% vs prior period

These figures represent records detected by ObituaryMonitor and should not be interpreted as official state mortality statistics.

What California Death & Obituary Records Can Include

Field availability across recent eligible California Daily County Intelligence records (trailing 30 days).

Name

100%

of recent California records

Date of death

100%

of recent California records

City / location

99.2%

of recent California records

County

100%

of recent California records

Source URL

100%

of recent California records

Funeral home / publisher

100%

of recent California records

Notice text read

74.1%

of recent California records

Where ObituaryMonitor Detects California Death & Obituary Data

Cities with recent eligible activity (not a complete list of every community).

Bakersfield693Wilmington628San Diego342Oakland198Arcadia176Sacramento142Fresno140Los Angeles114San Mateo101Redding100Riverside97Bradbury83

California Funeral Homes & Obituary Sources

ObituaryMonitor monitors funeral homes and obituary sources across California to detect newly published death and obituary information. Eligible records become available through Daily County Intelligence. Listing a source here does not imply a partnership.

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How California Daily County Intelligence Works

  1. ObituaryMonitor monitors 17,565+ funeral-home and newspaper sources.
  2. New death records are detected and normalized.
  3. Geographic information is assigned where supported.
  4. Eligible California records become available through Daily County Intelligence.
  5. Customers receive new records through API, CSV, or portal delivery.

Data is continuously collected from monitored sources, not sold as a static list.

Access California Death Data Your Way

API

Receive eligible California death and obituary records programmatically in JSON.

Explore the Daily County Intelligence →

CSV

Download or export records for operational workflows and CRM import.

Web Portal

Review and filter new California records through the ObituaryMonitor portal.

Who Uses California Death Data?

Real Estate Investors

Monitor newly detected deaths across every county in California for potential probate or inherited-property research.

Probate & Legal Services

Identify recent deaths within geographic service areas and support downstream estate workflows.

Financial Institutions

Use death signals as an additional input in deceased-customer and risk-monitoring processes. Financial institutions monitoring

Data & Software Companies

Integrate normalized death and obituary data into software products and operational systems.

Research / Operations

Monitor county-level death events without manually checking individual obituary websites.

Example California Death Data API Record

Illustrative sample record, not an actual person.

{
  "id": "fh-sample",
  "full_name": "Sample Person",
  "first_name": "Sample",
  "last_name": "Person",
  "date_of_death": "2026-08-08",
  "state": "CA",
  "county": "Los Angeles",
  "county_slug": "los-angeles-county-ca",
  "city": "Los Angeles",
  "source_type": "funeral_home",
  "obituary_url": "https://example.com/sample",
  "funeral_home_name": "Example Funeral Home",
  "indexed_at": "2026-08-08T14:22:00.000Z",
  "survivors_status": "ok"
}

This example shows the structure of an eligible Daily County Intelligence record. Field names follow the public Daily County Intelligence notice schema. Internal-only fields are omitted.

California Death Data & Daily County Intelligence FAQ

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Also see the county death feed API and Browse California Funeral Homes.