Lackawanna County publishes assessment appeal hearings and results as PDFs. Those files are the official record — but they are hard to search if you want one parcel, one owner, or a sense of how values moved after a hearing.

We now keep a searchable index of those hearings on Lackawanna Connect. 2025 covers the reassessment appeal cycle: 4,968 parcels that appeared on county hearing schedules, with pre-hearing and post-hearing assessed values. 2026 covers the current annual cycle as new county reports are ingested. Each row links to the parcel in Parcel Explorer.

Look it up: Appeals hub · 2025 results · 2026 hearings and results

What is a property assessment appeal in Lackawanna County?

A property assessment appeal is a formal challenge to the assessed value the county assigns a parcel — the figure millage rates are applied to — not a dispute of the tax bill itself. Hearings are held before the county assessment appeal board. After the hearing, the assessed value can go down, stay the same, or go up.

The 2025 cycle was tied to the countywide reassessment (values effective January 1, 2026). The 2026 list is the regular annual appeal season. Filing windows, fees, and remaining hearing dates are in the reassessment guide. The county Assessment Office says the window to file for 2027 tax-year consideration closed August 1, 2026; the next window opens April 1, 2027.

What is the difference between 2025 and 2026 appeals?

	2025	2026
What it is	Reassessment hearing cycle	Annual hearing cycle (still being posted)
How many rows	4,968 parcels on county schedules	365 rows ingested so far (as of September 2026)
What you can see	Pre-hearing vs post-hearing assessed value, dollar and percent change, outcome	Hearing date, status (scheduled / pending results / decided), and values when the county has published them
Outcomes so far	3,288 reduced · 1,567 unchanged · 28 increased · 32 pending	253 decided · 66 scheduled · 46 pending results, across 18 hearing days

Across decided 2025 appeals, post-hearing assessed values are about $713 million lower in total than the pre-hearing figures. That is a change in assessed value, not a dollar-for-dollar cut to anyone's tax bill — millage rates also changed after reassessment.

How do I look up my Lackawanna County assessment appeal?

Open 2025 appeals or 2026 appeals.
Search by owner name, street address, parcel id (UPI), municipality, or school district.
Read the pre-hearing and post-hearing assessed values, the dollar and percent change, and the outcome badge (reduced, no change, increased, or pending).
Tap the parcel id to open the same property in Parcel Explorer.
Confirm the figure with the county Tax Assessment Office before you use it for tax planning, a sale, or a legal filing.

On both year pages, results default to the largest dollar decrease first. Click $ or % in the Change column to switch the sort, or click again to reverse it.

Who is this for?

Owners who appealed checking what the board did, neighbors and journalists scanning how values moved in a municipality or school district, and realtors, appraisers, and researchers who need a parcel-linked view of public hearing results instead of paging through PDFs.

Thank you

Appeal-result lookup has been a recurring request since we published Parcel Explorer and the reassessment guide. Thank you to everyone who asked for it and who flagged missing hearing dates — keep sending them.

Data notes

Rows come from public county Tax Assessment hearing schedules and result reports, including the assessor appeal hearings archive. We OCR those PDFs and match parcels to assessor GIS. Counts and values reflect what those documents show in our index; they can lag a new county posting or contain an extraction error. Pending counts follow the published county reports, not parse gaps.

This index is informational only — not an official assessment, tax calculation, or legal determination. Always verify material facts with the county Assessment Office. Lackawanna Connect is an independent local publisher and is not affiliated with Lackawanna County government.

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