Plumas County, CA Short-Term Rentals: Night Caps (2026)

Plumas County does not limit how many nights per year a short-term rental may operate in its unincorporated areas. Counties that adopt STR ordinances sometimes impose annual caps (for example, a maximum number of rented nights for unhosted rentals), but because Plumas County has no STR ordinance, no such cap exists. A vacation rental can be booked for as many nights as the owner chooses, subject only to general zoning, building, and septic constraints and to collecting Transient Occupancy Tax on the qualifying stays. The one numeric threshold that matters is the definition of a taxable transient stay: an occupancy of 30 days or less is taxable transient occupancy under Uniform TOT Ordinance No. 544, while stays longer than 30 days are not transient and fall outside the TOT (and outside the typical 'short-term rental' framing). That 30-day line determines whether a given booking is taxed, not how many total nights the property may be rented in a year. The County's enforcement energy has gone toward ensuring rentals are registered and the tax is paid, rather than toward limiting rental frequency. Operators planning heavy year-round use should still confirm zoning and septic capacity for their parcel, since intensity of use can raise health and land-use questions even without a formal night cap.