Restoration Services Listings

The listings compiled on this directory cover fire damage restoration contractors and service providers operating across the United States, organized to help property owners, insurance adjusters, and facility managers locate qualified firms for specific restoration needs. Each entry is indexed against service type, geographic region, and documented certification status. Understanding how these listings are structured — and how they connect to the broader technical and regulatory context of fire restoration — makes the directory significantly more useful than a simple name-and-number index.

How to use listings alongside other resources

The listings on this page function most effectively when used in combination with the reference content available throughout this resource. Before contacting a provider, reviewing the fire damage restoration process overview establishes a baseline understanding of what a qualified contractor is expected to deliver across the mitigation, remediation, and reconstruction phases.

For insurance-related situations — which account for a substantial share of all residential fire restoration engagements — the fire damage insurance claims and restoration reference explains how adjuster timelines, scope-of-loss documentation, and contractor invoicing intersect. Listing entries that include insurance billing experience or direct billing capacity are tagged accordingly.

Certification matters significantly in this vertical. The fire damage restoration certifications and standards page outlines the credentialing frameworks issued by the Institute of Inspection Cleaning and Restoration Certification (IICRC), including the Fire and Smoke Restoration Technician (FSRT) designation and the Applied Structural Drying (ASD) credential. Listings are cross-referenced against these designations where the information is publicly verifiable.

Safety framing also informs how listings should be read. Contractors operating in post-fire environments encounter OSHA 29 CFR 1910 hazard categories including respiratory exposures from combustion byproducts, asbestos disturbance in pre-1980 structures, and fall hazards from structurally compromised surfaces. The asbestos and lead concerns in fire damage restoration reference addresses the regulatory scope that qualified providers must navigate.

How listings are organized

Listings are grouped along two primary axes: service scope and geographic coverage.

Service scope divides into three classification tiers:

1. Full-service restoration firms — Providers offering the complete sequence from emergency response through structural reconstruction, including board-up, water extraction, content pack-out, soot remediation, odor control, and permitted rebuilding. These firms typically maintain crews across multiple IICRC certification categories.

2. Specialty mitigation contractors — Providers focused on a defined phase or hazard type. Examples include firms specializing exclusively in smoke and soot damage restoration, thermal fogging and ozone treatment for fire odor, or document and electronics recovery after fire. These providers are often engaged as subcontractors by general restoration firms or directly by insurers.

3. Structural and reconstruction contractors — Providers whose primary license and operational focus is structural fire damage restoration and code-compliant rebuilding. These firms operate under state contractor licensing boards and must comply with local jurisdiction requirements under the International Building Code (IBC) or applicable residential codes (IRC).

The distinction between full-service and specialty firms matters when property owners face partial losses. A kitchen fire, for example, may require a specialty soot remediator and a licensed general contractor but not a full-service emergency restoration firm. The partial fire damage restoration reference elaborates on this scope boundary.

What each listing covers

Each directory entry includes the following structured data points where verified:

1. Business name and primary service address
2. Geographic service radius — stated in miles or named counties/metro areas
3. License status — contractor license number and issuing state board, where publicly available
4. IICRC certifications held — FSRT, ASD, WRT (Water Restoration Technician), or others per the IICRC standards for fire damage restoration
5. Insurance billing capability — direct billing, third-party administrator (TPA) network participation, or owner-paid only
6. Emergency response availability — 24/7 dispatch or scheduled service only
7. Specialty capabilities — flags for historic property work, commercial or multi-family scope, wildfire damage response, or contents restoration

Listings do not include customer reviews or star ratings. The directory prioritizes verifiable operational facts over aggregated opinion scores, which vary in reliability and methodology across platforms. The choosing a fire damage restoration contractor page provides a structured evaluation framework that complements the factual data in each listing.

Geographic distribution

The directory indexes providers across all 50 states, with density weighted toward the highest fire-incident metropolitan areas as reported by the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA). California, Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois account for a disproportionate share of total listings given their combined structural fire volume and population base.

Wildfire-affected regions — particularly the Western US states including California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, and Arizona — have a dedicated listing subset. Wildfire restoration presents distinct regulatory and logistical challenges compared to structure fires, including debris removal governed by state environmental agencies and EPA lead-safe work practice requirements under 40 CFR Part 745.

Rural and lower-density markets are represented but coverage is thinner. In markets where fewer than 3 verified full-service providers are indexed within a 50-mile radius, the listing page flags that gap and cross-references the fire damage restoration timeline resource, which addresses how contractor scarcity affects project scheduling and interim stabilization decisions.

Commercial and multi-family listings are grouped separately from residential entries, given the divergent licensing, permitting, and insurance frameworks governing those property types. The commercial fire damage restoration and multi-family and apartment fire damage restoration references define the operational and regulatory distinctions between those segments and residential scope.