Restoration Index: water, mold and fire restoration companies checked on evidence

We read each company's own website and the public records we can reach, then show what checks out, with a source and a date on every line. Read our methodology.

50 states covered 6,930 companies reviewed 1,368 listed 136,188 evidence records
Alabama: 14 listed Alaska: 4 listed Arizona: 26 listed Arkansas: 11 listed California: 171 listed Colorado: 58 listed Connecticut: 18 listed Delaware: 6 listed Florida: 164 listed Georgia: 39 listed Hawaii: 7 listed Idaho: 27 listed Illinois: 43 listed Indiana: 22 listed Iowa: 17 listed Kansas: 8 listed Kentucky: 18 listed Louisiana: 15 listed Maine: 2 listed Maryland: 23 listed Massachusetts: 26 listed Michigan: 44 listed Minnesota: 18 listed Mississippi: 11 listed Missouri: 12 listed Montana: 10 listed Nebraska: 6 listed Nevada: 15 listed New Jersey: 20 listed New Mexico: 4 listed New York: 75 listed North Carolina: 29 listed North Dakota: 1 listed Ohio: 25 listed Oklahoma: 11 listed Oregon: 27 listed Pennsylvania: 47 listed Rhode Island: 6 listed South Carolina: 18 listed South Dakota: 2 listed Tennessee: 23 listed Texas: 95 listed Utah: 11 listed Vermont: 3 listed Virginia: 38 listed Washington: 70 listed West Virginia: 1 listed Wisconsin: 18 listed Wyoming: 6 listed District of Columbia: 3 listed

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States

Alabama14 listed, 114 reviewed Alaska4 listed, 40 reviewed Arizona26 listed, 163 reviewed Arkansas11 listed, 78 reviewed California171 listed, 708 reviewed Colorado58 listed, 241 reviewed Connecticut18 listed, 89 reviewed Delaware6 listed, 47 reviewed District of Columbia3 listed, 33 reviewed Florida164 listed, 608 reviewed Georgia39 listed, 213 reviewed Hawaii7 listed, 54 reviewed Idaho27 listed, 108 reviewed Illinois43 listed, 199 reviewed Indiana22 listed, 148 reviewed Iowa17 listed, 81 reviewed Kansas8 listed, 91 reviewed Kentucky18 listed, 88 reviewed Louisiana15 listed, 92 reviewed Maine2 listed, 49 reviewed Maryland23 listed, 137 reviewed Massachusetts26 listed, 144 reviewed Michigan44 listed, 234 reviewed Minnesota18 listed, 102 reviewed Mississippi11 listed, 51 reviewed Missouri12 listed, 106 reviewed Montana10 listed, 48 reviewed Nebraska6 listed, 48 reviewed Nevada15 listed, 70 reviewed New Hampshire0 listed, 40 reviewed New Jersey20 listed, 171 reviewed New Mexico4 listed, 45 reviewed New York75 listed, 269 reviewed North Carolina29 listed, 156 reviewed North Dakota1 listed, 35 reviewed Ohio25 listed, 184 reviewed Oklahoma11 listed, 96 reviewed Oregon27 listed, 87 reviewed Pennsylvania47 listed, 178 reviewed Rhode Island6 listed, 41 reviewed South Carolina18 listed, 120 reviewed South Dakota2 listed, 27 reviewed Tennessee23 listed, 118 reviewed Texas95 listed, 487 reviewed Utah11 listed, 125 reviewed Vermont3 listed, 30 reviewed Virginia38 listed, 138 reviewed Washington70 listed, 229 reviewed West Virginia1 listed, 27 reviewed Wisconsin18 listed, 110 reviewed Wyoming6 listed, 33 reviewed

How the index works

You usually pick a restoration company in a hurry, with water on the floor or smoke in the walls. Restoration Index is for the ten minutes you have before you call.

For every company we read its own website and note what it says it does: water, mold, fire and smoke, sewage and storm work, whether it answers around the clock, whether it works with insurance claims, how it prices and what happens during a job. Then we check what a website can't prove on its own, such as whether the business is registered with the state, against public records. Every line on a company's page links to where it came from and carries the date we read it.

The Evidence Score

Each company gets an Evidence Score out of 100, built from fixed weights that are the same for every company. Anything we couldn't find scores zero. We don't spread its points over the items we did find, so one known fact can't produce a high score.

Beside every score sits its coverage: the share of the 100 points we were able to check at all. A company is ranked only when coverage reaches 70%. Below that it still appears in the comparison tables with what we found, and it moves into the ranking once the missing checks are done.

Why there are no star ratings

We don't publish star ratings, review counts or grades from review sites. They mostly show how often a company asks for reviews, and nobody can check them line by line. Where we know a company's Google profile, we link to it so you can read the reviews there.

What the numbers above mean

"Reviewed" counts every company whose website we read. "Listed" is the smaller group that met the listing bar: a stated restoration service, a real US business you can reach, a town we could read and evidence from two independent kinds of source. The others keep a page that explains what was missing, so the company can send us the evidence.

Start with your state on the map or in the list below.

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