About Restoration Index

Restoration Index lists water, mold, fire, sewage and storm restoration companies in the United States and says what we could verify about each one. It's written for the person deciding who to call after a leak, a flood or a fire, and for the owner who wants to see how their company reads to that person.

Who publishes it

Restoration Index is published by Pleiades Consultancy, a marketing firm that helps service businesses get found in Google and in AI search tools. Some of our clients are restoration companies. None of them is listed here today, and if one ever is, it will be labelled on every page it appears on. The disclosures page sets out that rule.

What changed in 2026

Earlier versions of this site ranked companies with a MetaScore. It mixed Google and Yelp star ratings and review counts, Better Business Bureau grades and a few other signals. When a company was missing most of them, it re-weighted whatever was left, so a business we knew one fact about could show a perfect score.

We removed all of that in 2026. The site no longer shows or stores star ratings, review counts or BBB grades, and no score is built from them. The Evidence Score replaced it:

• Each item carries a fixed weight, the same for every company, and a missing item scores zero.
• Coverage sits beside every score, so you can see how much of it we were able to check.
• Every item has a source link and a date, so you can check it yourself.

The change made the lists shorter. Many companies that used to rank now sit in comparison tables, because their websites alone don't give us enough to rank them. A shorter list you can check is worth more than a long one you can't.

We also retired the pages that repeated the same companies under different titles: the yearly "top 10" lists, the head-to-head comparisons and the city-by-service pages. Their addresses now forward to the state or company page that holds the same information.

If your company is listed

Every company we reviewed keeps a page, listed or not. The page shows what we found and, if the company isn't listed, what was missing. To fix something, follow the steps on the corrections page. A correction changes a record only when a source shows it, and it can move a score either way.

For how the score is built, item by item, read the methodology.