Water damage restoration companies by state

What the job covers

Water damage restoration means getting the water out of a building and drying the structure and its contents. It usually follows a burst supply line, a failed water heater or a roof leak.

ANSI/IICRC S500 (Standard for Professional Water Damage Restoration) sets out how it should be done. A consensus body at the IICRC writes it and ANSI approves it. When we checked iicrc.org in September 2026, S500 was in its fifth edition (2021) and a revision was under way.

One line in S500 is worth knowing before you call. The standard assumes that finding and fixing the cause of the water is the property owner's job, not the restorer's, although you can hire the restorer or another specialist to do it. So before the fans go in, ask who is fixing the leak.

S500 also sorts water by how contaminated it is. At the dirty end, Category 3 covers sewage and flood water from rivers or the sea. Where water is Category 2 or 3, the standard says remediation should happen before drying, with contamination controls and worker protection. Sewage jobs have their own page, and our guide to S500 and S520 goes further into the standard.

What a good water damage page tells you

We score each company on what its own website says, and a few items do most of the work for a water job:

• Whether it answers around the clock, and whether it states how fast a crew arrives.
• A drying process you can follow: inspection and moisture readings, extraction, equipment placement, repeat readings, and a stated dry goal before anything is closed up.
• Help with the insurance claim, spelled out. Photos, moisture logs and a written scope are the paper trail a claim runs on.
• S500 named on the site. We count that as the company's own claim. An IICRC Certified Firm record is a separate third-party check, and we haven't logged one for any company yet, so every profile shows it as not verified.
• A written warranty on the work.

A site that lists "water damage" in a menu and says nothing more gets credit for the service and little else.

How to read the table

Each row counts listed companies in that state whose own website documents water damage restoration. It measures documentation, not quality or crew size. The link takes you to the state list, where every company carries its Evidence Score and coverage, or to a water damage list for that state where we have enough companies to build one. A state missing from the table has no listed company documenting this work yet, which says more about our coverage than about the state.