How much does mold remediation cost in Florida?

Most Florida mold remediation jobs run about $1,100 to $4,200, with a typical job near $2,300. The range is wide because “remediation” covers everything from a small drywall patch to a whole-house, HVAC-spread cleanup. Location matters too: South Florida metros such as Miami and Fort Lauderdale run roughly 10–12% above the state baseline, while Tallahassee and Pensacola run about 10% below.

How much does a mold inspection cost in Florida?

A mold inspection in Florida typically costs about $230 to $785, often around $450, depending on home size and whether lab testing is included. Under Chapter 468, Part XVI of the Florida Statutes, the company that assesses your home cannot also remediate the same property within 12 months — apart from a Division I general, building, or residential contractor certified under §489.105(3) — so an independent assessor has no incentive to inflate the problem. Inspection pricing moves by market the same way remediation does, so check what a mold inspection costs metro by metro before you judge a quote.

Why do two Florida mold quotes vary so much?

Two quotes for the “same” job often differ because they cover different work. A low number usually skips negative-pressure containment, HEPA scrubbing, or independent post-job clearance testing, and rarely includes fixing the moisture source. Compare quotes on scope — square footage affected, whether the HVAC is involved, and how the leak gets fixed — not just the total.

What does mold remediation cost per square foot in Florida?

Per-square-foot pricing typically runs about $11 to $26, with a mid-point near $17, but it is only a rough guide. Small jobs cost more per square foot because setup, containment, and clearance testing are largely fixed costs spread over a smaller area. Always confirm what the price includes before comparing it to another quote.

What does mold removal cost in a Florida town that isn’t listed here?

Use the statewide range as your yardstick: about $1,100 to $4,200, with a typical job near $2,300. Across the twelve Florida metros we price, local rates land between roughly 10% below and 12% above that baseline, so a smaller town almost always falls inside the same band. For a closer read, find your county in the regional table above and use the nearest market we price — Alachua and Newberry track Jacksonville, Lake Wales and Haines City track Orlando, the Keys track Miami. Scope decides your bill far more than geography does — contaminated square footage, whether the HVAC is involved, and what it takes to fix the moisture source.

What mold remediation costs in Florida

By the MoldVerified Research Desk · Cost ranges refreshed June 2026

Most homeowners get blindsided by mold pricing because the same two words — “mold remediation” — cover a six-square-foot drywall patch and a whole-house, HVAC-spread contamination job. Those are different jobs with wildly different bills, so a single national average tells you almost nothing about what your Florida quote should look like.

These pages fix that. Each one shows a real price range for a specific city — a typical (median) figure plus the low and high ends — and breaks down the scope details that actually move the number: contaminated square footage, whether your HVAC is involved, containment difficulty, and fixing the moisture source so it doesn’t come back. A cheap quote usually means the corners that matter were cut: no negative-pressure containment, no HEPA scrubbing, no independent post-job clearance test. You find out when the mold returns.

Read the range for your city, then compare quotes on scope, not just the total. If a number is already in front of you, you can place that quote against these published ranges and work through the scope items — containment, clearance testing, the moisture source — that a cheap bid tends to leave out. When you’re ready to talk to someone, you pick exactly which verified, licensed company calls you — we never sell or blast your number.

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Cost by city

Mold Remediation Cost in Florida (2026)

Actual Florida mold remediation prices: $1,100–$4,200 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Actual Fort Lauderdale mold remediation prices: $1,200–$4,625 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in Jacksonville, FL

Actual Jacksonville mold remediation prices: $1,000–$3,875 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in Miami, FL

Actual Miami mold remediation prices: $1,225–$4,700 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in Orlando, FL

Actual Orlando mold remediation prices: $1,050–$4,000 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in Pensacola, FL

Actual Pensacola mold remediation prices: $1,000–$3,775 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in Sarasota, FL

Actual Sarasota mold remediation prices: $1,100–$4,200 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in Tallahassee, FL

Actual Tallahassee mold remediation prices: $1,000–$3,775 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in Tampa, FL

Actual Tampa mold remediation prices: $1,075–$4,075 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

Mold Remediation Cost in West Palm Beach, FL

Actual West Palm Beach mold remediation prices: $1,200–$4,525 typical, with per-room and per-scenario breakdowns from 2026 data. No quote forms, no spam — just the numbers.

If your town isn’t listed

Which Florida benchmark applies to your area

We publish a figure for the twelve metros where we have an evidenced local multiplier, so we won’t put a price on a town we have no data for. Instead, find your county below and use the nearest market we do price — that metro’s typical job is the closest honest yardstick for a quote in your area.

Your area	Towns it covers	Nearest market we price	Typical	Range (25th–75th)
Alachua County	Gainesville, Alachua, Newberry, High Springs	Jacksonville	$2,125	$1,000–$3,875
Nassau County	Amelia Island, Fernandina Beach, Yulee	Jacksonville	$2,125	$1,000–$3,875
Polk County	Lakeland, Winter Haven, Lake Wales, Haines City, Davenport	Orlando	$2,175	$1,050–$4,000
Marion County	Ocala, Belleview, Dunnellon	Orlando	$2,175	$1,050–$4,000
Nature Coast	Spring Hill, Brooksville, New Port Richey, Crystal River, Inverness	Tampa	$2,225	$1,075–$4,075
Space Coast	Melbourne, Palm Bay, Titusville, Cocoa	Orlando	$2,175	$1,050–$4,000
Manatee County	Bradenton, Palmetto, Anna Maria Island	Sarasota	$2,300	$1,100–$4,200
Treasure Coast	Vero Beach, Stuart, Jensen Beach	Port St Lucie	$2,350	$1,125–$4,275
Charlotte County	Punta Gorda, Port Charlotte, Rotonda West	Cape Coral	$2,275	$1,100–$4,150
Collier County	Naples, Marco Island, Immokalee	Fort Myers	$2,250	$1,075–$4,125
Palm Beach County	Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, Jupiter, Boca Raton	West Palm Beach	$2,475	$1,200–$4,525
The Florida Keys	Key West, Islamorada, Key Largo	Miami	$2,575	$1,225–$4,700
Big Bend	Quincy, Crawfordville, Monticello, Perry, Apalachicola	Tallahassee	$2,075	$1,000–$3,775
Northwest Panhandle	Panama City, Destin, Fort Walton Beach	Pensacola	$2,075	$1,000–$3,775

Market estimates, not quotes — scope moves your bill far more than geography does. Every multiplier on record sits between 0.90 and 1.12 of the statewide baseline, so a smaller town almost always lands inside the same band as its nearest metro. Cost ranges refreshed 2026-06-03.

Those rows say what the work should cost, not who may legally do it. Alachua and Nassau County jobs both price off Jacksonville, which makes it the market you hire in as well as the one you benchmark against — so before you weigh two quotes against each other, see which mold remediation companies in Jacksonville we check against the state registry.

Central Florida is the widest case in the table: Polk County, Marion County and the Space Coast all price off Orlando, so a quote in Lakeland, Ocala or Melbourne is read against the same market. The license behind that quote is a state credential, not a county one — DBPR issues the MRSR and MRSA statewide, so a remediator licensed in the Orlando metro is as legally able to work an Ocala or Brevard job as an Orange County one. Price off the Orlando row, then check the company: the Orlando-area mold remediation companies we list each show the credential we verified and the month we checked it, plus a DBPR license number where the firm holds one. Polk County is the one of those three that carries a cost page of its own: what mold remediation costs across Lakeland and Polk County runs the same job-scope table against a smaller, lower-overhead contractor market than Orlando’s, and against an inland job mix driven by humidity and AC condensation rather than storm-surge flooding.

Southwest Florida is the one case where the benchmark itself needs a caveat. Charlotte County prices off Cape Coral and Collier County off Fort Myers — both of them Lee County markets, and Lee is where lingering post-Ian moisture still turns what looks like a contained job into a large one. A Punta Gorda or Naples total read against those rows is therefore being measured against a market that may be carrying scope the job in front of you does not. Read the number that way, then read the company: the firms on our Fort Myers list based out in Collier and Charlotte County towns are each shown with the credential we checked and the month we checked it.

Palm Beach County is the one row that never crosses a county line. Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, Jupiter and Boca Raton all price off West Palm Beach and hire from that same county bench, so the benchmark carries no cross-market caveat — what it carries is the reason a local total runs long. Much of the county's older condo stock shares one air handler per building, and a job seeded that way is priced on how far the moisture travelled rather than on the size of the visible patch. Read a Boca Raton or Jupiter quote on that basis, then read who sent it: which Palm Beach County companies our West Palm Beach list has checked is shown alongside the credential we verified and the month we looked.

The Nature Coast row spans three counties and prices off a fourth. Spring Hill and Brooksville are Hernando, Crystal River and Inverness are Citrus, and New Port Richey is Pasco; all of them read against Tampa, which sits in Hillsborough. The benchmark holds, because those towns hire into the same Tampa Bay contractor market. The list you call from is closer to home: Florida keeps the assessment and the remediation with separate firms on the same property for 12 months (§468.8419), so a Pasco job is usually two companies rather than one, and the county's own bench is where both of them are easiest to check. Which New Port Richey, Holiday and Land O' Lakes firms hold a current DBPR licence is shown on each card with the class that licence carries and the month we last confirmed it against the state registry.

The Northwest Panhandle row reaches furthest from the market it prices off. Destin and Fort Walton Beach are in Okaloosa County and Panama City is in Bay County, while Pensacola sits in Escambia, with Santa Rosa, Okaloosa and Walton between it and Panama City along the coast. The benchmark carries across that distance, because scope moves the bill more than geography does. The hiring bench does not: our Pensacola list is drawn from Escambia and Santa Rosa. For a Panama City job, check the county you are actually in — the Bay County mold companies on our list each show their DBPR licence class and status, and the month we last confirmed it against the state registry.

Cost guides

Attic Mold Removal Cost in Florida

Attic mold removal in Florida runs roughly $1,100 to $6,700, typically $2,800 — driven by size, sheathing and insulation removal, and the roof leak.

Bathroom Mold Removal Cost in Florida

Bathroom mold removal in Florida runs about $450 to $2,500, typically near $1,100. Small patches are often DIY — when to clean it yourself vs. hire a pro.

Black Mold Removal Cost in Florida

Black mold removal in Florida costs roughly $1,380 to $6,500, typically $3,000 — priced by area and materials, not by the word 'toxic.'

Crawlspace and Basement Mold Removal Cost in Florida

Crawlspace and basement mold removal in Florida runs roughly $830 to $5,000, typically $2,100 — driven by size, moisture, and structural wood.

HVAC and Duct Mold Removal Cost in Florida

HVAC and duct mold removal in Florida runs roughly $1,840 to $10,600, typically $4,000. Cleaning vs. replacing contaminated ductwork swings the price.

Mold Inspection and Testing Cost in Florida

A mold inspection in Florida costs roughly $230 to $785, typically $450 — and Florida law keeps your assessor independent of the remediator.

Mold Inspection vs. Remediation in Florida: What Each Costs

Mold inspection (about $230–$785) and remediation ($1,010–$4,700) are separate jobs in Florida — the law generally requires different companies for each.

Mold Remediation Cost Per Square Foot in Florida

Florida mold remediation runs about $11 to $26 per square foot (typically ~$17). Small jobs cost more per foot, large jobs less — how to read the figure.

Mold Removal Cost After a Flood in Florida

Mold removal after a flood in Florida runs about $2,500 to $12,000, typically $5,500 — roughly 2.4x an ordinary mold job. Metro-by-metro ranges and what drives them.

Water Damage Restoration Cost

Water damage restoration runs about $1,300 to $5,700, median $3,400. The IICRC water category sets the rate: $3–$4.25/sq ft clean, $7–$15 Category 3.

Whole-House Mold Remediation Cost in Florida

Whole-house mold remediation in Florida runs about $9,000 to $32,000, typically near $17,500 — often well above a policy's ~$10,000 mold sublimit.

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Common questions about Florida mold costs

How much does mold remediation cost in Florida?: Most Florida mold remediation jobs run about $1,100 to $4,200, with a typical job near $2,300. The range is wide because “remediation” covers everything from a small drywall patch to a whole-house, HVAC-spread cleanup. Location matters too: South Florida metros such as Miami and Fort Lauderdale run roughly 10–12% above the state baseline, while Tallahassee and Pensacola run about 10% below.
How much does a mold inspection cost in Florida?: A mold inspection in Florida typically costs about $230 to $785, often around $450, depending on home size and whether lab testing is included. Under Chapter 468, Part XVI of the Florida Statutes, the company that assesses your home cannot also remediate the same property within 12 months — apart from a Division I general, building, or residential contractor certified under §489.105(3) — so an independent assessor has no incentive to inflate the problem. Inspection pricing moves by market the same way remediation does, so check what a mold inspection costs metro by metro before you judge a quote.
Why do two Florida mold quotes vary so much?: Two quotes for the “same” job often differ because they cover different work. A low number usually skips negative-pressure containment, HEPA scrubbing, or independent post-job clearance testing, and rarely includes fixing the moisture source. Compare quotes on scope — square footage affected, whether the HVAC is involved, and how the leak gets fixed — not just the total.
What does mold remediation cost per square foot in Florida?: Per-square-foot pricing typically runs about $11 to $26, with a mid-point near $17, but it is only a rough guide. Small jobs cost more per square foot because setup, containment, and clearance testing are largely fixed costs spread over a smaller area. Always confirm what the price includes before comparing it to another quote.
What does mold removal cost in a Florida town that isn’t listed here?: Use the statewide range as your yardstick: about $1,100 to $4,200, with a typical job near $2,300. Across the twelve Florida metros we price, local rates land between roughly 10% below and 12% above that baseline, so a smaller town almost always falls inside the same band. For a closer read, find your county in the regional table above and use the nearest market we price — Alachua and Newberry track Jacksonville, Lake Wales and Haines City track Orlando, the Keys track Miami. Scope decides your bill far more than geography does — contaminated square footage, whether the HVAC is involved, and what it takes to fix the moisture source.