Florida Mold-License Data 2026: The July 31 Renewal Cliff

Florida is one of the few states that licenses mold work and publishes the full registry — which means the size and shape of the profession is a matter of public record, not guesswork. We pulled the state's own Board 07 licensee extract on July 20, 2026 and counted it. The picture it paints matters right now for one reason: the entire field renews on the same clock, and that clock comes due on July 31, 2026.

The headline: 3,768 licenses, one deadline

There are 8,067 current mold-related services licenses in Florida — 4,076 Mold Assessor (MRSA) licenses and 3,991 Mold Remediator (MRSR) licenses. Of those, 3,768 — about 47% — expire on July 31, 2026. The other 4,299 have already renewed through July 31, 2028. Every renewing license shares that single date; Florida runs mold licensing on a two-year cycle that ends every even-numbered year on July 31, so there are no staggered anniversaries to spread the load.

The cliff is already draining

The 3,768 figure is a moving number, and it is moving down. On the June 23 state extract, 5,112 licenses were set to expire in 2026; by July 7 it was 4,573, by July 14 it was 4,167, and by our July 20 reading it had fallen to 3,768 — meaning roughly 1,344 professionals have renewed early since late June, about 400 of them in the most recent week since our first count. That is the leading edge of the renewal wave, and it is worth watching, because the count that matters to a homeowner is not how many renewed early but how many let the date pass. A license that is not renewed by July 31 lapses and shows in the public registry as expired or delinquent rather than current and active.

Where Florida's mold pros are — and aren't

Licensing is heavily concentrated. Three Southeast Florida counties — Broward (1,206), Miami-Dade (1,161), and Palm Beach (701) — together hold about 38% of every licensed professional in the state. At the other end, six counties have zero licensed mold assessors or remediators with a local address of record: Gulf, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Taylor, and Union. Eight more counties have two or fewer.

That does not mean no one will service those counties — a licensee headquartered in Tallahassee or Gainesville can and does travel — but it does mean residents there are choosing from a very thin local bench, which makes verifying the one or two names they are offered all the more worth doing.

The full county-by-county count follows. County reflects each licensee's address of record with the state, so read it as "licensed professionals headquartered here," not "licensed professionals who will work here."

Assessors, remediators, and the out-of-state share

The field splits almost evenly between the two license types — 4,076 assessors and 3,991 remediators — which reflects Florida's independence rule: under §468.8419 the same person generally cannot both assess and remediate the same property within 12 months, so the two roles are held and licensed separately. 566 licensees (7.0%) carry an out-of-state address of record; those are professionals licensed in Florida who are headquartered elsewhere, common in a post-hurricane market that draws restoration crews from across the Southeast.

A profession that grew fast

Florida's licensed mold workforce is young and expanded quickly. New mold-related services licenses issued per year rose from 167 in 2016 to a peak of 766 in 2024:

A fast-growing, recently-licensed field is exactly the kind where a badge on a website can outrun the license behind it — which is the case for checking the record rather than the marketing.

What this means if you are hiring

The single most useful takeaway is timing. A license you confirmed earlier in 2026 can change status on July 31. With 3,768 licenses turning over on that one day, a contractor who was current in June may be expired in August, even though their truck, website, and old paperwork still say "licensed." Hiring a contractor whose license has lapsed can also complicate an insurance claim later, since a carrier may question whether the work was performed by a properly licensed operator.

You do not have to take any of this on trust. Before you sign, verify the contractor's Florida license — our free tool reads the live DBPR record and shows whether the license is current and active today, its type, and the date we checked it. If you are researching the credential itself, see how a Florida mold license is earned and how renewal works.

Methodology: Figures are tabulated from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, Division of Professions, Mold-Related Services (Board 07) public licensee extract (lic07mold.csv), retrieved July 20, 2026. We count the two consumer-facing license types — Mold Assessor (MRSA) and Mold Remediator (MRSR) — and treat a license as "current" when its DBPR primary status is Current. "Expiring July 31, 2026" means a July 31, 2026 expiration date on a current license. County reflects each licensee's address of record with DBPR, not a service area; the county table covers the 7,387 current licensees with a mapped Florida county, while statewide totals additionally include out-of-state and unmapped licensees. Figures are a point-in-time snapshot and change as licensees renew; we refresh from the state extract weekly. No estimates or projections are used.

Sources: Florida DBPR Mold-Related Services (Board 07) public licensee extract, retrieved July 20, 2026; Chapter 468, Part XVI, Florida Statutes; Rule 61-31, Florida Administrative Code.