Fire damage repair cost in Chicago: 2023 spending
Chicago owners paid a median $10,000 for fire work, fourth-highest of 5 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Chicago owners paid
$10,000
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
How Chicago compares
- U.S. median, same work
- Not published
- Rank, highest first
- 4 of 5
Chicago: $10,000. Between the lowest and highest big-metro medians.
10 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 5.
No published figure: Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC.
What it covers
Repairs after a fire, from smoke cleanup to rebuilding, in homes of every size.
The Census category is “Fire” within “Disaster Repairs”: what Chicago-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
If your quote is well above $10,000, ask what is in it that the typical job is not. Does the scope separate damage removal, cleaning and rebuilding?
Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.