Fire damage repair cost in Phoenix: what owners paid (2023 survey)

Phoenix owners paid a median $4,457 for fire damage repairs, the lowest of 5 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).

What Phoenix owners paid

$4,457

This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.

How Phoenix compares

U.S. median, same work
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Phoenix: $4,457. The lowest of the big metros.

10 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 5.

Fire damage repair cost: median paid by metro (2023 Census survey)
  1. Boston$300,000
  2. Los Angeles$100,000
  3. Riverside$17,030
  4. Chicago$10,000
  5. Phoenix$4,457

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 Phoenix-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.

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