Fire damage repair cost in Riverside: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Riverside owners paid a median $17,030 for fire damage repairs, third-highest of 5 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Riverside owners paid
$17,030
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
How Riverside compares
- U.S. median, same work
- Not published
- Rank, highest first
- 3 of 5
Riverside: $17,030. The big-metro medians run from $4,457 to $300,000.
10 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 5.
- Boston$300,000
- Los Angeles$100,000
- Riverside$17,030
- Chicago$10,000
- 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 Riverside-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
Ask every contractor to price the same scope, in writing. 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.