Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across Clovis
Fire and smoke damage in Clovis doesn’t wait for business hours, and neither do we. Floodline Restoration Co. of California answers the phone with a live dispatcher at 2 a.m. and can have a certified crew on site in Clovis the same visit, running extraction and smoke mitigation before soot sets into framing and drywall. The 2020 Creek Fire showed every homeowner east of Clovis Avenue how quickly Sierra wildfire smoke becomes a structural problem, not just an odor problem. Call (888) 737-2439 and we’ll be there when we say.
Why Floodline Restoration Co. of California Is Clovis’s Preferred Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company
We’ve worked enough homes in 93611, 93612, 93613, and 93619 to know what Clovis smoke damage actually looks like: ash packed into stucco weep screeds, soot inside HVAC returns near Harlan Ranch, and odor that’s already wicked into insulation along Shepherd Avenue before the fire trucks leave. Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration crews are background-checked, uniformed, and trained to IICRC, RIA, and IFA standards. Curt Bowman founded this company in 2010 and built it around a dispatch board, not a sales desk. The result is simple: a live person picks up the phone, a same-day crew handles the board-up and smoke knockdown, and the moisture log goes to you and your carrier, not into a file somewhere.
What we hear from Clovis homeowners again and again is that they don’t want to play messenger between a mitigation company, a rebuild contractor, and an insurance adjuster. We keep the job whole. Extraction, drying, board-up, contents pack-out, and structural repair are all handled by Floodline, with direct insurance billing and the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. Done right, and backed in writing.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Clovis
Every fire event in Clovis carries the same risk, whether it’s a kitchen fire in Old Town or smoke infiltration from a Sierra fire in 93619: the longer soot and acidic residue sit on surfaces, the deeper the damage goes. We handle the full cycle from first board-up to final paint.
Emergency Board-Up & Tarping
After a fire, your home is open to weather, animals, and anyone walking by. In Clovis, that means tule fog blowing through a broken window in November, pushing humidity into burned wall cavities. We board and tarp within hours, using materials that hold through valley fog and atmospheric river rain, and we document every opening so the insurance scope is clean from day one. Senior and veteran homeowners in Clovis can also take 5% off any repair over $250, always.
Smoke & Soot Removal
Soot is acidic. Left on drywall, metal, and wiring in a Clovis home, it etches surfaces and corrodes connections within days. We clean soot from every surface: walls, ceilings, trusses, duct boots, and the framing behind stucco where smoke traveled through the wall cavity. In the 93619 foothills subdivisions, we see fine Sierra ash that works into wall penetrations and sills. It doesn’t rinse off; it requires HEPA vacuuming and chemical sponge work, not a mop.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Smoke odor in a Clovis house doesn’t fade on its own, especially when tule fog keeps windows closed and relative humidity near 100% from November through February. Odor molecules embed in insulation, carpet pad, and the painted backside of drywall. We use thermal fogging and ozone treatments after the soot is removed, not before, and we set daily readings until the odor source is eliminated, not masked. The line the smoke left is where we start.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
Clovis homes hold decades of belongings: quilts, photo albums, tools, and the furniture that’s been in the family since the house was built. We pack out contents to our cleaning facility, inventory them with photo documentation for your carrier, and clean them properly: soft goods, electronics, furniture, and documents. Then we store them until the rebuild is done and bring them back. A square deal: no surprises on the bill.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Clovis Homes
- Ash-laden water at slab edges in 93619. The first atmospheric river after a Sierra fire sends water along cracked valley clay toward the slab perimeter. By the time it pools in the garage, it’s already carried ash and soot under the slab edge and into wall cavities.
- Stucco trapping moisture after smoke infiltration. Clovis’s post-1985 stucco tract homes mask what’s happening inside the wall. During tule fog season, moisture in the wall cavity stalls drying for weeks, and soot turns to mold inside the framing if mitigation is delayed.
- Legacy garage door openers failing after a smoke event. Smoke film coats circuit boards and rails. In 1980s and 1990s Clovis homes, parts for those old openers are often discontinued in the Central Valley, and the delay while you hunt for a board lets odor set deeper into the garage framing.
- HVAC systems carrying smoke through the whole house. Even if the fire was in one room, the blower spreads fine ash through every vent. If the system isn’t cleaned and the filter replaced before you run heat again in the valley’s first cold snap, the odor comes back through every register.
Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Clovis, CA
Here’s what Clovis homeowners can expect. Emergency board-up and tarping for a typical single-story home runs $450 to $900. Smoke and soot removal across a 1,800-square-foot home usually lands between $2,800 and $6,500, depending on how far the soot traveled and whether walls came open. Odor removal and deodorization adds $1,200 to $3,200 when it involves thermal fogging and duct cleaning. Contents pack-out and cleaning typically runs $1,800 to $4,500 for a full house. Structural fire repair is scoped and priced in writing like a remodel, with a line-item estimate before any work starts. We don’t hand you a number over the phone and change it later. Every estimate is free, and we handle direct insurance billing. Call (888) 737-2439 and we’ll put the scope in writing.
Trusted Brands We Service in Clovis
Our crews run Dri-Eaz and Phoenix drying equipment and Injectidry panels, and our techs are trained to IICRC, RIA, and IFA standards. For Clovis homeowners, that means we bring professional-grade air movers and dehumidifiers to every job, not rental-store fans. We keep the supplies a Clovis fire job actually needs on the truck, so the board-up and first moisture readings happen the same visit, not after a parts run across town.
We Also Serve Cities Near Clovis
Floodline Restoration Co. of California serves Clovis and the surrounding Central Valley communities. If you’re in Fresno, Old Fig Garden, Sanger, or Fowler, the same live dispatcher answers, and the same certified crews respond. The 90-Day Done Right Promise travels with us, whichever exit we take.
Serving Clovis, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Clovis area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Clovis
Because the subdivisions in 93619 were built on former agricultural land underlain by expansive valley clay. Through Clovis’s 100°F+ summers, that clay bakes dry and cracks. When the first atmospheric river arrives, the desiccated soil absorbs water slowly and channels it toward slab perimeters instead of draining away. After a Sierra fire, that water carries ash and soot with it, which is why the first-storm surge in east Clovis is a predictable restoration event, not a surprise. Call (888) 737-2439 and we’ll check your slab edges before the rain does.
Tule fog keeps ambient relative humidity near saturation for days or weeks from November through February, which dramatically slows structural drying. A wall cavity that would dry in three days during a Clovis summer can take two to three weeks in fog season, and soot residue turns to mold much faster inside that trapped moisture. We run Dri-Eaz and Phoenix dehumidifiers on every fog-season fire job and log daily moisture readings until the dry standard is met, because guessing during tule fog is how you get a mold claim inside a smoke claim.
Board them. Old Town Clovis homes along Clovis Avenue have pre-1960 wood-frame construction with original windows that don’t seal well. Fog and rain get in easily, and once moisture hits plaster-and-lath walls and aged framing, it wicks fast and dries slow. Board-up and tarping on those older homes isn’t overkill; it’s the cheapest line item on the claim and it prevents the most expensive rebuild down the line.
Yes. When wildfire smoke sits over Clovis for days, the HVAC system pulls fine ash into the return ducts, the blower, and the coils. Even after the sky clears, the odor stays in the ductwork and comes back through every register the first time you run heat. That requires duct cleaning, coil cleaning, and filter replacement, and it’s a standard part of our smoke and odor restoration work in 93611, 93612, and 93619. It’s covered under most fire-smoke policies, and we document it for your adjuster.
Smoke film is conductive and corrosive. During the 2020 Creek Fire, we saw openers in 93619 fail within days of heavy smoke exposure because soot had coated the circuit board and rail sensors. In a 1990s Clovis home, that opener is often past service life already, and parts for those models are frequently discontinued in the Central Valley. When we handle smoke restoration on a Clovis garage, we check the opener as part of the scope. If it’s shot, we retrofit it rather than chase boards for a unit that was out of production before the fire ever happened. That keeps the garage drying, the door secured, and the claim moving.
Get Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Clovis Started Today
If you’re reading this with smoke odor in the house or a boarded window facing the fog, call now. We answer live, day or night, and a certified Floodline crew can be in Clovis the same visit. You’ll get a written scope before work starts, photo documentation for your carrier, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise in your hands. We stand behind it.
Call (888) 737-2439 for a free estimate. Senior and veteran homeowners in Clovis always save 5%. $50 off any repair over $250. $89 seasonal tune-up. No pressure, no sales desk. Just a live person and a crew that shows up.
Written by Curt Bowman, Owner at Floodline Restoration Co. of California, serving Clovis and the Central Valley since 2010.