The short answer
Restoration industry data is mostly sold rather than published. This section holds original datasets built from free federal and state sources, with the method, the retrieval date and the limits written out so anyone can reproduce or challenge them.
Search for restoration industry statistics and the top results are subscription market research reports. The figures they publish range widely, and the reason is definitional rather than arithmetic: there is no single industry classification code for restoration work.
We take the opposite approach. Every dataset here is built from sources that are free and public, and every report states its source, version, retrieval date, filters, unit of analysis and exclusions. If you pull the same source on the same basis you should get the same answer.
In this section
Restoration Demand Index
16,135 county-level restoration events from federal disaster declarations, 2015 to 2025, with state volatility scoring.
Methodology
The standing rules for every dataset we publish.
What is happening in this area
NAICS 562910, commonly quoted as the restoration industry, is environmental remediation: contaminated soil, groundwater and abatement. Fire and flood restoration of buildings sits in construction classifications and scatters across several specialty-trade codes. This is why published market size estimates differ by an order of magnitude.
We do not quote a single market size figure as fact. Where we discuss industry size we show which classification produced which number.
This section summary is maintained rather than written once. It was last reviewed on 23 September 2026. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us.