Is Corky's Pest Control legit?

Licenses

Company pesticide licenses in each state where it has a location, with the status the issuing agency showed on the date retrieved.

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs): Company Registration²⁵

  Status: Active · Number PR1382

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs): Branch Office registration²⁵

  Status: Active · Number BR5789

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs): Branch Office registration²⁵

  Status: Active · Number BR5809

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs): Branch Office registration²⁵

  Status: Active · Number BR5813

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs): Branch Office registration²⁵

  Status: Active · Number BR5814

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs): Branch Office registration²⁵

  Status: Active · Number BR5818

• California

  Structural Pest Control Board (Department of Consumer Affairs): Branch Office registration²⁵

  Status: Active · Number BR5823

• Cost it points

  Minor administrative penalty: CA San Diego County ag commissioner NOPA EA-37-2026-028 ($500; ACP, FAC 11701 + 3CCR 6738; DPR PCB: branch license recorded “Unlicensed”)^{29, 30}

  Counted in the score: −0.5

• Cost it points

  Minor administrative penalty: CA San Diego County ag commissioner NOPA EA-37-2026-029 ($250; ACP, FAC 11701; DPR PCB: branch license recorded “Unlicensed”)^{29, 30}

  Counted in the score: −0.5

Better Business Bureau record

• Its BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 29 complaints in the last three years.

  BBB accredited since 1988-10-01.

  Four complaints filed in the last 12 months.³

  Full BBB record

What customers say

Ratings and counts as each site showed them on the date retrieved.

• Google

  3,908 reviews across 7 western US listings, averaging 4.6 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16}

• Other

  4.9 out of 5 from 534 reviews (Trustindex widget on corkyspest.com).⁷

  Retrieved October 28, 2026

• BBB

  1.0 out of 5 from 15 reviews (California: San Marcos HQ file).⁸

  Retrieved October 28, 2026

Review excerpts and the themes customers raise are on the company’s review page.

Legal and regulatory record

Only resolved government actions count toward the score. Pending lawsuits, private suits and allegations are listed as such; they are allegations, not findings.

• County agricultural commissioner administrative civil penalty, San Diego County, NOPA EA-37-2026-028 (agricultural civil penalty, ACP) against “CORKY’S PEST CONTROL, INC.”; license type PCB (DPR Pest Control Business branch), license number recorded as “Unlicensed”; code sections FAC 11701 ($250) and 3CCR 6738 ($250); incident date December 8, 2025; final fines total $500. FAC 11701 makes it unlawful to operate as a pest control business without a valid DPR pest control business license. A fine under $5,000 with no settlement, consent order or judgment.^{29, 30}

  December 8, 2025 · San Diego County Agricultural Commissioner (California) · Enforcement · Not scored

• County agricultural commissioner administrative civil penalty, San Diego County, NOPA EA-37-2026-029 (ACP) against “CORKY’S PEST CONTROL, INC.”; license type PCB (DPR Pest Control Business branch), recorded as “Unlicensed”; code section FAC 11701; incident date December 8, 2025; final fine $250. A separate NOPA (case) from EA-37-2026-028.^{29, 30}

  December 8, 2025 · San Diego County Agricultural Commissioner (California) · Enforcement · Not scored

• An SPCB case document for field representative license FR 18880 (an individual) refers to Corky’s Pest Control, Inc. as a company involved in the facts. Individual license matter from 2009; the PDF is a scanned image whose text could not be read, so the outcome is unknown. Context only; not a company action and outside every scoring window.³¹

  August 3, 2009 · Structural Pest Control Board (California), via the Attorney General · Enforcement · Not scored

Two other records (complaint summaries and permits) are on its review page.

Does it sell door to door?

• N/A: the research didn’t establish door-to-door selling. It isn’t proof that the company never knocks.

  Sales evidence

How it ranks

• #152 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 6.5 out of 10, High confidence.

  Strongest: legal and regulatory record (10.0/10). Weakest: complaint record (5.0/10).

  How we scored itFull rankings

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