Is Fenix 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.

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Pesticide Bureau: Commercial applicator company license²⁷

  Status: Current (expiration date in the future; IDALS shows no status word) · Number 09259-000 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Pesticide Bureau: Commercial applicator company license²⁷

  Status: Current (expiration date in the future) · Number 10767-001 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Pesticide Bureau: Commercial applicator company license²⁷

  Status: Current (expiration date in the future) · Number 10768-001 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Pesticide Bureau: Commercial applicator company license²⁷

  Status: Expired (expiration date December 31, 2025 is in the past) · Number 11297-001 · Expires December 31, 2025

• Nebraska

  Nebraska licenses individual pesticide applicators, not companies, so there is no company license to look up.

• South Dakota

  South Dakota licenses individual pesticide applicators, not companies, so there is no company license to look up.

Better Business Bureau record

• Its company-wide BBB profile shows an A grade and 52 complaints in the last three years.

  BBB accredited since 3/3/2025.

  17 complaints filed in the last 12 months.^{3, 5, 7, 26}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

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

• Google

  5,955 reviews across 9 western US listings, averaging 4.8 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19}

• BBB

  3.86 out of 5 from 111 reviews (Fenix headquarters + corporate-owned locations).¹⁰

  Retrieved October 28, 2026

• Thumbtack

  4.8 out of 5 from 89 reviews (Iowa City, Iowa).⁶

  Retrieved October 28, 2026

• Angi

  4.3 out of 5 from 6 reviews (Des Moines, Iowa).²⁴

  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.

• No state pesticide-regulator enforcement, attorney general action, FTC action, settlement or consent order against Fenix was found. IDALS, NDA and SD DANR publish no enforcement lists; Iowa/Nebraska/South Dakota AG pages publish no per-company complaint data. This is an absence of public findings, not proof of none (see gaps).³⁰

  October 28, 2026 · Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota · Enforcement · Not scored

One other record (complaint summaries and permits) is on its review page.

Does it sell door to door?

• Yes: the research record documents the company selling door to door.

  Sales evidence

How it ranks

• #67 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 7.8 out of 10, Medium confidence.

  Strongest: licensing and compliance (10.0/10). Weakest: complaint record (7.0/10).

  How we scored itFull rankings

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