Is Fox 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.

• Washington

  No company pesticide license record on file.

• Oregon

  No company pesticide license record on file.

• Idaho

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

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship: Commercial applicator company license⁴⁶

  Status: Listed; expiration December 31, 2026 (current) · Number 10907-001 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship: Commercial applicator company license⁴⁶

  Status: Listed; expiration December 31, 2026 (current) · Number 11412-001 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship: Commercial applicator company license⁴⁶

  Status: Listed; expiration December 31, 2026 (current) · Number 11249-001 · Expires December 31, 2026

• Iowa

  Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship: Company license lookup⁴⁶

  Status: No company license found for the Davenport branch: no Fox/FDS record with a Davenport, Moline, Bettendorf or Rock Island address in the IDALS lookup (searched by company name “Fox”, “Fox Pest”, “FDS”, “Quad” and by city).

• Kansas

  No company pesticide license record on file.

• Louisiana

  Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry: Place of Business Permit⁴⁵

  Status: Active · Number 00203C · Expires 6/30/2026

• Louisiana

  Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry: Place of Business Permit⁴⁵

  Status: Active · Number 00203D · Expires 6/30/2026

• Louisiana

  Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry: Place of Business Permit⁴⁵

  Status: Active · Number 00203F · Expires 6/30/2026

• Nevada

  No company pesticide license record on file.

• South Dakota

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

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture: Commercial business license⁴³

  Status: Active (listed in TDA’s current-licenses report) · Number 0874467 · Expires 01/31/2027

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture: Commercial business license⁴³

  Status: Active (listed in TDA’s current-licenses report) · Number 0617449 · Expires 04/30/2027

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture: Commercial business license⁴³

  Status: Active (listed in TDA’s current-licenses report) · Number 0661650 · Expires 11/30/2026

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture: Commercial business license⁴³

  Status: Active (listed in TDA’s current-licenses report) · Number 0838205 · Expires 12/31/2026

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture: Commercial business license⁴³

  Status: Active (listed in TDA’s current-licenses report) · Number 0849132 · Expires 01/31/2027

• Texas

  Texas Department of Agriculture: Enforcement report check⁴⁴

  Status: No Fox entity or Fox license number (0874467, 0617449, 0661650, 0838205, 0849132) appears in TDA’s current Structural Pest Control Enforcement Report.

Better Business Bureau record

• Its company-wide BBB profile shows an A+ grade and 263 complaints in the last three years.

  BBB accredited since 5/26/2021.^{17, 40, 41, 42}

  Full BBB record

What customers say

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

• Google

  19,886 reviews across 20 western US listings, averaging 4.7 out of 5 (weighted by review count).^{10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 22}

• BBB

  3.69 out of 5 from 553 reviews (company-wide).^{31, 32}

  Retrieved October 27, 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 lawsuits, settlements or enforcement actions are on file.

Three other records (complaint summaries and permits) are 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

• #53 of 164 in the West

  Handshake Score 7.9 out of 10, Medium confidence.

  Strongest: licensing and compliance (10.0/10). Weakest: sales and contract fairness (4.0/10).

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