Pest Control Dallas: $100 to $600 a Visit + Rules (2026)

We found no Dallas price from a publisher we use. Every row is a national figure and is labeled that way; the company that answers quotes its own first-visit or inspection fee before anything is booked.

Do this now, before you call a Dallas exterminator

1. If someone has trouble breathing, swelling of the face or throat, or dizziness after stings or bites, call 911. Everything else below can wait a few minutes.
2. Photograph what you saw and where: the insect, the droppings, the mud tube, the bite pattern. Keep a dead sample in a sealed bag if you can. A company identifies the pest before it prices anything, and NC State's advice for bed bugs applies everywhere: ask the technician to show you a live specimen from your home before you accept a treatment.
3. Do not spray store-bought products over the area first. Repellent sprays scatter roaches into new rooms (UC IPM) and hide the evidence a company would use to find the source.
4. For rodents, note where the droppings are and whether you hear activity at night. Nearly half of Dallas homes predate 1980, and a company's first job is finding the gap they came through, so the location helps.
5. If you rent, put the problem in writing to the address where you pay rent. Texas Property Code 92.052 requires a landlord to make a diligent effort to repair a condition that materially affects the health or safety of an ordinary tenant once a current tenant gives notice, and 92.056 presumes 7 days is a reasonable time.

Is it urgent? What counts as a pest emergency in Dallas

Three situations are worth a prompt call, and none of them is a verdict on your house: a wasp or hornet nest at a door, a deck or a play area; rodents inside a home with young children, since mice and rats gnaw wiring and contaminate food; and winged termites or shed wings inside the house, which Texas A&M and NC State both describe as the usual sign of an active colony in or under the structure. In Dallas the rodent call is the common urgent one: mice and rats inside a house with kids, or gnawing you can hear in the walls, is worth a prompt visit; a company would trap, find the entry point and quote the sealing.

Everything else, a few ants at the sink, an occasional roach, a spider in the garage, can wait for a normal booking. HomeGuide's one-time visit range of $100 to $600 covers the ordinary cases; the high end belongs to bed bugs and termites, where the first visit is usually an inspection with a written quote.

Termites in Dallas: a Formosan county with a long native season

Dallas County is on Texas A&M's list of counties where Formosan subterranean termites have been found, though Texas A&M says infestations are most likely on the upper Gulf Coast and isolated elsewhere. The native subterranean termite is the usual Dallas find; Texas A&M puts the start of native swarms between January in South Texas and April in the Panhandle, which places North Texas in the spring months. Natives swarm by day; Formosan swarmers fly at night from early May through June and come to lights.

A company would check the slab edge, expansion joints, plumbing penetrations and any wood touching soil for mud tubes, and probe trim that sounds hollow. HomeGuide's national treatment range is $225 to $2,500, Formosan work $800 to $5,000 or more, and inspections $0 to $250. Texas A&M's bulletin notes that some Texas termite contracts exclude Formosan termites and that spot treatments under 10 square feet or 10 linear feet may not stop entry elsewhere, two things to read for before signing. Details on termite treatment cost.

Rodents and roaches in Dallas's older housing

The Census puts Dallas's median home at 1981, with 48.1% of homes built before 1980. At that age, weep holes in brick veneer, dryer vents and gaps under siding are the openings a company would check for mice (a dime-sized hole, per Denver's health department) and rats (a quarter). HomeGuide prices mouse work at $150 to $550 and rat work at $150 to $600 nationally, and cockroaches at $100 to $600. Rodent pricing by job is on rat exterminator cost and mouse exterminator cost.

Mosquitoes: the City of Dallas program

Dallas's Consumer Health Division traps and collects mosquitoes weekly, larvicides known breeding sites and the ones residents report, stocks Gambusia minnows in standing water that cannot be drained, treats storm drains where surveillance calls for it, and posts spray schedules. Residents report mosquito problems through 311 and can join a "Do Not Ground Spray" list that must be renewed each season through 311. The division's line is (214) 670-8083, 8 am to 4 pm. Private yard treatment is $350 to $500 nationally per This Old House (March 2026); HomeGuide lists $80 to $150 per visit.

Check a Dallas pest control license

Every pest control business and applicator in Texas holds a license from the Texas Department of Agriculture's Structural Pest Control Service, with insurance on file and continuing education each year. TDA posts current business licenses on its Structural Pest Control Business Publications page and takes complaints through the SPCS complaint process. Ask for the business license number and look it up before the visit.

Local pest rules and contacts for Dallas, from official state, city and county pages unless marked.

More Dallas repair guides

Rodents in the attic often come in through roof gaps: roof repair in Dallas. Leaks that keep wood damp: a Dallas plumber. Termite damage to the slab edge or piers: foundation repair in Dallas. Compare pest control in Austin and pest control in Houston. All pest pages: pest control. Calls go to an independent pest control company that serves your area and takes this kind of job (how calls work).