Termite Treatment Cost 2026: $500–$2,000 Typical US

Treating one single-family house for termites with a whole-house chemical soil barrier — the labor and the chemical in one price, trenched or drilled at a foundation the crew can reach — often clusters around $500–$2,000. That is the typical termite treatment cost. How much does termite treatment cost in that scope? It is that barrier, not a spot spray and not a tent. Termite exterminator cost, when the labor is in the price, is the same band. Termite fumigation cost, for gas tenting of an average-sized home, is $2,000–$8,000, and that row replaces the barrier. A termite inspection the bid leaves out is $75–$325. The wider national spread, about $200–$8,000, covers a spot treatment at the low end and gas fumigation of an average-sized home at the high end. A damp crawl that keeps feeding a colony is the crawl space encapsulation guide. A wall the damage has moved is the foundation repair guide. Mold in that damp wood is the mold remediation guide. These are typical planning ranges, not a survey and not a quote.

This page is a termite treatment on a single-family house. A bid may call it a termite treatment, the cost of termite treatment, or a termite exterminator. The chemical, or the stations, or the tent, goes on the house. The labor is in the price. It is not a liner and sealed vents, which is the crawl space encapsulation guide. It is not a pier or a brace, which is the foundation repair guide. It is not contained mold removal, which is the mold remediation guide. A bottle from a shelf is a smaller product. This page does not price it as the typical band.

The price of the job is the method and the labor that applies it. The method is the first cut. Whether the foundation is reachable is the second. A per-foot rate is a way to read one treatment. It is not a second bill. Price the method the report names. A chemical barrier, a bait system, and a tent are ways to buy one treatment. The bait system replaces the barrier. The tent replaces it. It is not a second treatment under a barrier price.

The rows below are ways to read one job. They are not added together. The method table is one treatment at a foundation the crew can reach. The typical band is a whole-house chemical soil barrier: that row in full. A spot treatment replaces that rate from $200 to $1,000, and only the top half of that row sits inside the typical band. A bait system replaces it. A heat tent replaces it. Gas fumigation replaces it. Use an add-on row only for a line the method row does not include. An inspection the proposal already makes is not a second inspection.

Method	Typical cost
Spot or localized treatment	$200–$1,000
Chemical soil barrier, whole house	$500–$2,000
Bait stations, whole house	$1,000–$2,500
Heat tent, average 2,000 sq ft home	$2,000–$6,000
Gas fumigation, average-sized home	$2,000–$8,000

Add-on	Typical planning range
Inspection, when the bid leaves it out	$75–$325

The method rows replace one another. Do not add a bait system on top of a chemical barrier for the same foundation. The add-on row is a line the method row left out. An inspection the treatment price already includes is not the inspection row on top.

A spot or localized treatment — one area, not a trench around the whole foundation — is typically $200–$1,000. Two hundred dollars is the floor of the row and the floor of the wider spread. One thousand dollars is the top of the row and $1,000 under the typical top of $2,000. From $200–$500 the job sits under the typical band. Five hundred is the typical floor and inside this row. From $500–$1,000 the job is inside the typical band and inside this row. The whole row does not clear the typical top. From $200–$1,000 the job is this spot. It is not the typical barrier with a discount. Five hundred can be a spot inside this row or a chemical barrier at its floor. Ask which method the bid is. Do not add the chemical row on top of a spot that left the rest of the foundation alone.

A whole-house chemical soil barrier — liquid termiticide in a trench or in holes at a reachable foundation, labor in — is typically $500–$2,000. The floor of the row is the typical floor. The top of the row is the typical top. The whole row is the typical band. The per-foot rate for that chemical is $3–$20. That rate is a way to read this row. It is not a second bill on a price that was already the whole-house total. A severe infestation can leave $2,000 while the method is still a barrier. That higher number is not a bait system added under a barrier price. Ask what the extra dollars are. Two thousand can also be a bait system inside its row, or a tent at its floor. Those can be the same dollars and not the same job.

A whole-house bait-station system is typically $1,000–$2,500. Stations go in the soil around the foundation. The overlap with the typical band is $1,000–$2,000. One thousand is $500 above the typical floor and the floor of this row. Two thousand is the typical top and inside this row. From $1,000–$2,000 the job is inside the typical band and inside this row. From $2,000–$2,500 the job has left the typical band and stays inside the wider spread. Twenty-five hundred is $500 past the typical top and $5,500 under the wider top of $8,000. The per-foot rate for bait is $7–$12. That rate is a way to read this row. It is not a second set of stations under a price that already installed them. One thousand can be a chemical barrier inside the typical band, or a bait system at its floor. Ask which method the bid priced. Do not add the chemical row under a bait price for the same foundation.

A heat tent on an average 2,000 square foot home is typically $2,000–$6,000. The home is sealed and heated. The overlap with the typical band is the shared dollar at $2,000. Two thousand is the typical top and the floor of this row. From $2,000–$6,000 the job has left the typical band and stays inside the wider spread. Six thousand is $4,000 past the typical top and $2,000 under the wider top. The per-square-foot rate is $1–$3. Two thousand square feet at $1 is $2,000, the floor of this row. Two thousand square feet at $3 is $6,000, the top of this row. That rate is a way to check the row. It is not a second tent. Two thousand can be a chemical barrier at its top, a bait system inside its row, or this heat tent at its floor. Ask which one the bid is.

Gas fumigation of an average-sized home is typically $2,000–$8,000. The house is tented and gassed. The overlap with the typical band is the same shared $2,000. From $2,000–$6,000 the job is inside this row and inside the heat row. From $6,000–$8,000 the job has left the heat row and stays on this row. Eight thousand is the top of the row and the top of the wider spread. The per-square-foot rate is $1–$4. Two thousand square feet at $1 is $2,000. Two thousand square feet at $4 is $8,000. That check is the average-home row, not a second bill. This row replaces the chemical rate. It is not a barrier plus a tent. Two thousand can be a chemical barrier at its top or this tent at its floor. Ask which one the bid is.

Termite treatment cost

Termite treatment cost is this page when the method is on the house and the labor is in the price. How much does termite treatment cost, for that method, is the same price. A bid that says termite treatment cost and a bid that says the cost of termite treatment are the same dollars when the method, the foundation, and the labor match. The typical band, $500–$2,000, is one whole-house chemical soil barrier. It is not a second product stacked on a method row you already have.

Subterranean termites, the common species, are typically $250–$2,000 when the method is a liquid soil treatment. The overlap with the typical band is $500–$2,000. Two hundred fifty is $50 above the wider floor and $250 under the typical floor. From $250–$500 the job sits under the typical band and inside the spot row. From $500–$2,000 the job is the typical band. Two hundred fifty can be a small subterranean treatment. Five hundred can be that species at the typical floor or a spot inside $200–$1,000. Ask which one the bid is.

Drywood termite treatment is typically $225–$2,500 and can leave that top when the colony is large enough to tent. Two hundred twenty-five is $25 above the wider floor. The overlap with the typical band is $500–$2,000. From $2,000–$2,500 the job has left the typical band and stays inside the bait row, at that row’s top. A drywood colony that has to be tented is the heat row or the gas row, and those replace this span. Do not add a tent under a $2,500 drywood price that already left the chemical band.

Formosan termite treatment is typically $800–$5,000 and can leave that top when the colony needs more than one method. The overlap with the typical band is $800–$2,000. Eight hundred is $300 above the typical floor. From $2,000–$5,000 the job has left the typical band. Five thousand is inside the heat row, $1,000 under that row’s $6,000 top, and inside the gas row, $3,000 under $8,000. A Formosan job that combines a barrier and a tent is one scope the bid has to name. It is not the chemical row plus the gas row unless the bid left one of them out.

How much does termite treatment cost

How much termite treatment costs is the method price, not the price of a bottle on a shelf. For one whole-house chemical barrier at a reachable foundation, that cost is $500–$2,000. A bid that prices the chemical and a bid that prices the crew are not the same number. Keep the labor in the number when an exterminator is who treats the house.

An inspection the bid leaves out is typically $75–$325. Five hundred plus $75 is $575, inside the typical band. Five hundred plus $325 is $825, inside the typical band. Two thousand plus $75 is $2,075, which is $75 past the typical top and inside the bait row, $425 under $2,500. Two thousand plus $325 is $2,325, which is $325 past the typical top and inside the bait row, $175 under $2,500. A house whose treatment price already includes the inspection does not get this row. An inspection the proposal already makes is not a second inspection.

Termite exterminator cost

Termite exterminator cost is the installed treatment, not a spray with the labor left out. When the method is a whole-house chemical barrier, that cost is $500–$2,000. A price near $200 should say a spot treatment, not a trench around the foundation with the labor in. A price near $500 should say whether the labor and the chemical are both in. Five hundred can be this barrier at its floor. It can also be read beside a spot at $1,000, which is $500 above it and still inside the spot row. Those are not the same job.

A bait system the bid prices instead of a barrier is $1,000–$2,500, and that replaces the exterminator’s chemical row. Monitoring the stations after the install, when the bid leaves that year out, is typically $200–$400 a year. One thousand plus $200 is $1,200, inside the typical band and inside the bait row. Twenty-five hundred plus $400 is $2,900, which is $400 past the bait top, $900 past the typical top, inside the heat row, and inside the gas row, $5,100 under $8,000. That year is not inside the install. A contract that already includes the first year of monitoring is not this line on top.

Termite fumigation cost

Termite fumigation cost is the tent, not a barrier someone renamed. Gas fumigation of an average-sized home is $2,000–$8,000. Heat on an average 2,000 square foot home is $2,000–$6,000. The gas top is the wider top. The heat top is $2,000 under it. A bid that says fumigation and a bid that says tenting are the same dollars when the gas or the heat, the square feet, and the labor match. A price near $2,000 should say whether the house is being tented or only trenched.

A smaller house can sit under the average-home gas floor. One thousand square feet at $1–$4 is $1,000–$4,000. One thousand is $500 above the typical floor and $1,000 under the average-home gas floor. Four thousand is $2,000 past the typical top, $1,500 past the bait top, inside the heat row, and inside the gas row. Those can be the same dollars as a chemical barrier and not the same job. One is a small tent. One is a trench. Do not add the average-home gas row under a price that was already a smaller tent.

Termite inspection cost

Termite inspection cost is the visit that names the species and the method, not the treatment itself. When the bid leaves that visit out, the cost is $75–$325. The sums with a chemical barrier are in the section above. A company that waives the fee because the treatment is booked is not this row. A real-estate report and a treatment inspection can share those dollars. Ask which visit the bid is. Do not add the inspection under a treatment price that already includes it.

A termite bond, a contract for later inspections and a retreatment if a colony returns, is typically $500–$2,000. That whole span is the typical treatment band. Five hundred can be a bond at its floor or a chemical barrier at its floor. Two thousand can be a bond at its top or a barrier at its top. Those are the same dollars and not the same job. One is a contract for later visits. One is the treatment this year. Do not add the bond under a treatment price. Do not read a bond as the trench.

What the range includes

The typical band assumes one whole-house chemical soil barrier at a single-family house. The labor is in. The chemical is in. The foundation is reachable. The chemical row, $500–$2,000, is the band. A spot treatment is in the band only from $500 to $1,000. A bait system is in the band only from $1,000 to $2,000. A heat tent and a gas tent are in the band only at the shared $2,000. An inspection is not in the band. A later year of bait monitoring is not in the band. A bond is not in the band. Repair of eaten wood, a new crawl liner, a pier, and mold removal are not in the band.

How long the work takes depends on the method and the foundation, and the bid’s schedule is the one that counts. A spot is a short visit. A barrier is longer. A tent keeps the house empty while the gas or the heat is in and while the house airs out. These are not a day count on this page. The next year’s monitoring is not in the treatment price.

The floor of the wider spread, $200, is a spot treatment. It is not a whole-house barrier someone discounted. The top, $8,000, is gas fumigation of an average-sized home. It is not the chemical row plus every add-on. Two thousand plus an inspection at $325 is $2,325, inside the bait row and $5,675 under the wider top. Stacking the inspection on the barrier does not build the $8,000 job. The $8,000 job is the gas row at its top, with no extra inspection named. Treat a number above $8,000 as a tent on a larger house, a wood repair, a crawl liner, a pier, or a mold job, and ask which one.

None of the bands include an inspection, when the bid leaves it out, typically $75–$325. Five hundred plus $75 is $575, inside the typical band. Two thousand plus $325 is $2,325, $325 past the typical top and inside the bait row. A treatment that already includes the inspection does not get this row.

None of the bands include the next year of bait monitoring, typically $200–$400. One thousand plus $200 is $1,200, inside the typical band. Twenty-five hundred plus $400 is $2,900, $900 past the typical top and inside the heat row. A chemical barrier that has no stations does not get this row. A first year the proposal already includes is not a second year.

None of the bands include repair of wood the colony already ate. A minor repair is typically $300–$2,000. Five hundred plus $300 is $800, inside the typical band. Five hundred plus $2,000 is $2,500, the bait top, $500 past the typical top. Two thousand plus $300 is $2,300, $300 past the typical top and inside the bait row, $200 under $2,500. Two thousand plus $2,000 is $4,000, $2,000 past the typical top, $1,500 past the bait top, and inside the heat row and the gas row, $4,000 under the wider top. A moderate repair is typically $2,000–$5,000. Five hundred plus $5,000 is $5,500, inside the heat row, $500 under $6,000, and inside the gas row. Two thousand plus $5,000 is $7,000, $1,000 past the heat top and inside the gas row, $1,000 under $8,000. A major repair is typically $5,000–$15,000. Five thousand is inside the heat row and the gas row. Eight thousand is the wider top and inside the major row. From $8,000–$15,000 the repair has left this page. Fifteen thousand is $7,000 past the wider top. Two thousand plus $15,000 is $17,000, $9,000 past the wider top. A treatment that leaves the eaten wood in place does not get the repair row.

None of the bands include a new crawl liner, which is the crawl space encapsulation guide, often $5,000–$15,000 for about 1,000 square feet. The overlap with this wider spread is $5,000–$8,000. Five thousand is $3,000 past the typical top, inside the heat row, $1,000 under $6,000, and inside the gas row. Eight thousand is this wider top and inside that encapsulation band. From $8,000–$15,000 the liner has left this page. Five hundred plus $5,000 is $5,500, inside the heat row and the gas row. Two thousand plus $5,000 is $7,000, inside the gas row and $1,000 past the heat top. Two thousand plus $15,000 is $17,000, $9,000 past this wider top. A treatment on a crawl that stays open does not get the liner row. A liner bid that already names the treatment is not this page on top.

None of the bands include a pier or a brace, which is the foundation repair guide, often $2,200–$8,400 for one settled or cracked area. The overlap with this wider spread is $2,200–$8,000. Twenty-two hundred is $200 past the typical top and inside the bait row, $300 under $2,500, and inside the heat row and the gas row. Eight thousand is this wider top and $400 under that foundation top. Eighty-four hundred is $400 past this wider top. Five hundred plus $2,200 is $2,700, $200 past the bait top and inside the heat row and the gas row. Two thousand plus $2,200 is $4,200, inside the heat row and the gas row, $3,800 under this wider top. Two thousand plus $8,400 is $10,400, $2,400 past this wider top. A treatment on a wall that has not moved does not get the pier row.

None of the bands include contained mold removal, which is the mold remediation guide, often $1,500–$3,000 for about 100 square feet. The overlap with the typical band is $1,500–$2,000. Fifteen hundred is $1,000 above the typical floor. Two thousand is the typical top and inside that mold band. Three thousand is $1,000 past the typical top, $500 past the bait top, and inside the heat row and the gas row. Five hundred plus $1,500 is $2,000, the typical top. Five hundred plus $3,000 is $3,500, $1,500 past the typical top and inside the heat row and the gas row. Two thousand plus $3,000 is $5,000, inside the heat row, $1,000 under $6,000, and inside the gas row. A treatment that leaves the mold in the wood does not get the mold row.

None of the bands include a one-time ant or spider treatment, which is the pest control guide, often $100–$500. The overlap with this typical band is the shared dollar at $500. One hundred is $100 under this wider floor of $200. From $200–$500 the insect visit is inside this wider spread and inside the spot row, and it meets this typical band only at $500. Five hundred can be a chemical barrier at its floor or an ant treatment at its top. Those are the same dollars and not the same job. Do not fold the insect visit into the termite price.

The band is the treatment price. A coupon on the visit is not subtracted. Read the form before you take a number off the bid. A credit you have not received is not inside the planning range. This page does not price a coupon, and it does not name a percentage of the cost that comes back at resale.

Warranties are part of the contract, and this page is not a reading of one company’s form. A treatment warranty commonly splits the workmanship from a bond that retreats a later colony, and a house that still shows wings is a question for that form. Read it. The warranty is not a dollar line in the planning range. The bond row above is the published span for that contract. It is not a promise that a particular form pays it.

A standard homeowners policy is built around sudden and accidental damage. Termite damage is the kind of loss those policies commonly treat as gradual and preventable. A flood or a sudden water loss, when the form responds to it, is a different question from a colony that has been in the wood for years. Read the form before you treat the policy as the budget. The $500–$2,000 band is not an insurance estimate. A home warranty is a different contract. Neither one is inside the planning range.

A permit the city requires for the treatment is a line on the bid. This page does not price a city’s fee on top of a complete price that already includes it. A permit the proposal already includes is not a second permit.

As a cross-check, not a bid: one whole-house chemical barrier is $500–$2,000, the typical band. A bait system is $1,000–$2,500. A heat tent on an average 2,000 square foot home is $2,000–$6,000. Gas fumigation of an average-sized home is $2,000–$8,000, and $8,000 is the top of the wider spread. A spot treatment is $200–$1,000. If a bid and that reading are far apart, the bid is a different method, an inspection, a year of monitoring, eaten wood, a crawl liner, a pier, mold, or a price that left the labor out.

What moves the price

Driver	How it changes the bid
Method	A spot treatment is $200–$1,000, and the typical band includes that row only from $500 to $1,000. A whole-house chemical barrier is $500–$2,000, the typical band. A bait system is $1,000–$2,500, and the typical band includes that row only up to $2,000. A heat tent is $2,000–$6,000. Gas fumigation is $2,000–$8,000, and the typical band includes those tents only at $2,000.
Species	Subterranean liquid treatment is $250–$2,000, and the typical band is that span from $500 up. Drywood treatment is $225–$2,500 and moves to a tent when the colony is past a local treatment. Formosan treatment is $800–$5,000 and can leave that top. The species picks the method. It is not a second bill.
The foot and the square foot	Chemical is $3–$20 a linear foot, and bait is $7–$12 a linear foot. Those rates read the whole-house rows. They are not added on top of them. Heat is $1–$3 a square foot, and gas is $1–$4. Two thousand square feet at those rates is the heat row and the average-home gas row.
Inspection	A visit the treatment already includes is inside the method row. A visit the bid leaves out is $75–$325. A waived visit is not that row. A bond at $500–$2,000 can match the typical band and is a later-visit contract, not the trench.
The crawl	A treatment on a crawl the house already has is this page. A new liner on about 1,000 square feet is $5,000–$15,000 on the encapsulation guide. A barrier bid that leaves the crawl open does not get that liner on top.
The foundation	One settled area, about two to four piers or a short brace, is $2,200–$8,400 on the foundation guide. A treatment on a wall that has not moved does not get that pier on top.
The mold	About 100 square feet of contained removal is $1,500–$3,000 on the mold guide. A treatment that leaves the colonized wood does not get that removal on top.
Access	A foundation the crew can trench or drill is the barrier this page prices. A slab with no access, a tight crawl, and a high-cost metro can clear the top of the typical band on a straightforward chemical job.

The method is the first cut, and it is not a rate you add to itself. A chemical barrier at $2,000 and a bait system at $2,000 and a tent at $2,000 are the same dollars. They are not the same treatment three times. Ask which method is in the price.

The species is the second cut. A subterranean colony at $2,000 and a drywood colony at $2,000 can share the typical top. One is usually a barrier. One may be on its way to a tent. The higher number is not a barrier that someone misread as a tent.

The same barrier in a lower-cost area and in a high-labor city can sit at opposite ends of $500–$2,000 without either bid being wrong. Ask whether the method is a spot, a chemical barrier, bait, heat, or gas, and ask whether the foundation is reachable. A crawl that stays damp, a foundation the colony has moved, and mold in the wood are the projects that show up beside this one. Price them on their own pages. Two bids that disagree about the method, the inspection, and whether the labor is in are not the same job.

DIY or hire

Hire the treatment when the foundation has to be trenched or drilled, stations have to go in the soil, or the house has to be tented. The chemical, the stations, and the gas are the job. A weekend crew is most likely to miss a gallery that is still active, and the colony shows up again in the same wood.

A store spray on one board you can see is a different product. It is not the installed rate on this page, and it is not a barrier that treats the soil around the foundation. The installed row is the pro price. On that chemical barrier, the job is $500–$2,000. That is the labor and the chemical together. A termite treatment that opens the soil, or tents the house, is a hire.

Do not skip the inspection to save the visit. If you are pricing a bottle, and the foundation is still an untreated trench line, you are pricing an exterminator’s job without the crew. The person who treats the house should say what happens if the species does not match the method.

Repair or replace

Treat the colony when mud tubes, discarded wings, or hollow wood show it is active, and the foundation can take a barrier or stations. That job is the typical band, $500–$2,000, when the method is a whole-house chemical barrier. A quote near $200 should say a spot, not a new barrier. A quote near $500 should say whether the labor and the chemical are both in. A quote near $1,000 can be a spot at its top, a chemical barrier inside the typical band, or a bait system at its floor. Ask which method the bid is.

Repair the wood when the colony is gone and the damage is the boards, not a wall that has moved. A minor repair is $300–$2,000. A moderate repair is $2,000–$5,000. A major repair is $5,000–$15,000, and from $8,000 up that repair has left this page. Pier or brace a wall that has moved. That job is the foundation repair guide, typically $2,200–$8,400. Encapsulate a crawl that stays damp and keeps the soil friendly to a subterranean colony. That job is the crawl space encapsulation guide, typically $5,000–$15,000. Remove mold from colonized material. That job is the mold remediation guide, typically $1,500–$3,000 for about 100 square feet. If the same season includes any of those, they are separate scopes. Do not fold them into the treatment price.

How long a treatment lasts is not a number on this page. A barrier is not a warranty that a new colony will never find the wood. A tent is not a warranty that the crawl will stay dry. The bid’s scope is the work you bought.

How to use this number

Ask two or three exterminators for a written price that names the species, the method, whether the price is a lump sum, whether the chemical or the stations or the tent and the labor are all included, whether the inspection is included, and what happens if the species does not match the method. Compare one whole-house chemical barrier with $500–$2,000. Compare a spot with $200–$1,000, a bait system with $1,000–$2,500, a heat tent with $2,000–$6,000, and gas fumigation with $2,000–$8,000. Keep the method and the labor inside those rows. Put a left-out inspection at $75–$325, and a left-out year of bait monitoring at $200–$400, on their own lines.

A very low bid on one barrier is a reason to ask whether the labor and the chemical are both included, not a reason to celebrate. A quote near $200 should say a spot, not a new whole-house barrier. A quote near $500 should say whether the labor is in. A high bid should point at bait, a tent, a hard foundation, a large house, eaten wood, or the labor market. Two or three local bids on the same species, the same method, and the same foundation are the number that matters. How this site sets the band is explained on the methodology page.