Water damage drying
Fire & smoke cleanup
Mold remediation
Storm response
Sewage cleanup
ReconstructionFree visual inspection and a written scope of work before any mitigation begins - photos, moisture readings, and drying logs go in your claim file
The scope we write is the scope we bill. Anything new gets shown to you, in writing, before we touch it.
Get your free estimateFast, Reliable Fire Damage Restoration Across West Hills
Fire damage restoration in West Hills typically costs $2,800 to $12,500 depending on square footage, smoke penetration depth, and how much water the fire department used to knock the fire down. Most West Hills homes we see need full smoke odor removal, structural drying, and content cleaning, not just a coat of paint. If you’re standing in a smoke-damaged house right now, call (559) 258-5719 and a live person answers, 24 hours a day. Our crews know West Hills streets, the older stucco ranchers, and how Santa Ana winds push ash into south-facing attics.
Why Keegan Restoration Woodland Hills Is West Hills’s Preferred Fire Damage Restoration Company
West Hills homeowners call us because we show up inside the window we give them, put the price in writing before touching anything, and stand behind the work with the 365-Day Done Right Promise. That’s a written one-year guarantee: if the repair fails within a year, we return and make it right at no charge. Shane Pruitt, who leads our team, runs every job to The Garrison Standard, the same written-playbook approach our crews have followed since 2005 as part of the Garrison Partners family.
Our technicians are background-checked and arrive in uniform. Every job gets photographed and documented from first walkthrough to final air scrub, formatted to support your insurance claim. We don’t hand you a vague verbal estimate and hope you sign. We hand you a written scope of loss, a line-item price, and a plan. The price doesn’t move at the door. That discipline is why West Hills homeowners who’ve been burned before by no-show contractors call us first the second time.
Restoration work we handle
Fire Damage Cleanup in West Hills
Fire Damage Cleanup in West Hills means removing charred debris, soot from every horizontal surface, and smoke residue that’s already worked into drywall and framing before it permanently stains or corrodes. In older West Hills homes, the first 24 hours matter most. Soot is acidic. Left on a 1970s stucco home’s painted walls for a week, it etches and the paint fails. We use HEPA air scrubbers, dry sponges on porous surfaces, and professional-grade equipment from Dri-Eaz and Phoenix. A typical fire damage cleanup in West Hills runs $1,800 to $4,200 for a single-room kitchen fire, and $6,500 to $11,000 when smoke spread through multiple rooms.
Emergency Board-Up and Initial Containment
If fire crews broke windows or cut through the roof, we board up the openings the same day to keep weather and intruders out. We run containment barriers and air scrubbers before invasive work starts, so we’re not pushing soot into rooms that weren’t damaged.
Content Pack-Out and Cleaning
Smoke gets into clothing, furniture, and electronics even when the fire itself stayed in one room. We inventory and pack out salvageable contents, clean them off-site, and store them until the structure is ready. You get a documented contents list for your adjuster.
Smoke Odor Removal in West Hills
Smoke Odor Removal in West Hills is not air freshener and it is not a coat of Killz. It’s a process: removing the odor source, then running desiccant drying or thermal fogging, then sealing surfaces that would otherwise off-gas smoke smell into your living space on every hot day. West Hills evenings cool down after hot afternoons, and that temperature swing makes smoke odor pulse back out of drywall and attic insulation. A proper smoke odor removal on a 1970s West Hills rancher runs $1,500 to $3,800 depending on attic size and whether we need to replace insulation. Painting first traps the odor; it does not remove it.
Attic Odor Source Removal
The south-facing attic in a West Hills home is where ash settles deepest when Santa Ana winds shift from the canyons. We remove affected insulation, clean the framing, and fog the space before new insulation goes in.
Whole-Home Air Scrubbing
We run HEPA air scrubbers and hydroxyl generators through the full interior, including closets and crawlspace access points. We don’t just chase the room where the fire was. Odor hides in the rooms where the pressure differential draws it.
Trusted Brands We Service in West Hills
Our crews in West Hills run professional-grade drying and extraction equipment from Dri-Eaz and Phoenix, and we follow industry standards set by RIA and IFA. That matters when your insurance adjuster asks whether the documentation meets restoration-industry benchmarks. It does. We stock common replacement filters, scrubber cartridges, and moisture-meter calibration gear locally, which means we don’t wait on a supplier delivery to start your job. The equipment is only as good as the technician reading the psychrometrics, and ours are trained to do that by the book.
Common Fire Damage Restoration Problems We See in West Hills Homes
- South-side attic soot and ash from Santa Ana events. West Hills sits at the western edge of the San Fernando Valley against the Simi Hills, and a single wind shift from the canyons can push ember and ash into south-facing attic vents. Homeowners who repaint before the smoke odor is truly neutralized end up with odor that resurfaces on hot days.
- Hidden water damage in original composition shingle roofs. The 1960s-80s homes around West Hills have roof decks that absorb water from the fire department’s hoses. Crews that don’t moisture-map after suppression miss water wicking into wooden framing, which leads to rot and mold long after the fire is out.
- North-side crawlspace flooding from the same storm cycle. Homes at the base of the hills can flood their crawlspaces in the same week as a fire response. A scope that only treats fire damage leaves standing water, and standing water in a dark crawlspace breeds mold within 24 to 48 hours.
- Odor in wall cavities behind untouched drywall. West Hills stucco homes have open stud bays that act as chimneys during a fire. Smoke finds its way behind drywall and into insulation in rooms that look fine. We cut small access points to inspect and fog those cavities rather than assuming the visible room is the whole job.
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Here’s what West Hills homeowners typically pay. A small kitchen fire with light smoke: $2,800 to $4,800. A room-and-contents fire with attic smoke spread: $5,500 to $9,500. Whole-home smoke and ash infiltration from a nearby wildfire: $7,500 to $12,500. Board-up alone runs $600 to $1,200. Smoke odor removal without structural repair runs $1,500 to $3,800. What moves the number: square footage, whether insulation needs replacing, how much content cleaning you need, and how long the smoke sat before we got the call. We give you a written price before any work starts, and that price doesn’t move at the door. Call (559) 258-5719 for a free estimate.
We Also Serve Cities Near West Hills
Our fire damage restoration crews serve West Hills and the surrounding San Fernando Valley communities, including Canoga Park, Woodland Hills, Winnetka, and Calabasas. If your home sits on the edge between West Hills and one of these cities, call us and we’ll confirm coverage. For more on what full-service fire damage work looks like, see our Fire Damage Restoration overview or our local page for Fire Damage Restoration in West Hills.
Serving West Hills, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the West Hills area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Fire Damage Restoration in West Hills
West Hills homes take a specific kind of damage we rarely see at the same rate elsewhere: fire and water from the same week. A Santa Ana wind event drives embers and ash into south-side attics while a sudden downpour floods north-side crawlspaces at the base of the Simi Hills. Our crews in West Hills routinely do smoke odor removal on one side of a boulevard and water extraction on the other, in the same storm cycle. Call (559) 258-5719 and we’ll walk the house and tell you the full scope before anything starts.
Check the attic. South-facing attics in West Hills are where ash settles deepest when winds shift from the canyons, and you can’t see the full extent from the living room. Walk the attic access and look for gray film on insulation and framing, then check the vent screens. If you smell smoke on a hot day, it’s already in the materials, not just the air. That’s when you call us for smoke odor removal before the stains set and the insulation needs full replacement.
Yes, and it has to be handled in the same scope. The fire department’s water runs through the roof and down the stud bays of a 1970s West Hills stucco home fast, saturating drywall, insulation, and wood framing. If we only treat the fire damage, the remaining moisture wicks into framing and creates mold within 24 to 48 hours. We run structural drying with Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers and document moisture readings until framing returns to pre-loss condition.
Call the same day if possible, and do not paint anything first. Smoke odor sets into drywall and insulation quickly in West Hills’s warm, dry air, and the temperature swing from hot afternoons to cool evenings drives it deeper into porous surfaces. Once paint seals the wall, you’ve locked the odor in and made removal more expensive. Our crew can usually be at a West Hills home inside a few hours, ready to start air scrubbing and source removal.
They need a moisture map, not just a visual pass. The original composition shingle roofs on 1960s-80s West Hills homes can hide fire damage in the roof deck, and after the fire department’s water application, that deck holds water. We moisture-map the roof deck and framing, document the readings, and include roof deck replacement in the written scope if the deck is compromised. You’ll get the same documentation for your insurance adjuster whether the damage is fire, water, or both.
Call Keegan Restoration Woodland Hills for Fire Damage in West Hills
If your West Hills home has smoke, soot, or water from a fire, call (559) 258-5719. A live person answers, we give you a written price before any work begins, and every repair is backed by the 365-Day Done Right Promise. That’s the Garrison Standard, and we run every West Hills job to it.
Written by Shane Pruitt, Owner at Keegan Restoration Woodland Hills, serving West Hills as part of the Garrison Partners family since 2005.