Serving Fairfax, Virginia
Wildlife Removal in Fairfax, VA
Scratching over the bedroom ceiling at 5 a.m. is not the house settling. We get squirrels, raccoons and bats out of Fairfax homes — and seal the house so they cannot come back.
Licensed in VA (#56104) and MD (#049372). Family-owned, 20+ years, answering 24 hours a day.
Why Fairfax Homes Get Wildlife Problems
We run calls across the City of Fairfax and the neighborhoods around it — Mosby Woods, Mantua, Kings Park West, Farrcroft and Fairfax Station among them.
Fairfax is unusually good habitat for the animals we remove, and it comes down to housing stock and tree cover. A large share of the homes here went up between the 1950s and 1970s, and those houses have wood fascia, open soffit returns, brick-to-siding transitions and original ridge vents — entry points that have had half a century to loosen. Newer construction is not immune, it just fails differently: gable vents on two-story colonials are a favorite of bats, and houses built into wooded parcels push groundhogs under decks, sheds and stoops.
Wrap either one in Fairfax’s mature oak and tulip poplar canopy, add the stream valleys running through Daniels Run and Accotink Creek, and you get dense squirrel and raccoon populations living at roof height with a direct bridge onto your home.
The Animals We Remove in Fairfax
Eastern Gray Squirrel — our highest-volume Fairfax call
Squirrels exploit gaps as small as an inch and a half, and once inside they chew — including electrical wiring, which is a genuine fire risk in an insulated attic. They have two breeding seasons a year, so a single female in February means five animals by March. We remove the adults, hand-remove any litter (a sealed attic with young inside means a dead-animal problem two weeks later), then close every entry point in metal.
Raccoons — the most destructive
A raccoon weighs 15–25 pounds and opens a roof like a hand. They flatten insulation, tear ductwork, and leave latrines that soak into drywall.
Bats — the one to get right first time
The Big Brown Bat and Little Brown Bat are the species most likely to roost in a Fairfax attic. Bats cannot be trapped or poisoned; The only method that actually works is exclusion — one-way devices that let them leave and not return, then sealing every gap larger than a quarter inch.
Timing matters legally and ethically: from roughly May through August flightless pups are present, and sealing the roost traps them inside. During those months we install devices and complete the seal after the pups can fly.
Also common in Fairfax: groundhogs under decks, sheds and stoops · skunks denning in crawl spaces · foxes under outbuildings · opossums in garages · birds nesting in dryer and bath vents · snakes in basements and garages.
How a Fairfax Job Actually Runs
1. Inspection
We walk the roofline, soffits, vents, chimney and foundation, then go into the attic or crawl space to find entry points, nesting sites and damage. You get photos of what we find.
2. Humane Removal
Species-appropriate and humane: trapping and hand-removal for squirrels and raccoons including young, one-way exclusion for bats, targeted work for groundhogs, skunks and snakes.
3. Exclusion
Every entry point sealed in steel mesh, heavy-gauge metal flashing or hardware cloth. Not foam, not caulk — a squirrel chews through both in an afternoon.
Why Fairfax Homeowners Call Us Instead of a Pest Company
- 20+ years, family-owned — you deal with the people doing the work.
- Licensed in Virginia (#56104) and Maryland (#049372).
- Humane methods, and legal ones — we work inside Virginia’s relocation and protected-species rules, not around them.
- We seal, not just trap — the reason customers do not call us back about the same animal.
- 24/7 answering, with same-day service across Fairfax.
- Full restoration in-house — attic cleanup, insulation, chimney caps, crawl space work.
Humane Solutions. Lasting Results.
Fairfax Wildlife Removal FAQs
How fast can you get to my Fairfax home?
Same day in most cases, and we answer 24 hours a day. Animals in a living space, a bat in a bedroom, or a rabies-vector animal get priority.
Can you just relocate the animal?
No — and no one legally can. What genuinely solves the problem is sealing the entry points so nothing else moves in.
There are bats in my attic and it is June. Can you seal it now?
Not immediately. Flightless pups are present from roughly May through August, and sealing the roost would trap them inside — inhumane, and it creates an odor and insect problem in your ceiling. We install one-way exclusion devices and complete the seal once the young can fly.
Do you handle the mess, or just the animal?
Both. We remove contaminated insulation, sanitize, replace insulation and repair the damage. That is usually the larger part of the job.
Do you treat insects or rodents like mice?
No. We are a wildlife company — squirrels, raccoons, bats, groundhogs, skunks, foxes, opossums, birds and snakes. For ants or roaches you want a pest control company.
Get Your Fairfax Home Sealed
Noise in the attic, droppings near vents, or a smell in a wall will not resolve on its own — and it gets more expensive as the damage accumulates.