Orange County NY Pest Control & Exterminators

How it works

One call. A local exterminator who knows your area.

We are not a national call center reading from a script. We connect Orange County homeowners with independent pest and wildlife companies that already work their part of the county.

Call and describe the problem

Tell us your town and what you are seeing or hearing. Droppings, noises at night, winged bugs at the window, an animal under the porch. Details help.

Get matched with a local pro

We route you to a provider who covers your ZIP code and handles that pest, whether it is a quick ant treatment or a full attic exclusion.

Inspection, plan and a real quote

The technician finds out how they are getting in, explains your options and gives you a price before any work starts. You decide from there.

Most requested in Orange County

The pests Orange County homeowners call about most

Forests, farmland, two big rivers and a lot of older housing add up to a pest list that looks different from New York City or Long Island. These are the problems local exterminators handle week in and week out.

The #1 call in Orange County

Mice Control

If you live here long enough you will deal with mice. The house mouse is the most common pest call in the county by a wide margin, and the reason is simple: every fall, the fields, woodlots and stone walls that make this place pretty all empty out at once. Mice can flatten themselves through a gap about the width of a pencil, and an 1890s stone foundation in Goshen or a 1970s raised ranch in New Windsor has plenty of them. A good local tech will find the entry points along sill plates, utility lines, garage door corners and dryer vents, seal them with steel and copper mesh, and trap what is already inside. Poison alone just leaves you with a smell in the wall.

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Cities, farms and riverfronts

Rat Control

Norway rats burrow, and they are most common where food and water are steady: downtown Newburgh and Middletown, Port Jervis near the river, and farms with feed and grain anywhere in the county. Burrows along a foundation, gnawed holes in a shed floor and greasy rub marks on the sill are the usual signs.

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Carpenter ants lead the list

Ant Control

With this much forest, carpenter ants are everywhere. They do not eat wood but they hollow it out for nests, usually where it has stayed damp: deck ledgers, window sills, roof valleys. Pavement ants and odorous house ants round out the spring kitchen calls.

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Spring swarms, quiet damage

Termite Control

Eastern subterranean termites live in the soil throughout the Hudson Valley. Most homeowners only find out when a swarm of winged termites shows up near a basement window in April or May, or when a contractor opens a wall. Mud tubes on foundation walls are the giveaway.

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Old roofs, river valleys

Bat Removal

Big brown bats and little brown bats roost in attics, behind shutters and in barn peaks all over Orange County, especially near the Hudson and Delaware. Exclusion means one-way devices and sealing, timed around the summer pup season. A bat found in a bedroom is a health question, not just a nuisance.

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Attics and soffits

Squirrel Removal

Gray squirrels chew through soffit corners and gable vents, then nest in the insulation. Red squirrels and flying squirrels are common in wooded parts of Warwick, Tuxedo and Cornwall. Flying squirrels are nocturnal, so if the noise is at night, that is a strong hint.

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Chimneys, decks, garages

Raccoon Removal

Raccoons are strong enough to peel back roof vents and fascia boards. In the spring, mothers look for a safe dry space to have kits, which means chimneys and attics. Raccoons are a rabies vector in New York, so removal should be done by a licensed wildlife operator.

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Every service we cover

Exterminator and wildlife services, A to Z

Twenty pests and animals, sorted the way technicians think about them. Each page explains how to spot the problem, why it shows up in Orange County homes and what treatment actually involves.

Rodents

Mice and rats cause most of the damage and most of the calls between October and March.

Mice ControlYear-round, peaks Oct–Feb
Rat ControlCities, farms, riverfront

Insects & Crawling Pests

From carpenter ants in the spring to millipedes and crickets in the fall, insects follow the seasons here.

Ant ControlPeaks Apr–Jul
Termite ControlSwarms Apr–May
Spider ControlLate summer & fall
Cockroach ControlMulti-family buildings
Centipede ControlDamp basements
Millipede ControlSept–Oct invasions
House Cricket ControlFall, basements
Earwig ControlMulch beds, summer
Silverfish ControlBathrooms, attics
Clothes Moth ControlClosets, wool, storage

Wildlife & Nuisance Animals

Wildlife removal for hire in New York requires a Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator license from the DEC.

Bat RemovalExclusion Aug–May
Squirrel RemovalAttics, soffits
Raccoon RemovalChimneys, decks
Snake RemovalMay–Sept
Skunk RemovalUnder decks, porches
Mole ControlLawns, spring & fall
Opossum RemovalSheds, crawlspaces
Bird ControlVents, eaves, barns

Why here?

What makes pest control in Orange County different

About 400,000 people live in Orange County, spread across more than 800 square miles that run from the Hudson Highlands to the Delaware River. That spread is exactly why the pest picture changes so much from one town to the next.

Mountains and state forest on three sides

Storm King, Schunemunk, Bear Mountain, Harriman and Sterling Forest in the east and south, the Shawangunk Ridge in the west. Thousands of homes sit right at the tree line, which puts raccoons, squirrels, bats, carpenter ants and snakes a few yards from the back door. In the Highlands that includes copperheads and timber rattlesnakes, a protected species in New York.

The Black Dirt and working farms

The dark muck soils around Pine Island, Florida and Warwick grow onions and vegetables on thousands of acres, and dairy, horse and hay farms still cover much of Montgomery, Crawford, Hamptonburgh and Minisink. When harvest wraps up and the fields go bare in October, field mice and rats look for the nearest warm building. Homes near farmland get hit first and hardest.

Old housing stock

Newburgh's East End is one of the largest historic districts in New York State, packed with 1800s brick rowhouses that share walls. Goshen, Chester, Warwick and Port Jervis have their own blocks of Victorians and farmhouses with stone foundations and balloon framing. Those buildings are beautiful, and they have more gaps than a modern home. Mice, bats and squirrels find them.

Two rivers and a lot of moisture

The Hudson on the east, the Delaware and Neversink on the west, and the Wallkill, Moodna and Ramapo running through the middle. Damp soil and wet basements are a big reason termites, centipedes, millipedes, silverfish and carpenter ants do so well here. A dehumidifier is sometimes half the treatment.

Steady growth along Route 17 and I-84

New subdivisions in Monroe, Chester, Wallkill and Montgomery, warehouse development near Stewart Airport and big projects like LEGOLAND New York in Goshen all clear land. When the woods come down, the animals living there move to the closest houses. New construction neighborhoods often see a spike in moles, skunks and mice in the first few years.

Real winters

Overnight lows in the teens are normal here in January, and the higher towns near the Shawangunks and the New Jersey line run colder still. Cold is what drives rodents and wildlife indoors, so the busiest stretch for exterminators in Orange County runs from mid-October well into March.

Month by month

Orange County pest calendar

What tends to show up when, based on the Hudson Valley climate. The current month is highlighted.

Month	Most active	What homeowners notice
January	Mice, rats, overwintering spiders	Scratching in ceilings at night, droppings in the pantry or under the sink
February	Mice, squirrels, raccoons (mating)	Thumping in the attic at dawn, tracks in the snow leading under a deck
March	Raccoons, squirrels, early carpenter ants	Torn soffits and roof vents, a few large ants indoors on warm days
April	Termite swarms, carpenter ants, moles	Winged insects at basement windows, raised ridges across the lawn
May	Carpenter ants, termites, pavement ants, skunks	Ant trails on counters, sawdust piles, skunk holes in the lawn
June	Bats (pup season), ants, earwigs, snakes	Bats at dusk from the roofline, earwigs in mulch and under doormats
July	Snakes, spiders, earwigs, bats	Snakes in garages and stone walls, webs on every porch light
August	Bats (exclusion window opens), spiders, crickets	Bat droppings below gable vents, cobwebs in eaves
September	Millipedes, crickets, mice begin moving in	Millipedes curled up on basement floors after rain
October	Mice, rats, spiders, late millipedes	First droppings in the garage and kitchen drawers
November	Mice and rats (peak), squirrels	Gnawing sounds, chewed food boxes, insulation pulled from walls
December	Mice, rats, clothes moths, silverfish	Holes in stored wool, droppings in holiday decoration boxes

Service areas

Pest control in every corner of Orange County

We split the county into seven areas so you can find information that actually applies to your house. Pick your region, then your town, village or hamlet for local pest notes, ZIP codes and the problems neighbors call about most.

Newburgh & the Hudson Riverfront

Brick rowhouses in Newburgh's East End, river-damp basements in New Windsor and Cornwall, and wooded lots running down into the Highlands.

Norway rats along the Newburgh waterfront and the Broadway corridor, cockroaches that travel between units in multi-family buildings, bats roosting in the steep Victorian roofs of Cornwall-on-Hudson, and copperheads and timber rattlesnakes on the slopes around Highland Falls and Fort Montgomery.

Newburgh
Town of Newburgh
Balmville
Gardnertown
Orange Lake
New Windsor
Vails Gate
Rock Tavern
Cornwall
Cornwall-on-Hudson
Mountainville
Highland Falls
Fort Montgomery

ZIP codes: 10922, 10928, 10953, 12518, 12520, 12550, 12551, 12552, 12553, 12575, 12584, 12586

Middletown & the Town of Wallkill

The county's commercial middle: older city blocks, Route 211 retail corridors and fast-growing subdivisions out toward Slate Hill and Otisville.

Rats working the dumpsters behind the Route 211 shopping strips, mice in the post-war ranch houses around Mechanicstown and Scotchtown, and moles and skunks in the newer lawns out past Slate Hill and New Hampton.

Middletown
Town of Wallkill
Scotchtown
Circleville
Mechanicstown
Howells
Wawayanda
Slate Hill
New Hampton
Mount Hope
Otisville

ZIP codes: 10919, 10932, 10940, 10941, 10958, 10963, 10973

Montgomery, Walden & Pine Bush

Farm country along the Wallkill River and the Shawangunk foothills, where barns, horse properties and stone foundations set the pest picture.

Barn mice and rats on the dairy and horse farms, raccoons in hay lofts, carpenter ants in old timber framing, and black rat snakes that like the fieldstone walls lining back roads around Pine Bush and Campbell Hall.

Montgomery
Town of Montgomery
Walden
Maybrook
Pine Bush
Crawford
Bullville
Thompson Ridge
Campbell Hall
Hamptonburgh

ZIP codes: 10915, 10916, 10924, 10985, 12543, 12549, 12566, 12586

Goshen, Chester & Blooming Grove

The county seat, the Route 17 villages and Moodna Creek country, mixing 1800s village centers with newer cul-de-sac neighborhoods.

Mice using the open wall cavities of 1800s village homes in Goshen and Chester, centipedes and millipedes in damp Moodna Creek basements near Washingtonville, and skunks under decks in the newer Blooming Grove developments.

Goshen
Chester
Sugar Loaf
Washingtonville
Blooming Grove
Salisbury Mills
South Blooming Grove

ZIP codes: 10914, 10918, 10924, 10981, 10992, 12577

Monroe, Woodbury & Tuxedo

Forested ridges of Harriman and Sterling Forest pressing right up against busy neighborhoods along Routes 17, 32 and 208.

Homes that back right onto Harriman and Sterling Forest see raccoons, squirrels, bats and carpenter ants all season, while the denser housing in Monroe and Kiryas Joel deals more with mice and cockroaches moving between units.

Monroe
Harriman
Central Valley
Highland Mills
Woodbury
Kiryas Joel
Tuxedo
Tuxedo Park
Southfields

ZIP codes: 10917, 10926, 10930, 10950, 10975, 10987

Warwick Valley & the Black Dirt Region

Onion fields, orchards and lake cottages, from Florida and Pine Island across to Greenwood Lake on the New Jersey line.

Field mice leave the onion fields after harvest and head straight for the nearest foundation, lake cottages around Greenwood Lake fill with spiders and moths when they sit closed, and orchards draw raccoons and opossums in the fall.

Warwick
Greenwood Lake
Florida
Pine Island
Bellvale
New Milford
Minisink
Westtown
Unionville
Johnson

ZIP codes: 10912, 10921, 10925, 10933, 10959, 10969, 10988, 10990, 10998

Port Jervis & the Upper Delaware

River towns and mountain roads where the Neversink meets the Delaware, right at the New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania corner.

Older railroad-era housing in Port Jervis, river lots that flood every few years, bats feeding over the Delaware on summer nights, and rattlesnakes on the rocky ledges above Route 97 near Hawk's Nest.

Port Jervis
Deerpark
Huguenot
Cuddebackville
Sparrowbush
Westbrookville
Greenville

ZIP codes: 10940, 12729, 12746, 12771, 12780, 12785

From your neighbors

What Orange County homeowners say

★★★★★

“Found little wings all over the basement window sill in April. Inspection confirmed termites in a sill plate. Treatment was quicker and less disruptive than I expected.”

Priya N. · Chester, NY · Termites

★★★★★

“House centipedes all over the finished basement. They pointed out the dehumidifier wasn't keeping up. Treated the perimeter and fixed the humidity. Big difference.”

Linda M. · New Windsor, NY · Centipedes

★★★★★

“Squirrels chewed right through the soffit on our old farmhouse. They put a one-way door on, waited till they were out, then patched it. No more 6am thumping.”

Carol S. · Goshen, NY · Squirrels

Find by ZIP

Orange County, NY ZIP codes we cover

Every ZIP code in the county, matched to the towns and hamlets it serves. Several ZIPs, like 10940 and 12550, stretch across more than one town, so you will see them listed more than once.

10912 Bellvale

10914 Blooming Grove, South Blooming Grove

10915 Crawford, Bullville

10916 Campbell Hall, Hamptonburgh

10917 Central Valley, Woodbury

10918 Chester

10919 Town of Wallkill, Circleville

10921 Florida

10922 Fort Montgomery

10924 Hamptonburgh, Goshen

10925 Greenwood Lake

10926 Harriman

10928 Highland Falls

10930 Highland Mills, Woodbury

10932 Howells

10933 Minisink, Johnson

10940 Middletown, Town of Wallkill, Mechanicstown, Wawayanda, Mount Hope, Greenville

10941 Middletown, Town of Wallkill, Scotchtown

10950 Monroe, Kiryas Joel

10953 Mountainville

10958 Wawayanda, New Hampton

10959 New Milford

10963 Mount Hope, Otisville

10969 Pine Island

10973 Wawayanda, Slate Hill

10975 Southfields

10981 Sugar Loaf

10985 Crawford, Thompson Ridge

10987 Tuxedo, Tuxedo Park

10988 Minisink, Unionville

10990 Warwick

10992 Washingtonville, Blooming Grove

10998 Minisink, Westtown

12518 Cornwall

12520 Cornwall-on-Hudson

12543 Town of Montgomery, Maybrook

12549 Montgomery, Town of Montgomery

12550 Newburgh, Town of Newburgh, Balmville, Gardnertown, Orange Lake

12551 Newburgh

12552 Newburgh

12553 New Windsor

12566 Pine Bush, Crawford

12575 Rock Tavern

12577 Salisbury Mills

12584 Vails Gate

12586 Town of Newburgh, Town of Montgomery, Walden

12729 Deerpark, Cuddebackville

12746 Deerpark, Huguenot

12771 Port Jervis, Deerpark, Greenville

12780 Deerpark, Sparrowbush

12785 Westbrookville

Looking for an exterminator near me in Orange County?

When something is chewing inside your wall at 11 at night, you grab your phone and search "exterminator near me" or "pest control near me." The trouble is that half the results are national lead sites routing calls to whoever bid highest, sometimes from two counties away.

We only work Orange County. When you call, you are matched with pest control near you in the real sense: a company that already drives Route 17, I-84 and 9W every day and knows that a Pine Island farmhouse and a Newburgh rowhouse need completely different approaches.

So whether you typed "mouse exterminator near me" in Middletown, "bat removal near me" in Cornwall-on-Hudson or "termite inspection near me" in Chester, the number at the top of this page is the shortest path to a local technician.

Call (845) 610-0419

Common local searches we can help with

Before you hire

Checking out a pest control company in New York

New York is stricter than a lot of states about who can spray, trap and remove animals. It is worth two minutes to check before anyone starts work.

Pesticide work requires a business registration and certified applicators through the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Technicians should be able to tell you their certification category and what product they plan to use.

Wildlife removal for a fee requires a Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator license, also issued by the DEC. That covers raccoons, skunks, squirrels, bats, opossums and snakes.

Insurance matters most for exclusion jobs, where someone is on a ladder at your roofline. Ask for a certificate of liability insurance.

Questions worth asking on the first visit

Where exactly are they getting in, and can you show me?
Is the price for sealing entry points, or just for treatment?
How many follow-up visits are included?
Is there a warranty if they come back, and for how long?
For wildlife: what happens to the animal, and when will the openings be sealed?
For termites: is it a liquid treatment, bait stations, or both?

A good technician is happy to answer all of these. If someone pushes a long-term contract before they have even looked in your attic or basement, keep looking.

Questions

Pest control FAQ for Orange County homeowners

How quickly can someone get out to my house?

It depends on where you are and what time you call, but many of the providers we connect homeowners with offer same-day or next-day visits across most of Orange County. Situations like a bat loose in the house or an animal trapped in a wall are usually prioritized. When you call, tell us your town and what you are seeing, and we will point you to someone who can get there.

How much does pest control cost in Orange County, NY?

There is no single price. A one-time ant or spider treatment costs far less than sealing an old farmhouse against mice or setting up termite bait stations around a full perimeter. Wildlife work is priced by the animal, the number of entry points and how much repair the roofline needs. Most providers will give you a ballpark on the phone and a firm quote after they see the house.

Do I need a licensed company to remove wildlife?

In New York, anyone who removes nuisance wildlife for a fee needs a Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator (NWCO) license from the Department of Environmental Conservation, and anyone applying pesticides commercially needs DEC certification. Ask for both. Licensed operators also know which animals are protected, such as timber rattlesnakes, and how to handle them legally.

I found a bat in my bedroom. What should I do?

Close the door to keep it in one room, do not handle it with bare hands, and call. New York health officials advise that a bat found in a room with a sleeping person, a young child or a pet should be safely captured and tested for rabies rather than simply let outside. Your county health department can tell you whether testing is needed.

How do I know if it is mice or rats?

Size of the droppings is the easiest tell. Mouse droppings are about the size of a grain of rice; rat droppings are closer to a raisin or an olive pit. Rats also leave greasy rub marks along walls and tend to burrow outside, while mice nest inside walls, drawers and insulation.

Are treatments safe for kids and pets?

Modern pest control leans heavily on sealing, trapping and targeted baits placed where children and pets cannot reach them. If anyone in the house has asthma, is pregnant or you keep fish, birds or reptiles, mention it on the call so the technician can plan around it.

Do you cover my town?

We cover all of Orange County: the cities of Newburgh, Middletown and Port Jervis, all twenty-one towns, and the villages and hamlets inside them. If you are just over the line in Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Putnam or Sussex County, call anyway. Many local providers cross county lines.

Is this service free?

Yes. Calling us costs you nothing. We connect you with an independent local provider, and you deal with them directly on pricing and scheduling.

Don't wait for the problem to grow.

A pair of mice in November is a dozen by February. Call now and talk to someone local.