Coastal bungalows to downtown towers
Pest control in Long Beach, CA 90802
Long Beach's older wood housing and dense downtown make it one of the busiest pest markets on the coast. The Huntington Beach office is a short run up the shoreline.
Updated October 2026

Long Beach, at a glance
- Nearest office
- Huntington Beach, Atlanta Ave
- ZIPs
- 90802 and all Long Beach ZIPs
- Top pests
- Drywood termites, roof rats, roaches
- Line
- Answered 24/7
Pest control in Long Beach covers 90802 downtown and every neighborhood out to Bixby Knolls, Los Altos and East Long Beach, usually served from the Huntington Beach office a short drive up the coast. Older wood-framed homes put Long Beach in the heart of the drywood termite and fumigation belt, and dense multi-unit buildings near downtown move German roaches, mice and bed bugs between units. Call (323) 329-3792, answered 24/7.
What we see here
Old wood and close quarters
Long Beach has two pest personalities. Its residential neighborhoods, Bluff Park, Belmont Heights, Bixby Knolls, California Heights, are full of craftsman homes and California bungalows from the early and mid twentieth century, built from the kind of wood framing drywood termites have been working for decades. Coastal Southern California has the highest drywood prevalence in the continental US, and the LA, Long Beach and Pasadena belt sees unusually high fumigation volume because of it. Raised foundations in older homes add crawl spaces that opossums and skunks den in.
Downtown and the denser corridors tell a different story: older apartment buildings with shared plumbing chases, restaurant rows along the main streets, and alleys strung with utility lines. There, German roaches and mice move between units, bed bugs travel with tenants, and roof rats commute along the wires behind businesses and homes alike.

Neighborhood pressure
How problems change across Long Beach
Older residential districts
Drywood termites, carpenter ants in damp wood and wildlife in crawl spaces under raised floors.
Downtown and dense corridors
German roaches, mice and bed bugs in multi-unit buildings, roof rats in the alleys.
Shoreline and marinas
Marine-layer moisture pests and summer mosquitoes around water features and parks.
North and east Long Beach
Slab tract homes with Argentine ants, roof rats in garages and subterranean termites at the foundation.
Local pressure
Why Long Beach sees steady calls
Long Beach's coastal climate never delivers a winter cold enough to knock populations back, so roach, rodent and ant activity runs all year and drywood termites swarm every late summer and fall. The city runs its own health department, which handles public vector concerns, but attics, crawl spaces, kitchens and yards are left to property owners and managers. For older homes, an annual termite inspection is the single most valuable habit; for apartment buildings, a building-level program stops the same problem cycling between units.
Common questions
Asked by Long Beach callers
Usually the Huntington Beach office on Atlanta Ave, a short run up the coast, with the Los Angeles office on Cahuenga Blvd W as backup. The dispatcher sends whichever crew is closer at the time you call.
Long Beach sits in the coastal belt with the highest drywood termite prevalence in the continental US, and much of its housing is older wood-framed bungalows and craftsman homes. When drywood colonies spread through a structure like that, tenting is often the only treatment that reaches them all.
German roaches, mice and bed bugs travel between units in older multi-unit buildings, and roof rats work the alleys and utility lines. Shared-wall problems need treatment built around the building, with documentation your landlord can act on.
Marinas, the river mouths and park lakes add Culex mosquito sources through summer, but most daytime biting in backyards comes from invasive Aedes breeding in containers on the property itself. A yard program goes after both the resting adults and those containers.
Yes, from downtown 90802 and the shoreline neighborhoods to Bixby Knolls, North Long Beach, Los Altos and East Long Beach.
Long Beach runs its own health department, which handles public vector concerns like standing water at public sites and disease surveillance. Rats in your attic, ants in the kitchen and termites in your framing are the property owner's responsibility.
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- Phone
- (323) 329-3792
- Hours
- Open and answering 24/7, every day
- Service office
- 3123 Cahuenga Blvd W #390, Los Angeles, CA 90068
- Head office
- 7623 Atlanta Ave, Ste 284, Huntington Beach, CA 92646
- Coverage
- Los Angeles, Orange and neighboring counties