Proof and Sources: Where the Augusta Figures Come From

The sources fall into four groups, and they do not carry equal weight. Public bodies come first: the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) Structural Pest Control Section and its rules, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the National Park Service and the US Census Bureau. Reference and civic material comes second: the New Georgia Encyclopedia, the City of Augusta comprehensive plan and Wikipedia's Census-derived population entries, used for geography and population only.

Commercial cost guides come third: pestcontrolpricing.com, termitetreatmentprice.com, homeyou.com and swivl.tech. They are cited by name without endorsement, because they publish numbers a reader can go and check, not because their methods are known to be sound. Practitioner material comes last: bighampest.com, a Terminix page on Formosan termites in Augusta, and a UGA Extension county post on fire ant baiting. Practitioner claims are labeled as such, and none of these companies is a partner of this site.

Two reading methods were used, and the table says which applies to each row. Live means the figure was read on the publisher's own page on 2026-09-10. Snippet means it came from a search-result extract of that page and is used at its stated precision only.

The general pest conflict is a method difference. homeyou.com's figures are quote-request marketplace estimates for Augusta: a typical range of $67 to $658, an average of $110 to $280, and recurring plans from $40 to $45 monthly or $100 to $300 quarterly. pestcontrolpricing.com's Georgia guide, updated May 26, 2026, is a statewide price guide: $90 to $540 per treatment with a median of $154, and quarterly visits at $90 to $160. A city-level marketplace estimate and a statewide guide are different measurements, and the cost page presents both with that difference stated.

The termite conflict matters more because the sums are larger. termitetreatmentprice.com puts most Georgia homeowners at $900 to $3,800, with liquid treatment at $1,300 to $2,500 and a bait system at $1,900 to $3,400 plus $300 to $475 a year for the bond. Its Augusta and east Georgia row reads liquid $1,200 to $2,300, bait $1,800 to $3,200, bond $285 to $425 a year. pestcontrolpricing.com gives a liquid barrier at $700 to $1,800, a bait system at $1,100 to $2,200 and an annual bond at $175 to $375. The two do not overlap cleanly on either treatment, and the termite treatment page labels the Augusta and east Georgia row as the most local figure available rather than as the answer.

Mosquito work has a statewide seasonal program of $375 to $720 from pestcontrolpricing.com and a per-treatment figure of $150 to $350 from bighampest.com, one practitioner's published price. Rodent work has a Georgia exclusion package of $350 to $1,400 from pestcontrolpricing.com and an Augusta per-job figure of $57 to $712 from swivl.tech, read as a snippet.

The GDA Structural Pest Control page was read live on 2026-09-10 and lists all three credentials. The statement that a firm working for hire needs a Company License plus a designated operator for each category it works in, being Household Pest Control, Wood Destroying Organisms and Fumigation, came from a search snippet and is used at that precision only. The public lookup is the GDA Structural Pest Control Search, on the department's own site.

Rule 620-6-.03 is cited for the Official Georgia Wood Infestation Inspection Report, the document used at real-estate closings, issued only by an operator holding the Wood Destroying Organisms category and carrying a 90-day guarantee clause. That description came from a snippet of the rule and of GDA fact sheet SPCC 14-10, so it is a description of what the document is, not a clause-by-clause summary. Rule 620-6-.04 is cited by number as the standard a Georgia termite treatment is measured against; the site does not summarize its contents.

This is the reader's own checking route, printed because this site does not check any company. No license number is confirmed here, no operator credential is inspected, and no insurance certificate is seen. Asking whether a company holds a current GDA Company License, and who its designated operator is for your category, is an ordinary question.

UGA Extension Circular C868, read live: native subterranean termites begin swarming in February and March, swarm during the day and are not attracted to lights; Formosan swarmers are about half an inch long against three-eighths of an inch for natives, swarm at night and are attracted to light; and, in the circular's own words, the Formosan termite is rare in Georgia. pestcontrolpricing.com's Georgia guide adds that swarming peaks mid-March to late May statewide, with a smaller coastal fall swarm in October. A Terminix page describing Formosans as found only sporadically in Augusta is labeled a practitioner claim.

New Georgia Encyclopedia, snippet: Augusta sits on the Fall Line, where the Piedmont meets the Coastal Plain, and the Sandhills north and west of the city are one to twenty-five meters of roughly 95 percent quartz sand, highly permeable with very low water-holding capacity. Augusta comprehensive plan, chapter 8, snippet: eastern and northern Richmond County is nearly level Savannah River floodplain. Together these are why the moisture story on this site is about drainage and humidity in sand and floodplain.

National Park Service, snippet: the Augusta Canal was built in 1845 and designated in 1996 as Georgia's first National Heritage Area. Historic-district facts, including nine Augusta neighborhoods on the National Register, also came from snippets and describe housing age qualitatively.

Population figures, 2020 Census via Wikipedia unless noted, all snippets: Evans CDP 34,536; Martinez CDP 34,535; Hephzibah 3,830; North Augusta, South Carolina 24,379. Grovetown's 18,803 is a 2026 World Population Review estimate. Columbia County's 167,472 is from the American Community Survey 2024 via Census Reporter. Annual rainfall is given as roughly 45 to 49 inches because the sources differ.

• No call data yet. This site has accumulated no record of how many people have used it or what happened afterward. No page claims a response time, a match rate or a typical outcome.
• No local BLS wage. The Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook gives a May 2025 national median of $45,250 a year for pest control workers, with the 10th percentile below $34,680 and the 90th above $61,890, read as a snippet. No Augusta-Richmond County figure for SOC 37-2021 was found. Job-posting averages from Indeed, $16.88 an hour across 31 salaries in October 2025, and ZipRecruiter, $17.03 an hour, appear only where labeled as posting averages, a weaker measure.
• No Census median year built. Housing age is described through historic districts and practitioner description, never as a percentage or a median year.
• No fumigation price. Neither Georgia cost guide consulted publishes a tent fumigation figure, so fumigation is described as a treatment class with no dollar range.
• No official Formosan detection record. UGA C868 calls the Formosan termite rare in Georgia; a practitioner page says it is found sporadically in Augusta. No state or county record exists that this site could cite, so local prevalence is left open.

A plausible local number makes a page look more authoritative and wrong in a way no reader can detect. A labeled gap is the more useful thing to publish.

A stale date is a warning in itself. If a figure matters to a decision, read it at the publisher rather than on any pest control website, this one included. How figures are chosen and why conflicts are printed rather than resolved is on the methodology page.

Reported errors are corrected with the better source named, or the line is removed. What to include is on the contact page; who operates this site and how it is funded is on the about page.

Sources referenced across this site, all retrieved 2026-09-10: the full list, with scope and limitations, is the first table below.