Fire Damage in Burnt Store, FL | Fire Cleanup & Restoration
Trusted Cape Coral Fire Damage handles fire cleanup and restoration in Burnt Store, FL from a Cape Coral base just down Burnt Store Road, close enough that the marina gate is a short drive north. Our team's 20 years of IICRC-certified smoke, soot and water experience back every job in Burnt Store Marina, and a Florida general contractor license carries each one through the rebuild.


A golf cart charger overheated in the rear cart garage of this 2003 golf-course home, scorching the drywall and pushing smoke into the office next door. Soot also reached the main living area and settled into the coffered ceiling, leaving a gray film on every recessed panel. Our crew rebuilt the garage wall and cleaned the office along with its private bath. The coffered ceiling got dry sponging panel by panel before any wet cleaning, and the owners were delighted to see the white trim come back crisp around the skylights.
Turnaround time: 7 days
Price: $8,500

Lint packed inside a long dryer vent caught fire in this 1990s villa near Egret Pointe, and the open floor plan let smoke climb straight into the vaulted great room. The owners were up north for the summer, so a neighbor spotted haze behind the triple sliders and called it in. Our technicians replaced the vent run with rigid metal duct, then cleaned soot from the ceilings, walls and lanai glass. A thermal fogger finished the job in the empty home, with photo updates sent to the owners after each visit.
Turnaround time: 5 days
Price: $5,900

A pan of oil flared on the cooktop of this 1995 Admirals Point block home, and the extinguisher that stopped it coated the quartz counters, GE Slate appliances and bamboo floors in yellow powder. Dry chemical residue turns corrosive in humid air, so our crew vacuumed it up within hours of arriving. The bamboo got a low-moisture cleaning that kept the planks flat. Before soot cleaning began, the crew covered the indoor atrium pond, and the owner was thrilled to hear the fountain running clean again a few days later.
Turnaround time: 4 days
Price: $5,800

A ceiling fan motor shorted on the enclosed back porch of this 1988 Admiralty Village condo, melting the fan housing and blackening the skylight frame overhead. Smoke slipped through the sliders into the furnished living room, where the cathedral ceiling trapped it near the peak. A licensed electrician replaced the fan box and wiring, and our crew rebuilt the porch ceiling panel. The sofa, bedding and window treatments came clean next, and both the owner and the association manager received the written scope and photos.
Turnaround time: 6 days
Price: $6,400
Emergency fire damage cleanup crews check in with gate staff using the owner’s work order.
Out-of-state owners usually add the crew to the visitor list by phone.
Fire damage restoration estimate paperwork goes straight to the carrier with room-by-room photos.
Insured jobs start without a deposit.
Condo fire damage restoration in Burnt Store Marina’s villages starts with a call to the association, because roofs, exterior walls and shared attics usually fall under the master policy.
Work inside the unit moves ahead on the owner’s HO-6 policy at the same time.
Gated communities like Burnt Store Marina screen contractors closely, and boards ask about these four credentials.
Office fire damage restoration starts with the files and electronics, since records drive everything else.
Wet paper records go to freeze-drying, and computers and printers go to shop cleaning before smoke residue corrodes their boards.
Credential | What it means on a Burnt Store job |
IICRC Certified Firm | Cleaning and drying follow IICRC methods, including the S500 water damage standard |
Florida DBPR Certified General Contractor | One company handles both the cleanup and the permitted rebuild |
Florida mold remediation license | Crews treat growth behind wet walls without bringing in a second contractor |
20 years in Lee County | Crews know the block, frame and tile-roof homes along Charlotte Harbor |
Burnt Store Marina holds 525 wet slips, and US Harbors lists it as the largest marina on Florida’s west coast. A fire aboard a docked boat sends oily fiberglass and fuel smoke toward the condos and homes that line the basins.
Trusted Cape Coral Fire Damage handles the shoreside side of those losses:
Golf carts share the streets of Burnt Store Marina, and many homes keep a cart and charger in the garage. Charger faults and worn battery cables show up again and again in the garage fires our crew cleans up.
Garage fire cleanup in these homes runs in three steps:
Hurricane Ian reached Burnt Store Marina on September 28, 2022, and InsuranceNewsNet reported that it tore apart entire docks and shoved concrete seawalls out of place in the north basin. Storms like Ian leave behind soaked wiring, portable generators and damaged roofs, and each one raises the fire risk in the weeks that follow.
Trusted Cape Coral Fire Damage now runs Burnt Store emergencies in the order that storm season taught:
Problem on arrival | First response |
Broken windows or sliders | Window board up after fire |
Burned or open roof | Emergency roof tarping after fire |
Standing firefighting water | Same-day water extraction after fire |
Many Burnt Store villas and condos sell or rent fully furnished, and the 2020 census found a 41.8% rental vacancy rate across the community. A fire in one of these units damages sofas, mattresses and linens that all belong to the owner.
The 2020 U.S. Census put Burnt Store Marina’s median age at 71.3, with 74.5% of residents aged 65 or older. Older households are more likely to use medical oxygen at home, and the National Fire Protection Association warns that home oxygen use raises fire risk, because oxygen-enriched air makes materials ignite more easily.
The Burnt Store restoration crew adjusts each job:
Burnt Store homes carry a mix of roof types, from tile on 2000s golf-course homes to metal on newer estates. Each one fails differently in a fire, and the repair has to match what’s up there so the finished roof never looks like a patchwork quilt.
Roof type | Common fire damage | Repair method |
Concrete or clay tile | Cracked tiles and scorched underlayment | Replace broken tiles and underlayment, then reset sound tiles |
Metal | Warped panels and burned fasteners | Replace affected panels in a matching profile and color |
Shingle | Melted and missing tabs | Tear off the burned section and reshingle |
Trusted Cape Coral Fire Damage handles house reconstruction after fire under its Florida general contractor license, with Lee County permits confirmed first.
Burnt Store Marina sits 20 miles northwest of Fort Myers and 13 miles south of Punta Gorda. Fox 4 reported that Lee County widened 4.5 miles of Burnt Store Road to four lanes between Pine Island Road and Van Buren Parkway. The same crews serve Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte to the north, along with North Fort Myers, Matlacha and Pine Island to the south.
Phones at the Cape Coral office ring through day and night for Burnt Store homeowners, condo boards and marina businesses. After a fire, a project manager walks the property with the owner and writes up the cleanup and rebuild scope on site.
