Pest control in El Paso
Code Enforcement runs El Paso's Vector Control Program, which covers the water the city controls: crews trap and sample mosquitoes to test them for disease, treat and monitor canals, ditches and reservoirs, deal with stagnant water and fog public rights-of-way. Reach it through City Hall at 300 N. Campbell, (915) 212-0000, or by calling 3-1-1. Wildlife in a yard falls under a state rule. DSHS calls rabies in Texas "an ongoing state health emergency," and the quarantine rules in 25 TAC chapter 169 forbid hauling any fox, skunk, coyote or raccoon that's still alive, a Class C misdemeanor.
A short list of people on official duty is exempt, including pest management professionals with a Texas Department of Agriculture license, and any animal they move goes back out within ten miles of its capture point and inside its home county. Don't handle any wild animal, sick or healthy in appearance, the agency adds. The virus passes in saliva, usually by a bite, not by a skunk's spray, and a bite should be washed with soap and water before you seek medical care.
Any trapping company should write down two things on the work order before it sets a trap: its TDA license number and where it plans to let the animal go.
What pest control costs near El Paso
Because no one has sent us a quote from El Paso, there's no price for the city itself. The Texas page lists the estimates with what pest control workers are paid ($19.90 an hour in the BLS wage data, which is pay, not price) and the state license fees. How we estimate costs.
Pest control jobs in El Paso
Sources for El Paso
- Compliance Areas, El Paso Code Enforcement Read Oct 23, 2026.
- DSHS: Laws, Transport of rabies vector species Read Oct 23, 2026.
- DSHS: Rabies Read Oct 23, 2026.