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Certified HVAC Contractors in Florida: market size and renewals

The DBPR register lists 15,178 certified HVAC contractors in Florida. The densest county is Dade County with 1,709 of them, 11% of the state total. 4,076 come up for renewal within 90 days.

15,178licensed certified HVAC contractors
4,076renew within 30 days
4,076renew within 6 months
25countys with licensees
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Where the competition is

Licence counts by county, densest first. Use it to see how contested a patch already is before you spend money marketing into it, or to find the countys where the register is thin.

CountyOn recordValid today Not valid
Dade County1,7091,558151
Broward County1,2741,150124
Palm Beach County966862104
Hillsborough County95886593
Lee County85178665
Pinellas County67159873
Orange County59454648
Duval County48443153
Polk County40436341
Pasco County40036733
Volusia County39834850
Brevard County38333746
Sarasota County34732126
Manatee County32329429
Seminole County31827444
St. Lucie County27224725
Lake County24722324
Collier County24422618
Marion County21819622
Osceola County20118120
Charlotte County19116427
St. Johns County17614729
Hernando County13712611
Clay County13612016
Alachua County13211220

Renewal pipeline

Licences with an expiry date inside each window, counted from the board file. A licence that has already lapsed or been suspended is excluded, so these are people who currently hold a valid licence and have a renewal coming.

4,076due inside 30 days
4,076due inside 90 days
4,076due inside 6 months

New certified HVAC contractors per year

How many certified HVAC contractors currently on the register were first issued in each year. Older years thin out as licences lapse and drop off the file, so read this as the surviving cohort, not as the number issued at the time.

YearCertified HVAC Contractors issued
2020454
2021622
2022877
2023922
2024987
20251,114
2026853

Counted from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation public licence file, reloaded August 18, 2026. Figures describe licences on record, not businesses: one company can hold several. Confirm anything that matters at DBPR.