8,663 California pest-control licenses
California Department of Pesticide Regulation publishes California's pest-control license registry as open data — 25,105 entries, fetched here on 2026-09-18: licensing of pesticide applications in agriculture and around structures — qualified applicator licenses and certificates, pest control advisers, and pest-control businesses. California's structural pest control board licenses applicators through a search form, which is not a bulk file, so this page's California rows are the DPR files.. That is far too many rows to publish in one place, so this page carries an alphabetical slice: the first 400 entries per letter of the entry name, 8,663 in all, tabled in full on the letter pages below — each with its license number, license type, category, expiration date and (where published) the county of operation, exactly as the state publishes them.
Status — computed from the expiration date
California Department of Pesticide Regulation's file has no status column, so status is computed from the expiration date against the fetched-on date (2026-09-18): a license whose expiration date was still ahead counts as active. Counted over all 25,105 entries of the file — not from the slice. 25,105 of 25,105 were active on that date.
| Status (computed) | Licenses |
|---|---|
| active | 25,105 |
| Total | 25,105 |
License type — the full file
Counted across all 25,105 entries of the file. The type wording is California's own — the same trade carries different labels in different states, so read these against the state's own categories rather than a national template.
| License type (registry's wording) | Licenses |
|---|---|
| QAL | 9,450 |
| QAC | 5,996 |
| PCA | 3,536 |
| PCM | 2,438 |
| DDA | 792 |
| MGB | 680 |
| PCB | 641 |
| PDB | 518 |
| PDM | 314 |
| JPC | 219 |
| APC | 207 |
| PBM | 132 |
| PBB | 123 |
| VCT | 59 |
The slice, by letter of the entry name
Every letter page tables its slice in full (the first 400 entries of that letter in name order). People and businesses are bucketed together by the first letter of the name.
What the columns mean
License type is the registry's own wording, kept verbatim; category is the registry's certification or license category (the registry's own category codes). Status is computed from the expiration date — the registry publishes no status column, so a row reads "active" when its expiration date was still ahead on the fetched-on date (2026-09-18). Expiration dates are normalized to ISO format; nothing else is changed. The source file also publishes columns these pages do not render (mailing addresses); they are kept in the dataset behind this page. For a binding check of any single license, use California Department of Pesticide Regulation's official lookup service.