Metro fact page
HVAC contractors in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
The Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL metro area has 76 HVAC contractors, or 2.49 per 10,000 residents.
What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. Florida publishes a business-level licence source for HVAC, and the Florida page lists which classes count.
The facts
- HVAC contractors in this metro
- 76
- Per 10,000 residents
- 2.49 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 5
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share, FL portion of this metro
- 10.5%Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. Florida issues both individual and qualified-business records, and qualified-business rows carry no trade code of their own. Only 12.4% of them resolve to a trade through the qualifying agent, so the Florida share is built in practice on individual certified licensees.
- Active licenses with no public listing
- 72Verify any single record at the board: DBPR licensee search.
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 570 employed, $48,810 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.47. SOC 49-9021 pools heating and air conditioning work with commercial refrigeration, so this employment figure and this wage cover both together.
- Independent, franchise, corporate
- 73 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 304,818, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 49-9021.
Row definitions: methodology page.
What these numbers say about HVAC in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin
By record count, HVAC is the third largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, behind landscaping and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin.
Per resident, Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin sits close to the Florida rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.
The independent share of Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's HVAC records is close to the Florida figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
The share of Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's HVAC records linking to an active state licence is close to the Florida figure for the same trade.
Almost every Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin HVAC record sits inside Florida, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin has a count of HVAC licences issued in the last twelve months but no observable lapse count, so the issued figure is published alone rather than turned into a churn rate it cannot support.
Some active Florida licences covering HVAC in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin have no matching record in open place data, deduplicated on the licence, and none of those licences appear in the list below.
The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 570 workers across Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, and this site publishes 76 HVAC records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.
No Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin HVAC record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.
Part of Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin's HVAC records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.
More HVAC records first appeared in Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.
No city inside Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin differs from the metro enough on HVAC to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.
Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin is 9th of 16 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for rather than every metro area in Florida.
Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin are Anchorage above it and Cincinnati below it.
HVAC contractors, A to Z
76 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A Plus Service Heating & Air ConditioningDestin, FLListed in open place data
- Ace Pierce A/C and ApplianceFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Adelphos General ContractorsSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Adkins Air Conditioning & HeatingSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Affordable AirSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Affordable Air ServiceSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Air Conditioning & HeatingSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Air Conditioning & Heating SolutionsFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Air SolutionsCrestview, FLListed in open place data
- Allen Roberts AC & RefrigerationFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- American Air SystemsDefuniak Springs, FLState license on record
- Angel AirSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Another Mechanical CompanyCrestview, FLListed in open place data
- Atomic Air Cooling ServicesFreeport, FLState license on record
- Bayside Air Conditioning & HeatingDestin, FLState license on record
- bellandeandsons electricFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Branscum Construction SouthFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Brown's Plumbing & HeatingSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Burgess A/C Sales & ServiceCrestview, FLListed in open place data
- Cerra Air ConditioningShalimar, FLListed in open place data
- Chosen Heating & AirFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Climatix, Inc.Laurel Hill, FLListed in open place data
- Coastal Cooling & HeatingFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Comfort Matters Heating and Air LLCDestin, FLListed in open place data
- Commercial Service SolutionsFort Walton Beach, FLState license on record
- Corbett HVAC ServicesCrestview, FLState license on record
- Covenant AirNiceville, FLListed in open place data
- Crestview Electric Co.Crestview, FLListed in open place data
- D & D Air Conditioning Heating & Electrical ServicesDestin, FLListed in open place data
- Destin Air Conditioning & RefrigerationDestin, FLListed in open place data
- Double Click Air ConditioningFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Dryer Duck Vent CleaningFreeport, FLListed in open place data
- Duncan's Marine Air ConditioningFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Engle Services LLCFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Evening Aire Mechanical ServicesFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Executive Air Cooling, Heating and RefrigerationFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Express Air Conditioning & HeatingFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Fife RefrigerationFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Four Seasons Air ConditioningFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Gator MechanicalCrestview, FLListed in open place data
- Green AirFreeport, FLListed in open place data
- Hamilton's Cooling & Heating & GasCrestview, FLListed in open place data
- Holt Phillips ServicesNiceville, FLListed in open place data
- Jefco Air ConditioningSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- JefCo Air Conditioning & RefrigerationSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Johnstone SupplyFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Jordan Air EnterprisesNiceville, FLListed in open place data
- Key A/CDefuniak Springs, FLListed in open place data
- Lovering's Automobile Air ConditioningNiceville, FLListed in open place data
- Master Builders of DestinDestin, FLListed in open place data
- Mingledorff'sFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Modern Air SolutionsFreeport, FLListed in open place data
- Murfee's Air ConditioningDefuniak Springs, FLState license on record
- Noland CompanyFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- One Source ContractingCrestview, FLListed in open place data
- Otto Air Conditioning & HeatingCrestview, FLListed in open place data
- Panhandle Heating and Air ConditioningFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Parker AC Santa RosaSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- PeadenFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Peaden MechanicalFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Pro Tech Mechanical ServicesDestin, FLState license on record
- S & V Air ConditioningFreeport, FLListed in open place data
- Service FirstFort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Southern Comfort Climate ControlFort Walton Beach, FLState license on record
- Superior MechanicalDefuniak Springs, FLListed in open place data
- Support Systems AssociatesMary Esther, FLListed in open place data
- T & C Xtreme AirHolt, FLListed in open place data
- Taylor's Air Conditioning & ElectricalDefuniak Springs, FLListed in open place data
- The Turn Key GroupMary Esther, FLListed in open place data
- TTA Affordable AirSanta Rosa Beach, FLListed in open place data
- We Care Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & ElectricalCrestview, FLListed in open place data
- We Care Plumbing, Heating & AirNiceville, FLListed in open place data
- William S Loftis St Reg EleclNiceville, FLListed in open place data
- Winnelson Co.Fort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Winnelson Co.Fort Walton Beach, FLListed in open place data
- Woodlawn Mechanical ContractorsDefuniak Springs, FLListed in open place data