# Water Damage Cost Calculator Tempe AZ | Water Damage Tempe

> A free water damage cost calculator for Tempe, AZ, by water category.

URL: https://waterdamagetempe.com/tools/water-damage-cost-calculator/

This interactive calculator (JavaScript required) takes affected square footage, water
category, and how long water has been standing, and returns a real, sourced budget range.
RESEARCH.md documents industry-standard bands of $3-4/sq ft for Category 1 (clean) water
and $7-7.50/sq ft for Category 3 (black) water — the sourced basis for the formula.
Category 2 (gray water) has no standard per-sq-ft rate in any source checked, so it is not
priced here; the calculator routes gray-water jobs to a phone call instead. Choosing a
standing time of 24-48+ hours adds a sourced Phoenix-specific mold remediation range
($927-$2,745, Angi) to the estimate, since mold can begin colonizing wet material in that
window.

The Tempe-specific average across all water damage restoration jobs is $2,251-$2,313
(Homeyou) — a useful sanity check against the calculator's output.

This is a budgeting estimate, not a quote. A free on-site assessment gets you a real,
written number.