Weather: Not For Swarms

Weather had a negative impact on termite swarms last year.

According to the 2025 PCT State of the Termite Control Market survey, 54 percent of PMPs characterized the 2024 termite swarm season in their market area as average and 48 percent cited weather as the primary reason for it being average.

“Termite swarms were average this year and that’s why our numbers are average this year,” said Bill Crowley, Crowleys Pest Services, which operates in New Jersey. “In the springtime, we didn’t have an especially wet year, which is what you like to see.”

In California, swarms were mediocre despite getting more rain after a decade of drought and hotter temperatures than normal. Trevor Jones, Admiral Pest Control, was anticipating drywood termites to swarm like crazy. Not quite. “They swarmed twice but just not to the level we expected,” he said.

Likewise, swarms were “meh” in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, said Alan Harlan, Team Pest USA. He offered two related insights as a result of this, saying: “Our post-construction definitely is not as healthy as our pre-construction” but “our damage claims are down.”

Even so, 43 percent said weather did not affect demand for termite control services. And 42 percent said the number of termite related service calls increased significantly or somewhat at their location compared to one year ago.