Goodyear is a Southwest Valley city in Maricopa County at about 970 feet, and most of it was built after 2000 on former cotton fields north of I-10 and on desert edge land south of the Gila River. Palm Valley, PebbleCreek, Canyon Trails and the subdivisions along Estrella Parkway and the Loop 303 are stucco tract homes with block walls, granite yards and pools on deep former farmland soil that holds moisture, which keeps desert subterranean termite colonies large and close to the slab. Termite mud tubes, builder pretreatment questions and drip lines run against the foundation are the daily work there.
Estrella, built into the foothills of the Estrella Mountains south of the river, is a different kind of lot: graded desert with boulders, washes and native vegetation on the lot line, and that brings bark scorpions, pack rats, kissing bugs, black widows and Africanized bee swarms. PebbleCreek and the 55 and over sections add snowbird homes empty from May through October. The old Goodyear core near Litchfield Road and the historic Goodyear neighborhood has 1940s to 1970s homes with mature trees where roof rats and sewer roaches through drains show up in monsoon season.
Goodyear also has one of the largest warehouse and distribution corridors in the state along I-10 and the Loop 303, plus Goodyear Ballpark and the Bullard Avenue retail area, all under Maricopa County Environmental Services inspection rules. Summer heat above 110 degrees and the July monsoon drive the residential calls, led by termites, scorpions in Estrella, ants and crickets from the surrounding fields.
Around Goodyear
We regularly work near:
- 📍Goodyear Ballpark
- 📍Estrella Mountain Regional Park
- 📍Goodyear Civic Square
- 📍PebbleCreek
- 📍Estrella Lakes
- 📍Phoenix Goodyear Airport
Pest Control in Goodyear — Local Notes
- •Deep former cotton field soil under Palm Valley, PebbleCreek and Canyon Trails holds moisture and keeps subterranean termite colonies close to the slab, so termite work is the most common job in the flat part of the city.
- •Estrella lots against the mountains and washes get the full bark scorpion program plus pack rat nest removal and kissing bug treatment.
- •Fields and open land still surrounding many subdivisions send field mice, crickets and grasshoppers into new neighborhoods each fall and after harvest.
- •Warehouses along I-10 and the Loop 303 run perimeter bait station layouts and dock door rodent exclusion with a service log for Maricopa County Environmental Services inspections.
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