Last checked: October 28, 2026

Water well contractors and licensed home inspectors in Virginia

In Virginia, only a contractor firm with the WWP (water well/pump) specialty may build water wells. This page lists every firm on DPOR's current contractor lists that holds that specialty, plus every licensed home inspector. Filter by county or search by name. Certified labs are lookup-only for now.

How Virginia licenses well work

• Only WWP contractors build wells. Virginia's Board for Contractors defines "water well/pump contracting" (WWP) as installing a water well system, including geothermal wells: building the well to reach groundwater and installing the pump and tank, pipe and wire up to the connection to the plumbing and electrical systems. No other classification or specialty provides for building water wells, though plumbing, electrical and HVAC contractors may install pumps and tanks.¹
• People are certified too. The Board for Contractors certifies individual water well systems providers at journeyman and master levels, based on supervised experience and training.²³
• The source lists. DPOR publishes its license lists free as tab-delimited files, updated every 5 business days. They don't include phone numbers.⁴
• Home inspectors are licensed by DPOR's Board for Asbestos, Lead and Home Inspectors; the home inspector list is on the same regulant lists page.⁴ A home inspector license doesn't mean the inspector tests well water.

Check a license yourself

• Any contractor, provider or inspector: DPOR's License Lookup shows current status. Ask for the firm's contractor license number and check that it lists the WWP specialty before anyone drills or works on a well.¹
• Full lists: DPOR's Regulant Lists page (Board for Contractors: Class A, B and C contractors and 2719 Certified Water Well Systems Provider; Home Inspector 3380).⁴
• Labs: Virginia's Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services Find a Lab search lists labs certified under the Virginia Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program. It's a search tool, so we link it instead of copying it.

The list

Well contractors: every firm on DPOR's Class A, B and C contractor lists (updated October 27, 2026) whose specialties include WWP, with the contractor license number, class and expiration date. Expired licenses are left out. Home inspectors: every unexpired licensee on DPOR's Home Inspector list, by name (business name in brackets where listed); "NRS" means the new residential structure specialty. We don't publish the street addresses or emails on DPOR's lists.

DPOR's lists give a mailing address but no county. We assigned a county or independent city only when the address ZIP code's Census area lies at least 80% in one (U.S. Census Bureau 2020 ZIP code tabulation area to county file);⁵ otherwise the county shows as not listed, so search by town too. Out-of-state firms are grouped by state.

Missing or wrong? Email [email protected] with the official listing and we'll recheck it against the source.