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Insurance Restoration & Catastrophe Response

When Disaster Hits, Make Us Your First Call

KneppKraft is a licensed contractor doing fire, water, flood, storm, and earthquake restoration, with Xactimate® estimating, emergency response, and disaster experience that runs from the 1994 Northridge earthquake to Hurricanes Katrina & Rita.

Since 1994Property-Loss Experience
Xactimate®Insurance-Approved Estimates
$76 MillionGulf Coast Damage Assessed
Loss to Full Restoration

We guide you from the loss through to a finished rebuild.

KneppKraft has worked the property-loss industry since the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and our teams have responded to disasters nationwide, from the Nisqually earthquake in Seattle to Hurricane Katrina & Rita relief in Louisiana, consulting on commercial losses. We document the damage the way an insurance claim needs it and use Xactimate® for accurate, insurance-approved estimates, which also means we can advocate for a fair, complete settlement, not a lowballed one.

For structural losses, our in-house structural and concrete repair capability means we can stabilize, repair, and rebuild without handing the hardest part to someone else.

We handle

  • Fire & smoke damage
  • Water & flood damage
  • Storm & wind damage
  • Earthquake & structural damage
  • Emergency board-up & service repairs
  • Full reconstruction
Four Decades of Disaster Response

The experience behind the estimate

1994

Northridge

Earthquake damage inspection & estimating, where our property-loss practice began.

2001

Nisqually

A KneppKraft team spent a year assessing multi-housing units and shopping malls around Renton after the Seattle quake.

‘05

Katrina & Rita

Commercial insurance consulting & hurricane relief across Louisiana.

Now

SoCal Wildfire

Rebuild support for fire-loss property owners across the LA region.

The Scale We Have Worked At

Catastrophe response, by the numbers

After Katrina and Rita our team lived on the Gulf Coast for close to two years, working commercial properties, municipalities, parishes, malls, hotels, schools, restaurants, apartment complexes, arenas and warehouses.

65 filesCompleted, Gulf Coast
$76,000,000+Damaged Real Estate Assessed
20+ person teamOn Site, Roughly Two Years
Six statesAK · WA · OR · CA · AZ · TX

The six-state licensing came out of the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, where the team spent a year assessing thousands of multi-housing units and shopping malls around Renton, Washington. The insurance restoration division dates to the 1994 Northridge earthquake. The full history →

Featured Loss

From boarded storefronts back to a trading plaza

Fire took a multi-tenant retail plaza in Burbank. We rebuilt it from the roof joists down and handed the suites back finished.

Fire-damaged storefronts boarded over with plywood, scorched signage above
Before · after the fire
The restored plaza frontage with new tile roof, stucco and tenant signage
After · re-tenanted

Read the full case study →

Emergency Response

Had a loss? We’ll secure it and start the claim.

Emergency mitigation, accurate Xactimate documentation, and a rebuild handled by one licensed contractor.

Call Now, (714) 794-2829