Selmer, McNairy County
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Selmer, Tennessee
Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration at a Selmer address, in a county where the record here still has March 31, 2023 on it.
Call (731) 600-1238 Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in West Tennessee
- Service
- Fire damage
- Held at
- ZIP code 38375
- County
- McNairy
The sub-pages carry the technical detail, and they are written regionally because the sequence of the work does not shift between towns.
Pickwick Electric Cooperative is headquartered in this town and serves the entire county — about 21,291 meters over nearly 2,495 miles of line, reaching into Chester, Hardeman and Hardin as well. That is one of very few electric assignments in West Tennessee that can be stated for a whole county without checking an address, which removes a step from the front of every fire job here. Natural gas is the utility division's, so the two fuel questions go to two local offices, both in the same town as the fire.
On the night of 2 and 3 April 2025 an EF-3 with a hundred and sixty mile-an-hour winds ran 29.15 miles through this town on a path up to six hundred and fifty yards wide, killing five people and injuring fourteen. Two years earlier, on 31 March 2023, another EF-3 passed nearby on a far longer track. Storm rebuilds leave a specific signature in a housing stock: new roof decking, new service entrances and new interior finish, installed quickly and often by different trades than the ones who built the house.
Coverage was bought code by code and every one of them came in: ZIP code 38375. the Town of Selmer building inspector on North Second Street decides what is permitted and inspected here; septic and electrical still come from the state.
What decides this job at this address
- Fire damage purchased at
- 38375
- Service disconnect
- Pickwick Electric Cooperative
- Landmarks people give on the phone
- the McNairy County Courthouse, Big Hill Pond State Park to the south and the Purdy site to the north
- Home Improvement license
- Not adopted in McNairy County; state license from $25,000
- Nearest named water
- the upper Hatchie River and Cypress Creek
- Routes through the town
- Highway 64, Highway 45 and State Route 15
- Road distance
- 45 miles from Jackson
- Permit issued by
- the Town of Selmer building inspector on North Second Street
The rebuild route is the town's own inspector, and that changes the order of a fire job compared with almost everywhere else in these three counties. The scope is fixed against what that office will permit before demolition rather than after, and the electrical and gas work is scheduled around inspection dates. In the newer reconstruction the wiring and the appliances are recent, so a fire in one of those houses raises different questions than a fire in the older core. Establishing which of the two a building is takes minutes and saves a day.
What the building stock here does
The oldest fabric here is late-Victorian rather than antebellum, because the seat moved to this town in 1890 on the strength of a railroad. Buildings of that period have deep floor voids, boxed stairs and chimney chases that carry smoke well beyond the fire. Where recent reconstruction sits over that structure the two behave as separate buildings under heat, and the joint between them is where residue collects. Contents cleaning tends to dominate in the newer houses and structural cleaning in the older ones, and most streets here have both.
Ductwork is opened and inspected before any decision to clean it, because a system that never ran during the fire usually does not need the work.
Fire damage work by type
Each link goes to a region-level page. Rewriting them under the name Selmer would produce the same words with a different heading on top.
Also at this address
- Water damage in SelmerThe Hatchie starts in this county, which is first on the state's list of designated Hatchie scenic-river counties, so the river here is a headwater stream rather than the wide swamp river it becomes downstream.
- Everything covered in SelmerThe town page: what is held here, the utilities, the permit office and what is on the record.
Before you call
If an adjuster has already assigned a claim number, bring it to the first call, but do not wait on one before ringing. Mitigation is expected to start before the paperwork catches up.
We will not quote a total for a fire loss from a phone description. What can be quoted from a phone call is the board-up and the tarp, and those go on their own line.