RMO serves Metro Detroit today. These pages describe where we plan to grow.
Middle East
Dearborn has flooded hard, again and again: more than 22,000 FEMA aid registrations from Dearborn addresses across the 2014, 2021 and 2023 disasters. When two buildings flooded here, seven hours apart, we sent 30 people and saved both.
In a recent flood, two buildings in Dearborn took on water, the second about seven hours after the first. With the size of our team, we could send 30 people and work both at once.
Three other mitigation companies were working the same flood. We were the first to arrive, and both buildings were saved.
We also service a lot of houses in Dearborn, as in Dearborn Heights and Livonia: basements that back up in a storm, pipes that burst in a cold snap, water from a failed appliance. More than four in five Dearborn homes were built before 1980.
Our office in Southfield is 10.1 miles from the middle of Dearborn: about 10.6 miles by road, or 18 minutes when traffic is light. Across Wayne County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night, and when you call we give you a real arrival time.
From Southfield, crews take the Southfield Freeway (M-39) straight into Dearborn, or Telegraph Road; Ford Road and I-94 cross the city.
A person answers 248-845-0000, day or night, and asks what happened and where.
Trucks leave with the pumps, extractors, air movers and dehumidifiers the job needs, 10.6 miles from our office.
The crew stops the water, makes the property safe and starts the drying the same visit.
84%before 1980
Median year built: 1952, across 39,394 homes and apartments. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, table B25034.
Registrations from Dearborn mailing addresses. A registration is a household asking for help, not proof of damage, and mailing addresses don’t follow city limits exactly. FEMA, OpenFEMA Housing Assistance data, pulled 2026-10-12.
Most of Dearborn's 456 miles of sewer were built before 1940 as combined sewers, and about 40% of the city is still combined. The system was designed for 2.8 to 3.3 inches of rain in a day.
Source: City of DearbornAbout 6.8 inches fell in roughly seven hours on June 25 and 26, 2021, and sewage backed up into about two-thirds of Dearborn's homes. With the July storms that followed, more than 20,000 homes were hit that summer.
Source: City of DearbornThe Upper, Middle and Lower branches of the Rouge River meet in Dearborn, the last community downstream in the watershed. In August 2023 the Lower Rouge at Dearborn crested at 13.13 feet, above major flood stage.
Source: NOAA river gaugeDearborn reports more than $25 million spent on flood work, and in July 2026 FEMA approved $8.1 million for new storm sewers and flap gates in east Dearborn.
Source: FEMADearborn is Ford's home: the new world headquarters, the River Rouge Complex and the plants around them, with Fairlane Town Center, the University of Michigan-Dearborn, Henry Ford College and the Warren Avenue business district.
A village in 1893 and a city in 1927; today's Dearborn took shape in 1928. About 107,423 people live in Dearborn (Census, 2020–2024 estimate). If a public sewer backed up into your building, Michigan law asks you to give written notice to the agency that runs the sewer (the city, township or county) within 45 days of finding the damage.
Dearborn neighborhoods
| ZIP code | Median home built | FEMA 2014 | FEMA 2021 | FEMA 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48120 | 1966 | 174 | 457 | 187 |
| 48124 | 1953 | 1,630 | 702 | 976 |
| 48126 | 1950 | 5,780 | 8,208 | 3,579 |
| 48128 | 1949 | 161 | 341 | 578 |
ZIP codes from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP-to-place relationship file; housing age from ACS 2020–2024; registrations from OpenFEMA.
Dearborn is about 18 minutes from our Southfield office in light traffic (10.6 miles by road). Across Wayne County a crew is on site in about 60 minutes, day or night. Call 248-845-0000 and we'll give you a real arrival time.
Every part of Dearborn, including 48120, 48124, 48126 and 48128. If you're near the edge of Dearborn, call and we'll confirm right away.
Report the backup to the city right away (311, or 313-943-2150 on weekdays; police dispatch after hours), then file a written claim within 45 days of finding it, as Michigan law requires. We photograph and document the damage from the first visit, which helps with both the city claim and your insurer.
Leave your name and number and a coordinator will call you back. If water is still coming in, or there’s smoke or sewage, call now.
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