Body Shops in Hernando County, Florida: 207 Licensed, 3 Expired (2026)
Hernando County has 207 state-licensed motor vehicle repair shops (22 collision/body classified) and 3 strictly expired licenses, from a complete nightly-verified pull of the FDACS register.
207 of Florida's 22645 active FDACS licences, 0.9 percent, are in Hernando County. Among the 66 Florida counties on that register, Hernando County ranks 25th.
Hernando County's figures below are computed from the State of Florida's FDACS motor vehicle repair register, our complete pull covering all 67 counties, including the large ones the state's own search tool caps, re-verified nightly and read on 2026-08-23.
Hernando County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active licensed repair shops | 207 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 22 |
| Licenses issued in the last 12 months | 22 |
| Licenses due to expire within 6 months | 58 |
| Strictly expired licenses held right now | 3 |
The busiest cities for licensed repair work in Hernando County: Brooksville (95), Spring Hill (59), Weeki Wachee (12), Hudson (7), Tampa (6).
Florida requires a repair shop to hold a state licence or registration: the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issues it under Fla. Stat. § 559.904(1), and it is not collision-specific: the same credential covers general repair. That is the state credential behind the Hernando County numbers above; the register is the fourteen states that license body shops.
Before you hand over the keys
An expired FDACS license can mean lapsed insurance and bonding requirements, and Hernando County currently has 3 shops holding one. Checking takes a minute: search the shop's name or license number in the state's own FDACS license lookup, or read our step-by-step guide to verifying a Florida body shop license.
Find a verified shop in Hernando County
Every licensed Hernando County shop appears in our Florida directory with its public record attached: license status, certifications where they exist, and the verification method behind every claim. The registry re-checks the Hernando County records against state and federal sources nightly; here's how the data is built.
Statewide context and every other county: see Florida body shops by county.
How Hernando County compares with the rest of Florida
Directly above Hernando County on the Florida ranking by active licence count is Okaloosa County with 227 active licences, and directly below it is Alachua County with 205. Collision or body-shop classification covers 10.6 percent of Hernando County's active shops against 10.7 percent statewide, and strictly expired licences are 1.4 percent of its active-plus-expired FDACS records against 5.4 percent statewide. Brooksville carries 95 of the county's 207 active licences, 45.9 percent, and the register names 25 cities in Hernando County. Of those 207 active licences, 58 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 28.0 percent against 24.5 percent statewide, and 22 were issued in the previous twelve months, 10.6 percent against 9.9 percent statewide.
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