Just one flea lays 40+ eggs a day in your pets' environment (house and/or yard) before you realize there is just one flea, 840 eggs will hatch from three fleas laying for seven days.

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Eggs hatch and the juvenile flea jumps quickly onto a pet for a blood meal. In that one bite, the flea is exposed to the flea control product that your pet has been treated with and will die within 30 minutes.

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Chemical home and yard treatment simply can't affect all the eggs dropped in the environment during an infestation (think of grains of sand). 

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Eggs (with or without medications and chemicals) will still hatch in the house and yard over the next few months. Hatching requires time, vibration, and humidity, so know an infestation is not a quick resolution process. 

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All indoor and outdoor pets must be kept on a quality flea product for at least three-four months while remaining eggs hatch, then you will see significant relief from the egg-hatching infestation.

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Your pets may need to remain on flea treatment for the foreseeable future (it's Texas y'all). If a home or yard is left unprotected, it only takes one new flea (brought in by a human or animal, or jumped from an abutting environment) to produce eggs for infestation and the process starts over again.