Short answer: As of October 2026, the two highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Utica-Rome, NY metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are The Roofing Standard LLC (65.8), Dennis Padula & Sons Roofing & Sheet Metal (48.8). Each is certified by a manufacturer whose register we checked by hand, each rating has been tested against a source outside that register, and nobody bought a place on this page.
The Roofing Brief scored 2 certified roofing contractors serving the Utica metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top two individually to confirm its record. New York issues no roofing licence, no general contractor licence and no home improvement contractor licence. The Department of State’s Division of Licensing Services oversees 35 occupations and the Education Department’s Office of the Professions another 39, and no construction trade appears on either list. The City of Utica licenses electricians and plumbers and publishes active registers for both, and has no roofing equivalent. So the only checkable thing in this market is the permit, which Utica requires on all construction costing $1,000 or more. Our certified pool here is genuinely two firms, and we would rather tell you that than pad the page: one is a year old and the other has been trading since the 1970s.
Wind, terrain and the Utica housing stock
This is a wind and snow market, not a hail market. Across 2016 to 2025 the Utica counties logged 470 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports against 43 hail reports, only 25 of them at an inch or more and not one reaching two inches, with a decade maximum of 1.75 inches, plus 15 tornadoes. July is the peak month by a wide margin. The number that actually governs a roof here is snow, and it is both large and poorly documented. NOAA’s 1991 to 2020 normals give Utica Oneida County Airport 88.3 inches, but that figure carries a partial-record flag because the station’s record ends in January 2001. Trenton Falls in the same county gives 97.5 inches and Boonville 4 SSW, at 1,550 feet on the Tug Hill flank, gives 189.2 inches. The spread across one county is the point.
The ground snow load is no longer something you can read off a map, which is a recent and consequential change. The 2025 Building Code of New York State, at section 1608.2, provides that ground snow loads for determining design snow loads shall be determined in accordance with the reliability-targeted strength-based ground snow loads, which routes the value to the ASCE 7-22 geodatabase rather than a printed figure. Under the superseded 2020 code the value was mapped at Figure R301.2(6) and adopted locally, with a footnote requiring sites above 1,000 feet to have the load increased. We tried to obtain the numeric design ground snow load for Oneida County and could not: the ASCE tool is JavaScript-only and returned nothing to direct requests, and no Oneida County municipality’s completed table was reachable. Secondary lookups say 50 pounds per square foot. We are not publishing that, because we could not source it, and you should ask your contractor to state the figure they designed to and where they got it.
The code edition changed on 31 December 2025. From that date, regulated parties submitting building permit applications are required to comply with the 2025 Uniform Code, which incorporates the 2025 Residential Code of New York State. Section R905.1.2 of that code requires an ice barrier where there has been a history of ice forming along the eaves causing a backup of water, as designated in Table R301.2. Whether that clause bites is a local entry rather than a state one: the Department of State’s own technical bulletin TB-1009-RCNYS instructs that the authority having jurisdiction shall fill that column with yes where there is a history of local damage from the effects of ice damming. In a county whose snowfall ranges from 88 to 189 inches depending on elevation, that is a question worth asking your own building department rather than assuming.
The permit is the one real control and it is cheap enough not to skip. The city states that all construction undertaken in the City of Utica costing $1,000 or more requires a building permit, with no roofing-specific exemption published. The fee comes off the generic repairs, alterations and additions schedule: $150 for work valued at $1,000 to $10,000, then $7 for each additional $1,000. On the insurance side, General Business Law section 771-b, headed Responsibilities of roofing contractors, provides at subsection 2 that a roofing contractor shall not advertise or promise to pay or rebate all or any portion of any insurance deductible as an inducement, and gives a three-business-day right to cancel after the insurer notifies you that a claim is not covered.
The 2 best roofers in Utica, NY
Scored 2026-10-02. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Utica is 4.167, across a pool of 2 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Roofing Standard LLC | 65.8 | Certified | 5.0 (111) | 4.741 | 2024 | New York Mills, NY |
| 2 | Dennis Padula & Sons Roofing & Sheet Metal | 48.8 | Master Elite | 4.0 (25) | 4.111 | not published | Utica, NY |
1. The Roofing Standard LLC — TRB Score 65.8
The Roofing Standard LLC is based in New York Mills, NY, in business since 2024, led by David Zhushma, Owner, BBB accredited since 8 October 2025; A rating, and holds Certified standing on the GAF certification registry.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 12 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 29.6 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 15.0 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 9.2 | 10 |
| Total | 65.8 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Accredited since 8 October 2025 with an A rating, a business start date of 6 December 2024, and David Zhushma as owner, at 11 Mill St, New York Mills.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Roof replacement, roof repair, siding, windows, gutters.
Why it ranks here. The top score in the metro on a 5.0 across 111 reviews, with BBB accreditation and a named owner identified both by BBB and in its own customer reviews, operating from New York Mills immediately adjacent to Utica. It has a working website and states a service radius of 100 miles. In a market with no licence to check, a BBB-accredited firm with a named owner and a verifiable address is doing the available things.
Best fit for: A straightforward replacement, treated as one of at least three quotes rather than a default.
What we would want clarified. Read the dates before you weigh the rating. BBB records the business start as 6 December 2024 and accreditation only from 8 October 2025, and the manufacturer’s listing says in business since 2025, so this company is roughly a year old. A 5.0 across 111 reviews accumulated in that time is a lot of completed work for a first year, and we could not establish whether those reviews were accumulated under this entity or carried over from earlier trading, so we would not weigh the figure heavily. Its BBB rating of A is below the A+ most firms in this programme carry. We could not check its New York entity filing because the state’s business search was blocked throughout our research. It holds base-tier manufacturer certification, self-reported, and no county list is published behind the 100-mile radius claim. We publish this because a ranking that only prints the flattering findings is an advertisement, not an assessment.
Verify the certification yourself on the GAF registry listing. The number carried on that listing is (315) 989-5544, which is the registry’s contact line and is often a directory tracking number rather than the contractor’s own: take the number from the company’s own website and compare the two.
2. Dennis Padula & Sons Roofing & Sheet Metal — TRB Score 48.8
Dennis Padula & Sons Roofing & Sheet Metal is based in Utica, NY, led by Lynda Padula per BBB; the company site names Lynda, Joseph and Peter Padula, with Joe Padula listed publicly as president, Not accredited; Not Rated, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), GAF Master Elite, shown on the manufacturer’s own listing for this company. Certification by more than one manufacturer is uncommon and requires meeting each programme’s separate standards for insurance, training and track record.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 24 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 4.4 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 10.4 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 48.8 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Listed at 443 Deerwood Rd, Utica, under Home Improvement, not accredited and Not Rated, with a business start date of 1974 and Lynda Padula as owner.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Commercial roofing, residential roofing, industrial roofing, sheet metal, siding, gutters, wall panel systems, tear-offs.
Why it ranks here. The only firm in this metro with a long history and the only one holding Master Elite certification, which is confirmed on the manufacturer’s own listing rather than self-reported, unusually for this programme. It is family-run across two generations, continuing under Lynda, Joseph and Peter Padula after Dennis Padula’s death, and it is the only firm here with in-house sheet metal and wall panel capability, which on a snow-load market with ice at the eaves means valley metal, flashings and drip edge can be fabricated rather than bought in.
Best fit for: Sheet metal, flashing and commercial or industrial work, from the one firm here with decades of local history, if you resolve the complaint below to your satisfaction.
What we would want clarified. One public complaint deserves your attention and we are not going to bury it. Of the two reviews the manufacturer surfaces on this company’s profile, one is a detailed negative account, signed Lisa Colozzi-Pesesky, describing an October roof repair that produced a severe January leak, damage to a front room, repeated unanswered calls, a later visit at which a worker said the roof had been done incorrectly, and no follow-up by the following July. We could not establish whether it was ever resolved, and BBB records no complaints at all, so it never became a formal record and we make no finding about the underlying work. But a 4.0 rating across 25 reviews is the weakest combination in this metro, and an unresolved account of this kind is the thing to put to the company directly. Separately: it is not BBB accredited and is Not Rated; founding is disputed at 1974 per BBB against 1979 on its own site; two different Utica addresses appear across sources and we could not tell which is the operating office; and its claim that employees are OSHA certified is its own and we did not verify it. We publish this because a ranking that only prints the flattering findings is an advertisement, not an assessment.
Verify the certification yourself on the GAF registry listing. The number carried on that listing is (315) 733-1564, which is the registry’s contact line and is often a directory tracking number rather than the contractor’s own: take the number from the company’s own website and compare the two.
The 470 wind reports that shape a Utica roof
Aggregate hail counts tell you very little about a specific roof. These are the individual events: every severe-weather report logged by the National Weather Service across the 2 counties of the Utica-Rome, NY statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 43 hail reports, 470 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 15 tornadoes. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $5.9 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
The biggest hail to fall on Utica in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 June 2021 | 1.75 in | Starkville | Herkimer |
| 17 July 2017 | 1.75 in | Holland Patent | Oneida |
| 22 August 2017 | 1.75 in | Verona | Oneida |
| 2 June 2023 | 1.5 in | Mohawk | Herkimer |
| 12 August 2023 | 1.5 in | Westmoreland | Oneida |
| 4 August 2023 | 1.25 in | Stittville | Oneida |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 14 June 2021 near Starkville, measured at 1.75 inches. That is ping-pong-ball sized, enough to bruise asphalt shingles and shorten a roof’s life without necessarily looking dramatic from the ground.
Wind. The strongest thunderstorm gust logged in the metro was 87 knots, about 100 mph, near Gravesville on 15 May 2020. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 15 tornadoes touched down in these counties over the decade, the strongest rated EF2 near Rome on 16 July 2024.
What the National Weather Service wrote about it
The NWS logs a written account of each severe-weather episode. This is its description of the 15 May 2020 event near Gravesville, reproduced verbatim:
A National Weather Service storm survey team, along with Emergency Management, determined that a macroburst impacted the areas of Russia, Norway and Ohio in central Herkimer County. This macroburst resulted in numerous large hardwood trees uprooted or snapped about a third to halfway up along with power poles snapped with significant power outages. Areas hardest hit were along Grant Road and Fisher Road. There were also several trees downed at Pardeeville Road and Dan Davis Road in Ohio. A large tree went through a small house on Fisher Road. A secondary area of damage was in the Adirondack Campground where an un-anchored trailer flipped and was dragged several feet to its resting place….
That account is the design case for a roof here, and it comes from the agency that recorded it rather than by a contractor selling the repair.
When it happens. Severe weather reports cluster in July (165), June (115), August (107). The worst years on record were 2021 (78), 2023 (75), 2016 (69). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Utica, the months outside that window are when crews are least stretched and least likely to be triaging emergency callouts ahead of your job.
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, county-level detail files 2016 to 2025, filtered to the counties of this statistical area by The Roofing Brief. Damage figures are as reported to the NWS and undercount insured losses.
What to do with this. Hail is not the governing risk in Utica. Weight your decision toward wind rating, ventilation and flashing detail rather than paying extra for impact-rated shingles.
What to do in a market with no licence and almost no certified contractors
There are two honest problems with this page and we would rather name them than write around them. The first is that New York gives you nothing to check. There is no state roofing licence, no general contractor licence and no home improvement contractor registration, and we could locate no Oneida County, Herkimer County or City of Utica roofing licence requirement either. That last point is an absence of evidence rather than a verified negative: the county codes page returned a 404 and the Herkimer planning page returned nothing, so we cannot rule out a requirement we simply could not find. But Utica publishes active registers for licensed electricians and licensed plumbers and no roofing register, which is the clearest available indication that the trade is not licensed here.
The second problem is that the manufacturer-certified pool in this metro is three firms, one of which we have excluded below because we could not establish that its review record belongs to it. That leaves two. Two is a real answer about a market of this size rather than a failure of research, and it means the comparison you can make on this page is narrow: a company that started in December 2024, and a family firm that has been roofing Utica since the 1970s and carries a detailed unresolved complaint in public. Neither is a safe default and you should get quotes from firms outside this list as well.
So here is how to vet a Utica roofer with no licence to look up. Start with the permit, because it is the only mandatory independent step: the city requires one at $1,000 and the fee is $150 on a job between $1,000 and $10,000. A contractor who proposes to work without one, or to have you pull it, has removed the only inspection anybody will perform. Ask the building department whether your address is in a jurisdiction that has answered yes to the ice damming column in Table R301.2, because that determines whether the ice barrier is a code requirement or an upsell.
Then ask for the snow load figure in writing. The 2025 code routes the value to the ASCE geodatabase rather than a map, so a contractor working from an old printed figure may be designing to the wrong number, and sites above 1,000 feet require the load to be increased. On a reroof this matters less than on new construction, but it matters when the question is whether a second layer can go on at all, and in a county that records 189 inches at Boonville the answer is not automatically yes.
Finally, ask the two questions that substitute for a licence: proof of general liability and workers’ compensation, dated and naming you as certificate holder, and the address of three completed reroofs in your own town that you may drive past. In a market with no register, a verifiable address list is the closest thing to a credential, and a firm with a long local history should be able to produce one in a morning.
What exists and what does not, in the Utica market
| Item | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| New York state roofing licence | Does not exist; DOS regulates 35 occupations, none a construction trade | NYS Division of Licensing Services |
| New York state general or home improvement licence | Does not exist; NYSED lists 39 professions, none a construction trade | NYSED Office of the Professions |
| City of Utica roofing licence | No roofing register published; electricians and plumbers have one | City of Utica Codes Department |
| Oneida or Herkimer County requirement | None located; recorded as a gap, not a verified negative | Our own research |
| City of Utica permit threshold | All construction costing $1,000 or more | City of Utica |
| Permit fee | $150 for work valued $1,000 to $10,000, then $7 per additional $1,000 | City of Utica Building Department fees |
| Code edition in force | 2025 Uniform Code, including the 2025 RCNYS, from 31 December 2025 | NYS Department of State |
| Ice barrier | Required where the local authority has designated a history of ice damming in Table R301.2 | 2025 RCNYS R905.1.2; DOS TB-1009-RCNYS |
| Design ground snow load, Oneida County | Not published in numeric form; routed to the ASCE 7-22 geodatabase, which we could not query | 2025 BCNYS 1608.2 |
| Snowfall normal, Utica airport | 88.3 inches, flagged as a partial record ending January 2001 | NOAA NCEI 1991 to 2020 normals |
| Snowfall normal, Boonville 4 SSW, 1,550 feet | 189.2 inches | NOAA NCEI 1991 to 2020 normals |
| Deductible rebates | A roofing contractor shall not advertise or promise to pay or rebate any portion of an insurance deductible | NY General Business Law 771-b(2) |
| Median year built | Oneida County 1958, Herkimer County 1954 | ACS 2020 to 2024 five-year, B25035 |
Source: NYS Division of Licensing Services; NYSED Office of the Professions; City of Utica Codes Department and Building Department fee schedule; 2025 Building Code and Residential Code of New York State; NYS DOS Technical Bulletin TB-1009-RCNYS; NOAA NCEI 1991 to 2020 snowfall normals; New York General Business Law 771-b; NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database; US Census Bureau ACS table B25035.
Before you sign anything in Utica
There is no state roofing licence in NY. New York issues no statewide roofing licence and no statewide general contractor licence. Roofing is licensed locally, and whether a licence exists at all depends on which county or city the work happens in.
New York City requires a Home Improvement Contractor licence from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, involving a written exam, workers compensation and general liability certificates, a sales tax Certificate of Authority and proof of EPA certification. Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, and the City of Buffalo, run their own separate licensing bureaus.
That absence is the most important fact on this page. Where a state issues no credential, a manufacturer certification that can be revoked is the only quality signal a homeowner can actually check, which is why this ranking is built on certification rather than star ratings.
Check here: NYC DCWP Home Improvement Contractor licence. Confirm the contractor is licensed in the specific county where your home sits, not merely somewhere in the metro. A Westchester licence does not authorise work in Nassau.
Four checks to run before you sign anything, in any state.
- Verify certification at the source. Use the GAF verification tool rather than trusting a badge image on a company website.
- Get the certificate of insurance from the insurer, not the contractor, and confirm general liability and workers compensation are both active on the day work starts.
- Confirm who pulls the permit. If a contractor asks you to pull it as the homeowner, that moves liability onto you. Decline.
- Get warranty terms in writing before any deposit, and check the manufacturer warranty being promised actually requires the certification tier the contractor holds.
The shape of the Utica contractor market
2 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Utica-Rome, NY statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 136 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.167. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 287,932, a change of -1.48% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Utica rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Utica-Rome, NY pool was scored out of 100 on four published components: certification tier, a Bayesian adjusted rating, review depth and distance from the metro centre. In this metro that meant scoring 2 certified contractors, of whom 0 hold President’s Club standing and 1 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.167. The top two were then researched individually against Better Business Bureau records, state licence registers and manufacturer directories. Anything unflattering that research surfaced appears above alongside the rest, and no company bought its position.
Set aside in Utica. A contractor that would otherwise have scored into the top two was removed for the reason stated. The score is computed from public data, but where the research pass finds evidence undermining an input to that score, the score is set aside.
- Home Pro Roofing and Construction, which scored 26.1: Excluded because we could not establish that its rating belongs to it, and could establish almost nothing else either. It has no BBB profile: it does not appear in BBB’s residential roofing listing for Oneida, NY and no profile was found under the name. No principal is published; the site and its testimonials name only a first name, Glen. The site states 10 plus years of experience while the manufacturer’s listing says in business since 2021, and one page of the same site describes the business as a roofing contractor in Syracuse, New York. Most decisively, the Google place that the manufacturer’s profile links to resolves to HomePro First at 201 W Genesee St, Fayetteville, NY, a different business in a different town roughly 50 miles away, and both review excerpts displayed name HomePro First. So the 3.5 rating across 11 reviews cannot be attributed to this company with any confidence. We found no negative review text and no complaint record, so nothing here is a finding against the firm’s work. It is that there is no verifiable record to publish.
The full method, the weightings, what the GAF certification tiers actually mean, who is eligible to be ranked and what we do not claim are all set out on our roofer ranking methodology page. Last updated: October 2026. Scoring run: 2026-10-02. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
What Utica homeowners want to know
Who is the best roofer in Utica, NY?
The Roofing Standard LLC of New York Mills, NY scores highest in the Utica metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score, at 65.8 out of 100 as of October 2026. It holds Certified certification with a 5.0 rating across 111 reviews. Highest-scoring is not the same as best fit for your specific job, and the company behind it scores within 17.0 points.
How many certified roofing contractors serve Utica?
2 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Utica-Rome, NY statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Utica get?
The Utica-Rome, NY statistical area recorded 25 hail reports of 1 inch or larger and 0 of 2 inches or larger between 2016 and 2025 in the NOAA Storm Events Database. The largest hailstone reported measured 1.75 inches.
Did any contractor pay to appear on this list?
No. The Roofing Brief takes no placement fees, no lead fees and no affiliate commission from any roofing contractor. Ranking comes entirely from the published formula applied to public registry data, followed by an individual research pass on the top two.
What was the worst hailstorm in Utica in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Utica-Rome, NY statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 1.75 inches, reported near Starkville on 14 June 2021. That is ping-pong-ball sized, enough to bruise asphalt shingles and shorten a roof’s life without necessarily looking dramatic from the ground. Across the decade the metro recorded 43 hail reports. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $5.9 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Utica?
Severe-weather reports in the Utica-Rome, NY statistical area cluster in July, June, August, on the NOAA record for 2016 to 2025. Booking non-urgent roof work outside those months usually means shorter lead times, because local crews are not simultaneously triaging storm callouts.
Do roofers need a licence in NY?
New York issues no statewide roofing licence and no statewide general contractor licence. Roofing is licensed locally, and whether a licence exists at all depends on which county or city the work happens in. New York City requires a Home Improvement Contractor licence from the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, involving a written exam, workers compensation and general liability certificates, a sales tax Certificate of Authority and proof of EPA certification. Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, and the City of Buffalo, run their own separate licensing bureaus.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Utica?
Confirm the contractor is licensed in the specific county where your home sits, not merely somewhere in the metro. A Westchester licence does not authorise work in Nassau.
What to do in a market with no licence and almost no certified contractors?
There are two honest problems with this page and we would rather name them than write around them. The first is that New York gives you nothing to check. There is no state roofing licence, no general contractor licence and no home improvement contractor registration, and we could locate no Oneida County, Herkimer County or City of Utica roofing licence requirement either. That last point is an absence of evidence rather than a verified negative: the county codes page returned a 404 and the Herkimer planning page returned nothing, so we cannot rule out a requirement we simply could not find. But Utica publishes active registers for licensed electricians and licensed plumbers and no roofing register, which is the clearest available indication that the trade is not licensed here.
Is Utica a hard market to find a good roofer in?
New York issues no roofing licence, no general contractor licence and no home improvement contractor licence. The Department of State’s Division of Licensing Services oversees 35 occupations and the Education Department’s Office of the Professions another 39, and no construction trade appears on either list. The City of Utica licenses electricians and plumbers and publishes active registers for both, and has no roofing equivalent. So the only checkable thing in this market is the permit, which Utica requires on all construction costing $1,000 or more. Our certified pool here is genuinely two firms, and we would rather tell you that than pad the page: one is a year old and the other has been trading since the 1970s.
Is wind or hail the bigger risk to a roof in Utica?
Wind, by a wide margin. The Utica-Rome, NY statistical area logged 470 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports against 25 hail reports of an inch or more between 2016 and 2025. Wind damage shows up at the rake, ridge and edge rather than across the field of the roof, so the fastening schedule and edge detail matter more here than the impact rating of the shingle.
Why is Home Pro Roofing and Construction not on this list?
Excluded because we could not establish that its rating belongs to it, and could establish almost nothing else either. It has no BBB profile: it does not appear in BBB’s residential roofing listing for Oneida, NY and no profile was found under the name. No principal is published; the site and its testimonials name only a first name, Glen. The site states 10 plus years of experience while the manufacturer’s listing says in business since 2021, and one page of the same site describes the business as a roofing contractor in Syracuse, New York. Most decisively, the Google place that the manufacturer’s profile links to resolves to HomePro First at 201 W Genesee St, Fayetteville, NY, a different business in a different town roughly 50 miles away, and both review excerpts displayed name HomePro First. So the 3.5 rating across 11 reviews cannot be attributed to this company with any confidence. We found no negative review text and no complaint record, so nothing here is a finding against the firm’s work. It is that there is no verifiable record to publish..
Roofer rankings for other metros
The Roofing Brief scores certified roofing contractors in the 400 largest U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan areas on the same formula.
- Best roofers in Syracuse, NY, about 46 miles from Utica
- Best roofers in Binghamton, NY, about 77 miles from Utica
- Best roofers in Albany, NY, about 78 miles from Utica
- Best roofers in Poughkeepsie, NY, another NY metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Rochester, NY, another NY metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Norwich, CT, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in College Station, TX, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Burlington, VT, also scored, about 138 miles away
See the full index of all 400 metro roofer rankings, or read how to find and vet a roofing contractor anywhere in the country.
Cite this analysis
The Roofing Brief. “Best Roofers in Utica, NY: The Roofing Brief Contractor Score.” Published October 2026. Inputs: GAF certification registry; NOAA Storm Events Database 2016-2025; U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 population estimates; Better Business Bureau and independent review-platform records for each ranked contractor.