Short answer: As of October 2026, the one highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are Modern Day Roofing (98.4). Each holds a certification we verified on the manufacturer’s own register, every rating was corroborated elsewhere, and placement on this page is not for sale.
The Roofing Brief scored 1 certified roofing contractors serving the Blacksburg metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top one individually to confirm its record. In the New River Valley the roof risk is wind off the mountains, not hail: microbursts and short EF1 tornadoes, including two from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in 2021, and no hail of two inches in a decade. Virginia licenses roofers, but its building code exempts a typical house reroof here from permits, so nobody inspects the finished roof. Only one certified firm with five or more reviews appears in the directory for the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford metro, so one is ranked, and five licensed local roofers are listed for comparison.
What a Blacksburg roof is up against
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors licence for any contract over $1,000. The class caps the job: Class C for single contracts under $30,000, Class B from $30,000 to under $150,000, Class A at $150,000 or more. Roofing is covered by the ROC roofing specialty and also by the residential building and home improvement classifications, so a firm with any of those may reroof a house. Contracting without the right licence is a Class 1 misdemeanour with fines of up to $500 a day, and an unlicensed contractor generally cannot enforce its contract. The Contractor Transaction Recovery Fund pays up to $30,000 per transaction against a licensed contractor.
Virginia has passed a roofing consumer law that is not yet in force. From 1 January 2027 the Residential Property Owners Protection Act, Va. Code 59.1-617 to 59.1-620, bars a contractor from paying, waiving or rebating the deductible on an owner-occupied home, requires a bold notice in roofing contracts advising you to confirm coverage with your insurer, and gives a 10-day cancellation right on contracts signed within 180 days of a declared emergency. Until then no statute specific to storm contracts applies.
Permits turn on wind speed. The statewide building code exempts unlimited replacement of roof covering on a house where the nominal design wind speed is 100 mph or less. Montgomery County designs to 110 mph, which converts to 85 mph nominal, so a like-for-like house reroof needs no permit and gets no inspection; the code assigns 140 mph to mountain sites at 4,000 feet or more. The county’s design criteria also set a 30 psf ground snow load, and Blacksburg averages about 25 inches of snow a year.
Across 2016 to 2025 Montgomery, Pulaski, Giles and Floyd counties and Radford logged 213 thunderstorm wind reports, 47 hail reports with none of two inches, and five tornadoes, all EF1, with $1.7 million of recorded damage, about half of it from those tornadoes. The metro’s median home was built in 1982. It is a university rental market: 64.2 percent of homes in Blacksburg and 57.7 percent in Radford are rented.
The one certified roofer ranked in Blacksburg, VA
Scored 2026-10-06. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Blacksburg is 5.0, across a pool of 1 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Day Roofing | 98.4 | President’s Club | 5.0 (285) | 5.0 | not published | Christiansburg, VA |
1. Modern Day Roofing — TRB Score 98.4
Modern Day Roofing is based in Christiansburg, VA, led by Austin Hungate, founder and CEO, BBB accredited since 1 May 2023, A+ rating, no complaints in three years, and holds President’s Club standing on the GAF certification registry.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 35 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 40.0 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 15.0 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 8.4 | 10 |
| Total | 98.4 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Class B licence 2705182551 with the residential building specialty, which covers roofing, certified March 2022 and expiring March 2028, held in the founder’s name at the company’s Christiansburg address.. Virginia DPOR regulant list
- Modern Day Roofing, LLC accredited since 1 May 2023 with an A+ rating, business start November 2020, no complaints closed in three years.. BBB business profile
- Service area lists Christiansburg, Blacksburg, Radford, Pulaski, Dublin, Floyd and Pearisburg plus the Roanoke Valley.. Company website
What they actually do. Residential reroofing in asphalt shingle and metal, storm repair, gutters and skylights.
Why it ranks here. One of the highest scores in the programme: President’s Club certification and a perfect 5.0 across 285 reviews, from a residential roofer headquartered on College Street in Christiansburg whose service area covers every county in the metro.
Best fit for: Homeowners anywhere in the New River Valley who want a highly reviewed residential specialist.
What we would want clarified. Its Virginia licence is held in the founder’s own name rather than the company’s, and its Class B covers jobs up to $150,000. The business is young: BBB dates it to late 2020 and its site implies 2019. It also runs a Roanoke office. Certification tier and reviews are unverified. 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 (540) 553-6007, 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.
Other licensed roofers serving the New River Valley
Only one certified firm is ranked here. These five hold current Virginia contractor licences covering roofing, on the state’s register, with clean BBB records. They are not scored and we are not recommending them; check each licence class against the size of your job.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| Henderson Roofing (H R C Incorporated) | Class A licence 2705092189 with the roofing specialty, on Catawba Road in Blacksburg; Owens Corning Preferred; BBB accredited since 2014, founded 1994. |
| New River Valley Roofing & Sheet Metal Co., Inc. | Class C licence 2705096152 with home improvement specialties covering roofing, on Staples Street in Radford; Owens Corning Preferred; BBB accredited since 2018, trading since 1995. Class C limits it to jobs under $30,000. |
| Crockett Home Improvement, Inc. | Class A licence 2705035703 with residential and commercial building specialties, on Radford Street in Christiansburg; Owens Corning Preferred; BBB accredited since 1991, the longest accreditation we found in the valley. |
| JB Roofing, LLC | Class B licence 2705130770 with the roofing specialty, in Check, Floyd County; BBB A+, not accredited, trading since 1996. No website found. |
| Aikens Construction, LLC | Class B licence 2705136249 with the roofing specialty, in Dublin, Pulaski County; BBB A+, not accredited. Its licence expires 31 December 2026, so confirm the renewal. |
The 213 wind reports that shape a Blacksburg 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 5 counties of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 47 hail reports, 213 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 5 tornadoes. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $1.7 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
The biggest hail to fall on Blacksburg in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 May 2016 | 1.75 in | Interior | Giles |
| 24 September 2024 | 1.75 in | Mountain Lake | Giles |
| 27 March 2021 | 1.75 in | Willis | Floyd |
| 8 April 2020 | 1.5 in | Rich Creek | Giles |
| 27 March 2021 | 1.5 in | Floyd | Floyd |
| 9 April 2021 | 1.25 in | Pizarro | Floyd |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 2 May 2016 near Interior, 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 80 knots, about 92 mph, near White Gate on 9 August 2019. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 5 tornadoes touched down in these counties over the decade, the strongest rated EF1 near Cowan on 23 October 2017.
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 9 August 2019 event near White Gate, reproduced verbatim:
A microburst associated with a supercell thunderstorm downed numerous trees within southern Giles County. Several trees fell on vehicles and one fell on a house. Some roof and shingle damage was also observed in this area as well.
That is what the specification has to anticipate here, written up by the agency that recorded it rather than by a contractor selling the repair.
When it happens. Severe weather reports cluster in July (59), August (58), June (54). The worst years on record were 2021 (48), 2022 (44), 2019 (32). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Blacksburg, 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 Blacksburg. Weight your decision toward wind rating, ventilation and flashing detail rather than paying extra for impact-rated shingles.
Wind off the mountains, not hail
Tornadoes account for $823,000 of the metro’s $1.7 million of recorded hail, wind and tornado damage from 2016 to 2025, and all five were rated EF1. On 23 October 2017 one touched down west of Belspring Road in Pulaski County, crossed the New River along Depot Road into Montgomery County and lifted six minutes later near McCoy. NWS found a garage torn apart and its debris thrown into a two-storey home, and on Virginia Tech’s Kentland Farm the tornado, 300 yards wide near the river, snapped or knocked down trees likely in the hundreds.
On 31 August 2021 the remnants of Hurricane Ida produced two EF1 tornadoes in Montgomery County, one near Stanley Road just south of Interstate 81 and one on Price Mountain near Merrimac Road, with peak winds of 90 to 95 mph.
Straight-line wind is the routine threat. On 9 August 2019 a supercell produced estimated 80 knot winds at Alum Springs and at White Gate, where NWS recorded a tree on a house and roof and shingle damage. On 8 April 2020 the Mountain Lake Biological Station measured an 84 mph gust, the strongest measured in the metro in the decade. In May 2022 storm winds near Basham blew a roof off, and in April 2024 a 78 knot microburst on Mt. Tabor Road collapsed a barn.
Hail, by contrast, is frequent but small: 31 reports of an inch or more in ten years, none of two inches, and a largest stone of 1.75 inches.
That matters because no inspector follows a reroof here. With Montgomery County’s design wind speed below the code’s threshold, a house reroof needs no permit, so nobody checks the nailing pattern, the starter strips at the eaves or the ridge after the job. In a valley where wind is the threat, ask the roofer for the shingle’s wind rating, the nailing schedule and photographs of the deck and edges before they are covered.
New River Valley wind and the rules on a reroof
| Item | Figure or rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Tornadoes, 2016 to 2025 | 5, all EF1 | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Tornado share of recorded damage | $823,000 of $1.72 million | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Strongest measured gust | 84 mph, Mountain Lake, 8 April 2020 | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Ida remnants, 31 August 2021 | Two EF1 tornadoes in Montgomery County | NWS Blacksburg via NOAA NCEI |
| Largest hail | 1.75 inches; none of 2 inches | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Montgomery County design wind speed | 110 mph ultimate, 85 mph nominal | Montgomery County; Va. Residential Code Table R301.2.1.3 |
| House reroof permit | Not required where nominal wind is 100 mph or less | 13VAC5-63-80 |
| Licence classes | C under $30,000; B to $150,000; A $150,000 or more | Va. Code 54.1-1100 |
| Deductible rebate ban | From 1 January 2027 | Va. Code 59.1-618 |
| Renter share, Blacksburg | 64.2 percent | ACS 2020 to 2024, B25003 |
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database and NWS Blacksburg surveys; NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals; Code of Virginia 54.1-1100, 54.1-1115, 54.1-1123, 58.1-3715 and 59.1-617 to 59.1-620; 18VAC50-22; Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code 13VAC5-63-80; Montgomery County structural design criteria; Virginia DPOR regulant lists; US Census Bureau ACS 2020 to 2024.
What to verify before a Blacksburg contractor starts
Licensing is required in VA. Virginia requires a licence from the Board for Contractors, under the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, for any contract over $1,000 to repair or improve a building, roofing included. Roofing is covered by the ROC roofing specialty, and also by the residential and commercial building classifications and the home improvement specialties, so a firm holding any of those may lawfully reroof a house.
Virginia issues three classes by project value under Va. Code 54.1-1100. Class C covers single projects over $1,000 and under $30,000 (and under $250,000 of work a year), Class B covers $30,000 up to $150,000 (or $250,000 to $1 million a year), and Class A covers $150,000 or more (or $1 million a year), with qualifying-individual experience of one, three and five years respectively. Every licensee completes a board-approved pre-licence business course, six hours long since 1 September 2025. From 1 January 2027 the Residential Property Owners Protection Act (Va. Code 59.1-617 to 59.1-620) bars a contractor from paying, waiving or rebating an insurance deductible on an owner-occupied home and gives a 10-day cancellation right on roofing contracts signed within 180 days of a declared state of emergency.
Check here: Virginia DPOR licence lookup. The class caps the contract value. A Class C licensee cannot legally take a project above $30,000, so confirm the class matches the size of your job before signing.
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.
How many certified roofers Blacksburg actually has
1 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA statistical area, of which 1 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 285 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 5.0. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 182,041, a change of 0.11% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Blacksburg rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA 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 1 certified contractor, of whom 1 hold President’s Club standing and 0 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 5.0. The top one were then researched individually against Better Business Bureau records, state licence registers and manufacturer directories. The findings are printed above whether they flatter the contractor or not, and nobody paid to appear.
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: 2026-10-06. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
Blacksburg roofing questions, answered
Who is the best roofer in Blacksburg, VA?
How many certified roofing contractors serve Blacksburg?
1 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA statistical area as of October 2026, of which 1 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Blacksburg get?
The Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA statistical area recorded 31 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 one.
What was the worst hailstorm in Blacksburg in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 1.75 inches, reported near Interior on 2 May 2016. 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 47 hail reports. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $1.7 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Blacksburg?
Severe-weather reports in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA statistical area cluster in July, August, June, on the NOAA record for 2016 to 2025. If the work can wait, booking outside that window usually buys you shorter lead times and more of the contractor’s attention.
Do roofers need a licence in VA?
Virginia requires a licence from the Board for Contractors, under the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation, for any contract over $1,000 to repair or improve a building, roofing included. Roofing is covered by the ROC roofing specialty, and also by the residential and commercial building classifications and the home improvement specialties, so a firm holding any of those may lawfully reroof a house. Virginia issues three classes by project value under Va. Code 54.1-1100. Class C covers single projects over $1,000 and under $30,000 (and under $250,000 of work a year), Class B covers $30,000 up to $150,000 (or $250,000 to $1 million a year), and Class A covers $150,000 or more (or $1 million a year), with qualifying-individual experience of one, three and five years respectively. Every licensee completes a board-approved pre-licence business course, six hours long since 1 September 2025. From 1 January 2027 the Residential Property Owners Protection Act (Va. Code 59.1-617 to 59.1-620) bars a contractor from paying, waiving or rebating an insurance deductible on an owner-occupied home and gives a 10-day cancellation right on roofing contracts signed within 180 days of a declared state of emergency.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Blacksburg?
The class caps the contract value. A Class C licensee cannot legally take a project above $30,000, so confirm the class matches the size of your job before signing.
Wind off the mountains, not hail?
Tornadoes account for $823,000 of the metro’s $1.7 million of recorded hail, wind and tornado damage from 2016 to 2025, and all five were rated EF1. On 23 October 2017 one touched down west of Belspring Road in Pulaski County, crossed the New River along Depot Road into Montgomery County and lifted six minutes later near McCoy. NWS found a garage torn apart and its debris thrown into a two-storey home, and on Virginia Tech’s Kentland Farm the tornado, 300 yards wide near the river, snapped or knocked down trees likely in the hundreds.
Is Blacksburg a hard market to find a good roofer in?
In the New River Valley the roof risk is wind off the mountains, not hail: microbursts and short EF1 tornadoes, including two from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in 2021, and no hail of two inches in a decade. Virginia licenses roofers, but its building code exempts a typical house reroof here from permits, so nobody inspects the finished roof. Only one certified firm with five or more reviews appears in the directory for the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford metro, so one is ranked, and five licensed local roofers are listed for comparison.
Is wind or hail the bigger risk to a roof in Blacksburg?
Wind, by a wide margin. The Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA statistical area logged 213 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports against 31 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.
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 Roanoke, VA, about 26 miles from Blacksburg
- Best roofers in Lynchburg, VA, about 69 miles from Blacksburg
- Best roofers in Winston-Salem, NC, about 79 miles from Blacksburg
- Best roofers in Charlottesville, VA, another VA metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Richmond, VA, another VA metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Iowa City, IA, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in El Centro, CA, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Charleston, WV, also scored, about 101 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 Blacksburg, VA: 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.