Short answer: As of October 2026, the one highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Pueblo, CO metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are Drury Brothers Roofing (57.0). 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 1 certified roofing contractors serving the Pueblo metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top one individually to confirm its record. On 1 January 2026 Pueblo’s single regional building department split in two, so who may roof your house now depends on which side of the city limit you live: the City of Pueblo and Boone answer to the new Southern Colorado Building Department, while Pueblo West and the rest of the county answer to a new county building division, and a roofer working both needs two licences. Colorado licenses no roofers at state level. One manufacturer-certified roofer with five or more reviews appears in the directory for Pueblo, a Pueblo firm since 1985, and it is ranked; five more locally licensed roofers are listed for comparison.
What a Pueblo roof is up against
Colorado has no state roofing licence; licensing is local. What the state does regulate is the contract. Under C.R.S. 6-22-103 every residential roofing contract must let you rescind within 72 hours of signing and get your deposit back, and the roofer must hold your payments in trust until materials are delivered or most of the work is done. Under 6-22-104 you may also rescind within 72 hours of the insurer’s written denial of all or part of the claim, with payments returned within ten days less the value of work already done.
C.R.S. 6-22-105 bars a roofer paid from an insurance claim from advertising or promising to pay, waive or rebate your deductible; if it does, your insurer need not consider its estimate. A roofer soliciting work may not claim to be or act as a public adjuster.
Inside the City of Pueblo, the Southern Colorado Building Department (SOCOBD) licenses roofers as Building Contractor D, one of only five licence types that require a passing ICC exam, and its public contractor search shows each firm’s licence types, expiry and insurance dates. A reroof needs a permit, a fixed $135 for a residential asphalt shingle roof from 1 August 2026. SOCOBD’s reroof guide requires drip edge at eaves and rakes, does not require an ice barrier, and uses a 106 mph residential design wind speed.
Across 2016 to 2025 Pueblo County logged 139 hail reports, 125 of an inch or larger, topped by 3.00 inches at Pueblo Memorial Airport on 13 July 2023; Pueblo West logged more reports than the city. The county record holds only 53 thunderstorm wind reports and two tornadoes, and $34,000 of recorded damage, with every hail row at zero. The city’s median home was built in 1965, 71.7 percent of its housing predates 1980, and 38.6 percent of its occupied homes are rented.
The one certified roofer ranked in Pueblo, CO
Scored 2026-10-07. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Pueblo is 4.2, across a pool of 1 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drury Brothers Roofing | 57.0 | Master Elite | 4.2 (118) | 4.2 | 1985 | Pueblo, CO |
1. Drury Brothers Roofing: TRB Score 57.0
Drury Brothers Roofing is based in Pueblo, CO, in business since 1985, led by Dwight Drury, BBB accredited since 16 February 2011, A+ rating, two complaints closed in three years, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), Owens Corning Platinum Preferred Contractor. 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 | 8.0 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 15.0 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 57.0 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Licence 0011548, active to 31 December 2026, covering home building (C00) and roofing (D44), examinee Dwight Drury, with workers’ compensation and liability insurance on file.. Southern Colorado Building Department contractor search
- Drury Brothers Roofing, Inc., a Colorado corporation formed 18 April 1985, in good standing, registered agent Dwight Derek Drury.. Colorado Secretary of State
- Accredited since February 2011 with an A+ rating; business started 18 April 1985; two complaints closed in three years.. BBB business profile
- Listed at 2201 N Interstate 25, Pueblo, as a Platinum Preferred Contractor, membership 206712.. Owens Corning contractor locator
What they actually do. Residential shingle, tile and metal roofing; commercial TPO, EPDM and flat roofing; hail and storm repair; solar roofing; siding and gutters.
Why it ranks here. Pueblo’s longest-standing large roofer: a Colorado corporation formed in April 1985, with the state register and BBB agreeing on the date, and founded in Pueblo, the company says, by Don Drury and his sons Dwight and Dwane. It holds an active SOCOBD licence for both roofing and home building with insurance on file, and Owens Corning’s own locator confirms its Platinum Preferred status, so it carries the top tier from two manufacturers. It also works Colorado Springs and southern Colorado towns. Family members run separate roofing businesses elsewhere, and a Denver corporation with the Drury Bros name has been delinquent with the state since 2017; that is a different entity, not this one.
Best fit for: City of Pueblo homeowners who want a long-established local firm with a verifiable city roofing licence and top-tier credentials from two manufacturers.
What we would want clarified. Two BBB complaints closed in the last three years (outcomes not reviewed). Its licence is with SOCOBD, which covers the city and Boone only; for a Pueblo West or county address, ask for its Pueblo County licence, which we could not check. 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 (719) 543-0600, 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 roofers serving Pueblo
One certified firm is ranked here. These five hold an active SOCOBD roofing licence (type D44) and an Owens Corning credential. They are not scored and we are not recommending them; if you live in Pueblo West or elsewhere outside city limits, also confirm a county licence.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| Turner Roofing, LLC | SOCOBD licence 0001417 for roofing and siding; Owens Corning Preferred; BBB accredited since 2007 at A+ with no complaints in three years; on W 8th St in Pueblo. |
| Colorado Front Range Roofing | SOCOBD licence 0012970 for roofing and siding; Owens Corning Preferred; on N Elizabeth St in Pueblo, trading since 2013; BBB accreditation only since October 2025. |
| Old World Roofing | SOCOBD licence 0002735; Owens Corning Platinum Preferred for its Pueblo branch on E 13th St; BBB accredited since 1991. Headquartered in Colorado Springs; two complaints closed in three years. |
| Cornerstone Roofing & Gutters | SOCOBD licence 0011332; Owens Corning Platinum Preferred; based in Pueblo West. BBB shows six complaints closed in three years, a high count for its size, so read them first; we could not check its county licence. |
| All Pro Roofing, Siding and Gutter, LLC | SOCOBD licence 0014142 for roofing and siding; Owens Corning Preferred; formed 2017. BBB accredited only since July 2026, and its licence record shows workers’ compensation waived, so ask who will be on your roof. |
What 3.0 inch hail does to a Pueblo 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 1 county of the Pueblo, CO statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 139 hail reports, 53 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 2 tornadoes. The database’s property-damage fields are left blank for most of these reports, so it carries no usable loss total for this metro and we do not quote one.
The biggest hail to fall on Pueblo in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 July 2023 | 3.0 in | Pueblo | Pueblo |
| 1 July 2021 | 2.75 in | Avondale | Pueblo |
| 13 July 2023 | 2.75 in | Pueblo | Pueblo |
| 13 July 2023 | 2.75 in | Vineland | Pueblo |
| 13 July 2023 | 2.75 in | Vineland | Pueblo |
| 6 August 2018 | 2.5 in | Pueblo Depot | Pueblo |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 13 July 2023 near Pueblo, measured at 3.0 inches. That is baseball sized, comfortably past the point where a roof is written off rather than repaired.
Wind. The strongest thunderstorm gust logged in the metro was 103 knots, about 119 mph, near Avondale on 1 July 2021. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 2 tornadoes touched down in these counties over the decade, the strongest rated EF0 near Pueblo West on 12 July 2018.
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 23 July 2018 event near Pueblo, reproduced verbatim:
Severe thunderstorm wind gusts near 60 mph were observed near Fort Carson, while a 78 mph thunderstorm wind gust was measured at the Pueblo airport near Pueblo during the afternoon of the 23rd.
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 (73), May (57), June (32). The worst years on record were 2016 (27), 2017 (25), 2019 (23). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Pueblo, 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. Pueblo sees enough damaging hail that a Class 4 impact-rated shingle is worth pricing, though not automatically worth buying. Get both quotes and weigh the premium against any insurance discount.
One county, two building departments
Until the end of 2025 the City and County of Pueblo shared the Pueblo Regional Building Department under an intergovernmental agreement. On 24 June 2025 the County Commissioners voted 2 to 1 to end it. In December 2025 the county repealed and replaced its building title for a new Pueblo County Building Division, approved a settlement with the city over the dissolution, and adopted Resolution 25-303, which took effect on 31 December 2025 with a Contractors Licenses code and the 2021 International Residential Code for unincorporated Pueblo County.
From 1 January 2026 the old department became the Southern Colorado Building Department, serving only the City of Pueblo and the Town of Boone, and it says it has no jurisdiction in unincorporated areas. Its chief building official told KOAA that contractors working both inside city limits and in the county will need a licence from both departments. Pueblo West, which logged more hail reports than any other place in the county over the decade, is in neither SOCOBD jurisdiction, so its roofs fall to the county.
The two rulebooks differ. In the city a roofer needs a SOCOBD Building Contractor D (Roofing) licence backed by the ICC Roofing exam, renewed every year; a firm that misses the 31 May renewal deadline must apply again and retest. In the county a roofer needs a Building Contractor D (Specialty) licence with at least $250,000 per occurrence and $500,000 aggregate liability cover and workers’ compensation, and hiring an unlicensed contractor is itself unlawful. County permits go only to the contractor named in the contract with the owner.
Fees differ too: SOCOBD charges a flat $135 for a residential shingle reroof, while the county prices residential alteration permits by contract value. Both now enforce the 2021 International Residential Code, the county from 31 December 2025 and the city from codes SOCOBD says were adopted in June 2026.
Wind matters more than the county storm record suggests. NOAA files Pueblo’s downslope windstorms by forecast zone rather than county, and the zone covering Pueblo below 6,300 feet logged 116 High Wind reports on 71 days in the decade, peaking in December, with an 84 knot estimated gust in January 2017 and an 83 knot measured gust in December 2022. In July 2021 an estimated 103 knot thunderstorm gust near Avondale flipped five empty rail cars. For a Pueblo reroof, that makes edge metal and nailing the first questions, and the second is which department’s licence the roofer holds for your address.
Pueblo’s split building rules and storm record
| Item | Figure or rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Building department, City of Pueblo and Boone | Southern Colorado Building Department, from 1 January 2026 | SOCOBD |
| Building department, Pueblo West and unincorporated county | Pueblo County Building Division, from 31 December 2025 | Pueblo County Resolution 25-303 |
| Roofing licence, city | Building Contractor D, ICC Roofing exam, renewed yearly | SOCOBD licensing handout; City Code 4-1-21 |
| Roofing licence, county | Building Contractor D (Specialty); $250,000/$500,000 liability | Pueblo County Code ch. 15.10 |
| Residential shingle reroof permit, city | $135 flat, from 1 August 2026 | SOCOBD fee schedule |
| Contract rescission | 72 hours after signing; 72 hours after a claim denial | C.R.S. 6-22-103 and 6-22-104 |
| Hail reports, 2016 to 2025 | 139; largest 3.00 inches, 13 July 2023 | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| High Wind reports, Pueblo zone below 6,300 ft | 116 on 71 days; peak 84 knots | NOAA NCEI Storm Events, zone rows |
| Residential design wind speed, city | 106 mph | SOCOBD design criteria |
| Homes built before 1980, City of Pueblo | 71.7 percent | ACS 2020 to 2024, B25034 |
Source: Southern Colorado Building Department licensing handouts, fee schedule, reroof guide, design criteria and contractor search; Pueblo County Resolution 25-303 and Board of County Commissioners agenda of 18 December 2025; KOAA reporting on the departmental split; C.R.S. 6-22-103 to 105; Colorado Roofing Association; NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (county and forecast zone rows); Colorado Secretary of State business records; Owens Corning contractor locator; BBB business profiles; US Census Bureau ACS 2020 to 2024.
How to check a Pueblo roofer in ten minutes
There is no state roofing licence in CO. Colorado issues no statewide roofing licence. The Department of Regulatory Agencies does not licence roofers at all, so licensing and permitting happen at city and county level and differ sharply between jurisdictions. State law does govern the residential roofing contract itself: C.R.S. 6-22-103 to 105 give a 72-hour right to rescind after an insurance claim is denied, require payments to be held in trust until materials arrive or work starts, and ban promising to rebate or waive the deductible.
There is no voluntary state credential. The local rules are mandatory where they apply: in Denver, for example, a firm needs a contractor’s licence, and to get one it must hold or employ the holder of a Class D roofing supervisor certificate (Roof Covering/Waterproofing, Roofing-Shingles Residential Only, or Metal Roof Installer). The shingle and roof covering certificates require two years of field experience documented across at least 24 projects in 24 different months, and Denver accepts no licence or certificate from other counties or states.
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: Denver Community Planning and Development contractor licensing (one example of a local register). Confirm the contractor holds a licence for the specific municipality your home sits in, and that they, not you, pull the roofing permit.
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 Pueblo actually has
1 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Pueblo, CO statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 118 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.2. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 169,866, a change of 1.01% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Pueblo rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Pueblo, CO 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 0 hold President’s Club standing and 1 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.2. The top one 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.
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: 2026-10-07. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
The questions that come up most in Pueblo
Who is the best roofer in Pueblo, CO?
How many certified roofing contractors serve Pueblo?
1 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Pueblo, CO statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Pueblo get?
The Pueblo, CO statistical area recorded 125 hail reports of 1 inch or larger and 10 of 2 inches or larger between 2016 and 2025 in the NOAA Storm Events Database. The largest hailstone reported measured 3.0 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 Pueblo in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Pueblo, CO statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 3.0 inches, reported near Pueblo on 13 July 2023. That is baseball sized, comfortably past the point where a roof is written off rather than repaired. Across the decade the metro recorded 139 hail reports. The database’s property-damage fields are left blank for most of these reports, so it carries no usable loss total for this metro and we do not quote one.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Pueblo?
Severe-weather reports in the Pueblo, CO statistical area cluster in July, May, June, 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 CO?
Colorado issues no statewide roofing licence. The Department of Regulatory Agencies does not licence roofers at all, so licensing and permitting happen at city and county level and differ sharply between jurisdictions. State law does govern the residential roofing contract itself: C.R.S. 6-22-103 to 105 give a 72-hour right to rescind after an insurance claim is denied, require payments to be held in trust until materials arrive or work starts, and ban promising to rebate or waive the deductible. There is no voluntary state credential. The local rules are mandatory where they apply: in Denver, for example, a firm needs a contractor’s licence, and to get one it must hold or employ the holder of a Class D roofing supervisor certificate (Roof Covering/Waterproofing, Roofing-Shingles Residential Only, or Metal Roof Installer). The shingle and roof covering certificates require two years of field experience documented across at least 24 projects in 24 different months, and Denver accepts no licence or certificate from other counties or states.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Pueblo?
Confirm the contractor holds a licence for the specific municipality your home sits in, and that they, not you, pull the roofing permit.
One county, two building departments?
Until the end of 2025 the City and County of Pueblo shared the Pueblo Regional Building Department under an intergovernmental agreement. On 24 June 2025 the County Commissioners voted 2 to 1 to end it. In December 2025 the county repealed and replaced its building title for a new Pueblo County Building Division, approved a settlement with the city over the dissolution, and adopted Resolution 25-303, which took effect on 31 December 2025 with a Contractors Licenses code and the 2021 International Residential Code for unincorporated Pueblo County.
Is Pueblo a hard market to find a good roofer in?
On 1 January 2026 Pueblo’s single regional building department split in two, so who may roof your house now depends on which side of the city limit you live: the City of Pueblo and Boone answer to the new Southern Colorado Building Department, while Pueblo West and the rest of the county answer to a new county building division, and a roofer working both needs two licences. Colorado licenses no roofers at state level. One manufacturer-certified roofer with five or more reviews appears in the directory for Pueblo, a Pueblo firm since 1985, and it is ranked; five more locally licensed roofers are listed for comparison.
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 Colorado Springs, CO, about 42 miles from Pueblo
- Best roofers in Denver, CO, about 104 miles from Pueblo
- Best roofers in Boulder, CO, about 126 miles from Pueblo
- Best roofers in Greeley, CO, about 149 miles from Pueblo
- Best roofers in Fort Collins, CO, another CO metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Grand Junction, CO, another CO metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Odessa, TX, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Waterloo, IA, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Santa Fe, NM, also scored, about 195 miles away
- Best roofers in Albuquerque, NM, also scored, about 246 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 Pueblo, CO: 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.