Short answer: As of October 2026, the five highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Amarillo, TX metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are BlueRidge Roofing & Construction (86.9), TRX Roofing & Construction LLC (79.0), Pristine Roofing & Construction LLC (73.9), Venture Roofing & Construction (70.0), All Star Sheet Metal & Roofing LLC (67.6). 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 8 certified roofing contractors serving the Amarillo metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top five individually to confirm its record. Amarillo took 472 hail reports of an inch or more across its five counties in ten years, which is the heaviest hail exposure of any metro in this programme, and Texas licenses no roofing contractors at all. What fills the gap here is unusually good: the City of Amarillo requires every roofing contractor to register annually, with a $20,000 surety bond and $300,000 general liability for residential work, and the city links from its own roofing page to the Texas Panhandle Roofing Contractors Association, the local chapter of the body that issues the state’s only roofing credential. That gives a homeowner two real checks. We applied them to every firm below, and three of the five hold no roofing licence of any kind.
What an Amarillo roof is up against
The numbers are worth sitting with. Across 2016 to 2025 NOAA logged 590 hail reports in Potter, Randall, Armstrong, Carson and Oldham counties, 472 of them at an inch or more and 70 at two inches or more, alongside 367 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 39 tornadoes. The largest stone of the decade was 4.25 inches in Armstrong County about seven miles south of Claude on 8 June 2025, where the NWS Amarillo narrative records a swath of hail ranging from quarter size to grapefruit size. Within Potter and Randall counties, which contain the city itself, the largest report in the same decade was 3.00 inches, in Potter County on 16 May 2016. The point is not the single worst stone. It is the repetition: a roof installed in Amarillo at the start of that decade sat under hundreds of damaging-size hail reports before it was ten years old.
The City of Amarillo’s registration requirement is the strongest municipal control in the Texas metros we have covered, and it is worth asking a contractor to produce. The municipal code provides that no person engaged in the business of roofing shall erect, construct, enlarge, alter, repair, remove, improve, convert or demolish any roof or roof structure for which a permit is required within the corporate limits until that person has registered with the city. Table 4-1-110 sets the terms: a residential roofing contractor needs a $20,000 licence and permit surety bond and $300,000 general liability; a commercial roofing contractor needs the same bond with $1,000,000 general liability; a contractor doing both needs both registrations, both bonds and a single $1,000,000 policy. The same table records, for every category, that no state licence or registration is required, because none exists.
The city’s technical rules for a reroof are more specific than most and several of them cost money, so know them before you compare quotes. New roof coverings cannot be installed without removing existing layers, with an exception for complete and separate metal roofing systems, so a roof-over is not an option here. A drip edge is mandatory on all asphalt shingled roofing projects. Damaged or deteriorated roof vents and flashings must be replaced. Chimney crickets are required on chimneys wider than 30 inches. The permit number must be displayed and clearly visible from the street. The residential roofing permit is a flat $173 plus a $13 technology fee, and the application is void if not acted on within 180 days. One oddity: the city’s residential code page refers to the 2021 International Residential Code with city amendments while its roofing page still cites section 105.1 of the 2015 edition, so the city’s own pages disagree on the edition, though the permit requirement is identical in both.
Nothing in Amarillo’s rules requires or rewards an impact-resistant roof, which is striking in the most hail-exposed metro in this programme. The city’s roofing requirements cover permits, registration, drip edge, tear-off, ventilation, flashing, chimney crickets and wood shake grading, and never mention impact resistance, hail rating or Class 4. We found no Potter or Randall County requirement either. The incentive in Texas is an insurance credit rather than a code rule, and even there you should not accept a number from a contractor: the Texas Department of Insurance states that the amount of discount for each class of roofing material is established on a company-by-company basis and tells homeowners to check with their own insurer. It also warns that since 1 January 1999 eligible materials must carry an approved laboratory label with the UL 2218 class, manufacturer, year and brand, and that materials without it do not qualify even if they meet the standard.
The 5 best roofers in Amarillo, TX
Scored 2026-10-02. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Amarillo is 4.811, across a pool of 8 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BlueRidge Roofing & Construction | 86.9 | Master Elite | 5.0 (132) | 4.948 | 2020 | Amarillo, TX |
| 2 | TRX Roofing & Construction LLC | 79.0 | Master Elite | 4.8 (63) | 4.805 | not published | Amarillo, TX |
| 3 | Pristine Roofing & Construction LLC | 73.9 | Certified | 5.0 (106) | 4.939 | 2020 | Amarillo, TX |
| 4 | Venture Roofing & Construction | 70.0 | Certified | 4.9 (78) | 4.865 | 2023 | Amarillo, TX |
| 5 | All Star Sheet Metal & Roofing LLC | 67.6 | Certified | 4.8 (79) | 4.804 | 1963 | Amarillo, TX |
1. BlueRidge Roofing & Construction — TRB Score 86.9
BlueRidge Roofing & Construction is based in Amarillo, TX, in business since 2020, led by Tim Reed, managing owner, and Jennifer Reed; Joel Reed CRRL is the named RCAT licence holder, BBB accredited, A+ rating, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), RCAT Commercial & Residential Roofing licence #03-0712, class 03, verified in RCAT’s licensed-contractor directory. 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 | 37.9 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 15.0 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 86.9 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Holds Commercial & Residential Roofing licence #03-0712 in the name of J. Reed, recorded as established 22 January 2020 and an RCAT member since 2022, and listed in the Texas Panhandle Roofing Contractors Association directory.. Roofing Contractors Association of Texas licensed-contractor directory
- Accredited with an A+ rating at the West Interstate 40 address, with a business start date of 25 February 2021.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Roof replacement, roof repair, storm and hail damage, commercial flat roof systems, new construction, metal roofing, composition shingles, wood shake.
Why it ranks here. The top score in the metro on a 5.0 across 132 reviews with Master Elite certification, and one of only two firms ranked here holding the RCAT licence, verified in the association’s own directory rather than taken from the company. Class 03 covers both commercial and residential. It is also one of the few firms documenting wood shake alongside composition and metal, which matters on the older Potter County housing stock, and it is a member of the Texas Panhandle chapter the city itself links to.
Best fit for: A hail-damage replacement where you want the only verifiable roofing credential in Texas, plus wood shake capability.
What we would want clarified. Records disagree on when it started: RCAT records 22 January 2020, BBB records 25 February 2021, and its own site gives no founding year, so it is four or five years old rather than long-established. The RCAT licence is held in the name of Joel Reed while the company’s own About page names Tim Reed as managing partner and Jennifer Reed as office manager, and we could not establish whether Tim and Joel are the same person. We could not confirm any City of Amarillo registration number: a search-engine read of the BBB profile reported one, but our own direct fetches rendered no licensing section, so we do not assert it. It runs additional phone lines for Lubbock, Clovis, Portales, Midland and Odessa, so ask which crew does Amarillo work. Its GAF tier is self-reported. 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 (806) 341-9438, 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. TRX Roofing & Construction LLC — TRB Score 79.0
TRX Roofing & Construction LLC is based in Amarillo, TX, led by Taylor Waddell, Owner, Not accredited; A+ rating, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), RCAT Commercial & Residential Roofing licences #03-0538 and #03-0532, class 03, verified in RCAT’s licensed-contractor directory, Haag certified inspectors, per the company’s own site. 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 | 32.2 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 12.8 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 79.0 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Holds two Commercial & Residential Roofing licences, #03-0538 in the name of T. Waddell and #03-0532 in the name of D. Moon, with RCAT membership since 2021. RCAT records the business as established 1 October 2019.. Roofing Contractors Association of Texas licensed-contractor directory
- Rated A+ though not accredited, at the Camp Lane address, with a business start date of 1 January 2020.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Roof installation, roof repair, insurance claim roofing work, new construction, residential and commercial roofing, metal roofing.
Why it ranks here. One of very few firms in Texas carrying two separate RCAT licence holders on one listing, #03-0538 and #03-0532, both at class 03. It also states that its inspectors hold Haag certification, which is an independent inspector credential rather than a manufacturer badge and the relevant one when the argument is about whether hail damage exists. In the most hail-exposed metro in this programme, a firm whose inspectors are independently credentialled and which carries two licensed principals is making the right investments. It holds Master Elite with 4.8 across 63 reviews.
Best fit for: Contested hail claims where the inspection itself is the battleground, and anyone who wants two licensed principals behind the company.
What we would want clarified. We could not pin a founding year: RCAT records 1 October 2019, BBB records 1 January 2020, and its own site states none. It is not BBB accredited, though BBB rates it A+. The Texas Panhandle Builders Association listing gives two further Amarillo addresses, so confirm which is the current principal place of business. We could not identify D. Moon, the second licence holder, or verify any City of Amarillo registration number. Its 63 reviews are a modest base and its GAF tier is self-reported. 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 (806) 683-7702, 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.
3. Pristine Roofing & Construction LLC — TRB Score 73.9
Pristine Roofing & Construction LLC is based in Amarillo, TX, in business since 2020, led by Warren Maxwell and Hayden Powers, co-owners, BBB accredited, A+ rating, and holds Certified standing on the GAF certification registry.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 12 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 37.6 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 14.3 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 73.9 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Accredited with an A+ rating at the Olsen Blvd address, with a business start date of 1 July 2020 and Warren Maxwell and Hayden Powers as co-owners.. BBB business profile
- Company number 0803661090, with a tax forfeiture dated 5 September 2025 and a reinstatement dated 16 January 2026; the entity is recorded as In Existence.. Texas public business registration record
What they actually do. Roof restoration, roof installation, residential and commercial roofing, metal roofing, gutters, siding, roof inspections.
Why it ranks here. A 5.0 across 106 reviews, the second deepest clean record in the metro, from a firm started in July 2020 by two named co-owners who had roofed for about a decade beforehand, BBB accredited at A+. It states a service radius of about 200 miles from Amarillo including Canyon, Bushland and Lubbock, so it is one of the broader coverage areas on this page.
Best fit for: Straightforward replacement where the review record is what you are buying, after you have resolved the registration question below.
What we would want clarified. Two things to put to it directly. Its Texas registration record shows a tax forfeiture dated 5 September 2025 and a reinstatement dated 16 January 2026, so the entity lost and regained its good standing within the last year. We report that neutrally because a forfeiture is usually an administrative filing failure rather than a sign of trouble, and the entity is now In Existence, but you are entitled to ask what happened and to check that its bond and insurance ran continuously through that gap. Second, it holds no RCAT licence and appears in neither RCAT’s licensed-contractor directory nor the Texas Panhandle chapter’s, and its own About page lists no manufacturer or trade certification at all. We could not verify any City of Amarillo registration number. Its GAF tier is self-reported. 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 (806) 557-0060, 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.
4. Venture Roofing & Construction — TRB Score 70.0
Venture Roofing & Construction is based in Amarillo, TX, in business since 2023, led by Zane Pulley and Anthony Zanghi, co-owners, BBB accredited since 29 May 2025, A+ rating, and holds Certified standing on the GAF certification registry.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 12 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 34.6 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 13.4 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 70.0 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Accredited since 29 May 2025 with an A+ rating, a business start date of 4 January 2023, and Zane Pulley and Anthony Zanghi as co-owners.. BBB business profile
- Listed as a member since 2026 at 5801 Canyon Drive Suite B, Amarillo, with Zane Pulley as principal contact, and carrying no licence class or number.. Texas Panhandle Roofing Contractors Association directory
What they actually do. Residential and commercial roofing, roof replacement, roof repair.
Why it ranks here. A 4.9 across 78 reviews from a firm barely three years old, BBB accredited at A+ since May 2025, with two named co-owners, and a member of both RCAT and the Texas Panhandle chapter that the city links to from its own roofing page. Joining the local chapter in its third year is the behaviour of a firm intending to stay.
Best fit for: A competitive third or fourth quote from a young local firm whose owners are named and whose trade-body membership is real.
What we would want clarified. Membership is not a licence and here the distinction matters. Its entries in both the RCAT and Texas Panhandle directories show a member-since year of 2026 and no licence class or number, and it is absent from RCAT’s licensed-contractor directory where the licensed Amarillo firms appear with 03-series numbers. So it has joined the association without holding its credential. It also has no website on its own domain: neither directory nor the BBB profile shows one, and BBB lists only a Facebook page, which is a real limitation when you are trying to read a warranty. We could not verify any City of Amarillo registration number. Its GAF tier is self-reported. 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 (806) 910-8104, 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.
5. All Star Sheet Metal & Roofing LLC — TRB Score 67.6
All Star Sheet Metal & Roofing LLC is based in Amarillo, TX, in business since 1963, led by Rodney Lewis, Owner, BBB accredited since 7 June 2011, A+ rating, and holds Certified standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Certified (GAF), RCAT Commercial & Residential Roofing licence #03-0420, class 03, verified in RCAT’s licensed-contractor directory. 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 | 12 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 32.2 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 13.4 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 67.6 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Holds Commercial & Residential Roofing licence #03-0420 in the name of R. Lewis, an RCAT member since 2022, with a date established of 1 January 1963 and Rodney Lewis as principal contact.. Roofing Contractors Association of Texas licensed-contractor directory
- Accredited since 7 June 2011, the longest accreditation in this metro, with an A+ rating, a founding date of 1 June 1963, and Rodney Lewis as owner.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Sheet metal fabrication, metal roofing, residential and commercial roofing, roof repair, seamless gutters, siding, window replacement, CNC plasma cutting.
Why it ranks here. Sixty-three years old, third-generation and family-owned, with the longest BBB accreditation in the metro running to June 2011 and an RCAT licence verified in the association’s own directory. It is the only firm here operating a sheet metal fabrication business alongside the roofing, including CNC plasma cutting and custom fabrication, which in a market that mandates drip edge on every asphalt roof and requires chimney crickets over 30 inches means the metal work is made in house rather than bought in. It ranks fifth on our formula on tier and a 4.8 across 79 reviews, not on anything in its record, which is the strongest on this page.
Best fit for: Metal roofing, custom flashing, crickets and valley metal, and anyone who weights length of trading and in-house fabrication above a certification badge.
What we would want clarified. Its base-tier GAF certification is what holds its score down relative to the Master Elite firms above it, so read the ranking as a statement about badges rather than about the business. Its two domains are confusing: RCAT lists allstarsheetmetal.net, which presented a TLS certificate not matching the hostname, while amarillotxroofing.com served the company’s site, so use the latter. RCAT and BBB differ by months on the founding date, 1 January against 1 June 1963. We could not verify a City of Amarillo registration number, and its GAF tier is self-reported. 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 (806) 372-6621, 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.
What 4.25 inch hail does to an Amarillo 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 Amarillo, TX statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 590 hail reports, 367 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 39 tornadoes. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $26.5 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
The biggest hail to fall on Amarillo in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 June 2025 | 4.25 in | Claude | Armstrong |
| 22 June 2020 | 3.25 in | Vega | Oldham |
| 16 April 2017 | 3.0 in | Conway | Carson |
| 16 May 2016 | 3.0 in | Valle De Oro | Potter |
| 16 May 2016 | 3.0 in | Valle De Oro | Potter |
| 1 May 2022 | 2.75 in | Amarillo | Potter |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 8 June 2025 near Claude, measured at 4.25 inches. That is grapefruit sized. Stones that big destroy asphalt shingles outright, dent metal, crack tile and routinely total roofs across whole neighbourhoods.
Wind. The strongest thunderstorm gust logged in the metro was 90 knots, about 104 mph, near Lake Tanglewood on 8 June 2017. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 39 tornadoes touched down in these counties over the decade, the strongest rated EF2 near Masterson on 13 June 2016.
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 8 June 2017 event near Lake Tanglewood, reproduced verbatim:
A damage survey conducted determined that a microburst associated with a severe thunderstorm caused damage associated with approximately 90MPH winds.
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 May (325), June (268), August (112). The worst years on record were 2019 (194), 2017 (112), 2016 (104). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Amarillo, 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. At 472 damaging-hail reports in ten years, impact resistance in Amarillo is a specification question, not an upsell. Ask every contractor you shortlist to quote a UL 2218 Class 4 impact-rated shingle alongside the standard option, and ask your insurer whether a Class 4 roof earns a premium discount, because many carriers offer one in high-hail territory.
What a Class 4 shingle actually survives, and what it does not
In a metro with 472 damaging hail reports in a decade, impact-resistant shingles come up in every sales conversation, and the test behind the label is narrower than the pitch. UL 2218 is a steel ball drop test, not a hailstone test. Per IBHS, the Class 1 projectile is 1.25 inches in diameter, Class 2 is 1.50, Class 3 is 1.75 and Class 4 is 2.00 inches, and the balls are dropped from the height needed to match the kinetic energy a hailstone of the same size would carry in a thunderstorm. Test panels are three feet by three feet, built to the manufacturer’s instructions, and struck twice at each of several locations: six on a three-tab shingle including edge, joint, corner, eave edge and two centre positions, and twelve on an architectural shingle. Any evidence of opening, tearing, fracturing, cracking or rupturing on the back of the shingle is recorded as a failure, read under a microscope at 7.5 times magnification. FORTIFIED puts the plain-English version well for metal panels: Class 4 means the product was still functional after being struck twice in the same spot by two-inch steel balls.
Note what that threshold is and is not. Amarillo’s decade included 70 reports of two inches or more, so the Class 4 projectile is roughly the size of the larger stones this metro actually produces, not the worst of them. The 4.25-inch stone near Claude is more than twice the diameter of the Class 4 ball, and energy scales far faster than diameter. A Class 4 shingle is a good buy in this market. It is not a guarantee against the storms this market is capable of.
The more useful thing IBHS publishes is the distinction between damage modes, because it explains the arguments homeowners have with adjusters here. IBHS defines three: deformation, meaning dents or ridges altering the shape of the shingle; granule loss, meaning loss of one or more granules; and tear, crack or rupture, meaning a breach. Only the third counts as failure under the test standard. In its 2014 UL 2218 programme IBHS recorded that crushed granules were observed on every panel tested while noting that this damage mode is not seen in the field, because hailstones often dislodge granules but are not hard enough to crush them, and that under UL 2218 criteria crushed or dislodged granules, dents, or openings visible only on the top of the shingle are not considered failures.
So a roof in Amarillo can accumulate genuine wear across repeated storms, visible as granule loss and deformation, that no impact rating is designed to count and no single claim will capture. And IBHS research on water leakage through hail-damaged shingles found this is not merely cosmetic: the relationship is progressive rather than a threshold, with small dents producing negligible leakage, larger indentations admitting substantially more water, and tear damage approaching a severity of 1 on a 0 to 3 scale allowing large amounts of water leakage. Damage short of an obvious hole is not necessarily damage short of water entry.
One thing we will not tell you is how much service life repeated sub-failure hail costs a roof. We looked for a primary source quantifying it and could not find one. IBHS documents the damage modes and the leakage consequences; nobody we could verify has put a number on accelerated ageing. Treat any contractor who gives you one as having invented it. What you can do is practical: buy the Class 4 product, get the laboratory label photographed before installation so the insurance credit is not argued later, ask your own insurer what the credit is worth in dollars rather than asking the roofer, and have the roof looked at after each significant storm rather than only when it leaks.
Amarillo’s hail decade, and what the test standard covers
| Measure | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hail reports of 1.00 inch or more, 2016 to 2025 | 472, from 590 hail reports of all sizes | NOAA NCEI Storm Events, five counties |
| Hail reports of 2.00 inches or more | 70 | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Largest stone of the decade | 4.25 inches, Armstrong County, 8 June 2025 | NWS Amarillo, NCEI event 1268201 |
| Largest stone in Potter and Randall counties | 3.00 inches, Potter County, 16 May 2016 | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| UL 2218 Class 4 projectile | A 2.00 inch steel ball, dropped twice at each location | IBHS |
| What counts as a test failure | Opening, tearing, fracturing, cracking or rupturing on the BACK of the shingle | IBHS |
| What does not count as failure | Crushed or dislodged granules, dents, or openings visible only on the top | IBHS |
| Code requirement for impact resistance in Amarillo | None | City of Amarillo roofing requirements |
| Insurance credit for Class 4 | Highest credit, but the amount is set company by company | Texas Department of Insurance |
| Residential roofing permit | $173 flat, plus a $13 technology fee | City of Amarillo fee schedule |
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database and NWS Amarillo narratives; IBHS Roof 101 and Relative Impact Resistance of Asphalt Shingles; IBHS water leakage research; FORTIFIED Home hail supplement; City of Amarillo roofing information, fee schedule and Municipal Code Table 4-1-110; Texas Department of Insurance.
What an Amarillo homeowner should ask for in writing
There is no state roofing licence in TX. Texas does not issue or require a state roofing contractor licence. There is no state exam, no state licence number to check, and no state board that can discipline a roofer.
The Roofing Contractors Association of Texas (RCAT) runs a voluntary Licensed Roofing Contractor program requiring two years of Texas experience, a fixed business address, a business and safety exam and a roofing exam at 70% or better, and at least $300,000 general liability insurance for residential work or a $100,000 surety bond.
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: RCAT licensed contractor lookup. Many Texas cities still require roofers to register with the municipality and pull a permit, so check with the city building department where the work will happen.
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 Amarillo actually has
8 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Amarillo, TX statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 614 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.811. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 274,650, a change of 2.21% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Amarillo rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Amarillo, TX 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 8 certified contractors, of whom 0 hold President’s Club standing and 3 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.811. The top five 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 Amarillo. A contractor that would otherwise have scored into the top five 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.
- Shreiner’s Kanga Roof, which scored 68.4: Scored fifth and is not ranked, because we could not establish the basic facts about it. No principal or owner is named anywhere we looked: not on its own site, not on the BBB profile, not on the chamber listing. Its founding year has three different answers, with BBB recording 31 May 2023, the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce recording membership since 2022, and search extracts of its own site describing the Shreiner family as serving Amarillo since 1995, a claim we could not find on any page of the site itself. KangaRoof is a brand used by operators in several states, which could reconcile a recent entity with a longer family history, but we could not confirm any franchise relationship from a primary source. It holds no RCAT licence and appears in neither RCAT’s licensed-contractor directory nor the Texas Panhandle chapter’s, and it is not BBB accredited, though BBB rates it A+ with no complaints closed in the last three years. None of this means the firm does poor work. It means that in a market where the only two available checks are a city registration and a voluntary trade licence, we could not verify an owner, a founding date or a credential, and we would rather rank a firm we can describe.
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 Amarillo homeowners want to know
Who is the best roofer in Amarillo, TX?
BlueRidge Roofing & Construction of Amarillo, TX scores highest in the Amarillo metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score, at 86.9 out of 100 as of October 2026. It holds Master Elite certification with a 5.0 rating across 132 reviews. Highest-scoring is not the same as best fit for your specific job, and the four companies behind it score within 19.3 points.
How many certified roofing contractors serve Amarillo?
8 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Amarillo, TX statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Amarillo get?
The Amarillo, TX statistical area recorded 472 hail reports of 1 inch or larger and 70 of 2 inches or larger between 2016 and 2025 in the NOAA Storm Events Database. The largest hailstone reported measured 4.25 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 five.
What was the worst hailstorm in Amarillo in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Amarillo, TX statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 4.25 inches, reported near Claude on 8 June 2025. That is grapefruit sized. Stones that big destroy asphalt shingles outright, dent metal, crack tile and routinely total roofs across whole neighbourhoods. Across the decade the metro recorded 590 hail reports. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $26.5 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Amarillo?
Severe-weather reports in the Amarillo, TX statistical area cluster in May, 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 TX?
Texas does not issue or require a state roofing contractor licence. There is no state exam, no state licence number to check, and no state board that can discipline a roofer. The Roofing Contractors Association of Texas (RCAT) runs a voluntary Licensed Roofing Contractor program requiring two years of Texas experience, a fixed business address, a business and safety exam and a roofing exam at 70% or better, and at least $300,000 general liability insurance for residential work or a $100,000 surety bond.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Amarillo?
Many Texas cities still require roofers to register with the municipality and pull a permit, so check with the city building department where the work will happen.
What a Class 4 shingle actually survives, and what it does not?
In a metro with 472 damaging hail reports in a decade, impact-resistant shingles come up in every sales conversation, and the test behind the label is narrower than the pitch. UL 2218 is a steel ball drop test, not a hailstone test. Per IBHS, the Class 1 projectile is 1.25 inches in diameter, Class 2 is 1.50, Class 3 is 1.75 and Class 4 is 2.00 inches, and the balls are dropped from the height needed to match the kinetic energy a hailstone of the same size would carry in a thunderstorm. Test panels are three feet by three feet, built to the manufacturer’s instructions, and struck twice at each of several locations: six on a three-tab shingle including edge, joint, corner, eave edge and two centre positions, and twelve on an architectural shingle. Any evidence of opening, tearing, fracturing, cracking or rupturing on the back of the shingle is recorded as a failure, read under a microscope at 7.5 times magnification. FORTIFIED puts the plain-English version well for metal panels: Class 4 means the product was still functional after being struck twice in the same spot by two-inch steel balls.
Is Amarillo a hard market to find a good roofer in?
Amarillo took 472 hail reports of an inch or more across its five counties in ten years, which is the heaviest hail exposure of any metro in this programme, and Texas licenses no roofing contractors at all. What fills the gap here is unusually good: the City of Amarillo requires every roofing contractor to register annually, with a $20,000 surety bond and $300,000 general liability for residential work, and the city links from its own roofing page to the Texas Panhandle Roofing Contractors Association, the local chapter of the body that issues the state’s only roofing credential. That gives a homeowner two real checks. We applied them to every firm below, and three of the five hold no roofing licence of any kind.
Why is Shreiner’s Kanga Roof not on this list?
Scored fifth and is not ranked, because we could not establish the basic facts about it. No principal or owner is named anywhere we looked: not on its own site, not on the BBB profile, not on the chamber listing. Its founding year has three different answers, with BBB recording 31 May 2023, the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce recording membership since 2022, and search extracts of its own site describing the Shreiner family as serving Amarillo since 1995, a claim we could not find on any page of the site itself. KangaRoof is a brand used by operators in several states, which could reconcile a recent entity with a longer family history, but we could not confirm any franchise relationship from a primary source. It holds no RCAT licence and appears in neither RCAT’s licensed-contractor directory nor the Texas Panhandle chapter’s, and it is not BBB accredited, though BBB rates it A+ with no complaints closed in the last three years. None of this means the firm does poor work. It means that in a market where the only two available checks are a city registration and a voluntary trade licence, we could not verify an owner, a founding date or a credential, and we would rather rank a firm we can describe..
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 Lubbock, TX, about 113 miles from Amarillo
- Best roofers in Dallas, TX, another TX metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in El Paso, TX, another TX metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Laredo, TX, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Evansville, IN, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Albuquerque, NM, also scored, about 272 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 Amarillo, TX: 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.