Short answer: As of October 2026, the one highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Laredo, TX metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are Laredo Roofing Solutions LLC (61.0). 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 Laredo metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top one individually to confirm its record. Webb County has 269,294 people and one certified roofing contractor. That is the whole list, and one name is not a market, so this page is built differently. The certified firm is assessed below and it is a genuine dual-credential business, holding certification in two manufacturer networks rather than one. Then we name the eleven-strong Owens Corning network inside the city, because the certified pool in Laredo is not empty, it is in the other manufacturer’s programme, and a page built on one directory cannot see it. One thing nobody in this market holds: the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas licence. There are zero licence holders within 150 miles.
Hail, codes and what they cost a Laredo homeowner
The storm case for a Laredo reroof is real and unusually concentrated. Across 2016 to 2025 Webb County logged 49 hail reports, 48 of them at an inch or more and 9 at two inches or more, topping out at 3.25 inches on 17 May 2016, when the NWS Corpus Christi narrative recorded that several homes had holes where hail went through the roof or walls. Against that there were 28 severe thunderstorm wind reports, 11 at 58 knots or more, and essentially no tornado risk: the Storm Prediction Center records only 9 tornadoes in Webb County across the whole period from 1950 to 2024, the strongest being F2 events in 1961 and 1971. May is overwhelmingly the peak month with 48 reports against 14 in April. Almost every hail report here is a damaging one, which is a different profile from the plains metros where small hail pads out the count.
What there is a great deal more of is heat, and it is the defining climate fact about roofing in this city. NOAA’s 1991 to 2020 normals for Laredo give an average of 79.9 days a year at or above 100 degrees and 184.5 days at or above 90, with a mean diurnal range of 22.6 degrees. A second NOAA source, the Applied Climate Information System ThreadEx Laredo Area series, corroborates at 78.3 days above 99 degrees, which matters because the station normal carries an estimated flag. For contrast, Longview’s East Texas Regional Airport normal is 14.2 days a year at or above 100. Webb County also logged 63 separate heat or excessive heat events in the decade against one tornado.
The housing stock is young, which changes the replacement cycle. Median year of construction is 1997 for both Webb County and the city of Laredo, roughly fifteen years newer than the Longview metro. A large share of Laredo roofs are therefore on their first or second covering, and the cohort installed around 2000 is reaching the end of a builder-grade service life now, under the heat load described above. Of 78,082 occupied units in the city, 28,062 are renter-occupied, 35.9 percent, with Webb County at 35.3 percent.
The city does regulate, modestly. The City of Laredo requires general contractors to register with Building Development Services at a $60 fee with a driver’s licence or valid ID under Ordinance 2025-O-156. A reroof requires a building permit, with published residential fees of a $34 plan check fee plus a $50 permit issuance fee. Ordinance 2024-O-149 adopted the 2021 International Residential Code along with the 2021 Building, Mechanical and Property Maintenance Codes. One caution on all of the city figures on this page: every cityoflaredo.com page refused our requests, so the permit, fee and code facts were read through the search index rather than fetched directly, and you should confirm the current numbers with the city. On the deductible, the offence binding a contractor is Business and Commerce Code section 27.02 rather than Insurance Code chapter 707, and section 27.02 requires a 12-point boldfaced notice on any contract of $1,000 or more expected to be paid from insurance proceeds.
The one certified roofer ranked in Laredo, TX
Scored 2026-10-02. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Laredo is 4.3, across a pool of 1 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laredo Roofing Solutions LLC | 61.0 | Master Elite | 4.3 (30) | 4.3 | 2017 | Laredo, TX |
1. Laredo Roofing Solutions LLC — TRB Score 61.0
Laredo Roofing Solutions LLC is based in Laredo, TX, in business since 2017, led by Loui A. Jaimes, Managing Member, BBB accredited since 12 February 2020, A+ rating, no complaints closed in three years, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), Owens Corning Roofing Preferred Contractor, verified in Owens Corning’s own 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 | 12.0 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 15.0 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 61.0 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Accredited since 12 February 2020 with an A+ rating, founded 18 December 2017, Loui A. Jaimes as managing member, with no complaints closed in the last three years.. BBB business profile
- Listed as an Owens Corning Roofing Preferred Contractor at 1407 Calle del Norte Ste 102, Laredo.. Owens Corning contractor directory
What they actually do. Asphalt shingle roofing, metal roofing, clay and tile roofing, commercial roofing, new construction, remodel and repair.
Why it ranks here. The reason this firm earns the top of a one-name list is that it does not depend on one credential. It is the single Master Elite contractor in Webb County and it also appears in Owens Corning’s own directory at the Preferred tier, so its certification is independently checkable in a second manufacturer’s network rather than resting on the directory this page is built from. Its BBB record is the strongest third-party evidence available anywhere in this market: accredited since 12 February 2020, A+, founded 18 December 2017, with a named managing member and no complaints closed in three years. It is also the only firm here documenting clay and tile alongside asphalt and metal. Its own account of why it was founded, that Laredo needed properly trained and manufacturer-certified roofing, is consistent with what we found about this market.
Best fit for: Tile, metal and shingle replacement, and anyone who wants certification verifiable in more than one network.
What we would want clarified. Its 4.3 rating across 30 reviews is a thin and unexceptional record, and we could not verify either figure because no review platform was reachable during this research, so treat the rating as unconfirmed rather than as evidence. Its two published addresses differ, with BBB listing Chihuahua St in 78043 and the Owens Corning directory listing Calle del Norte in 78041, so establish which is current. We could not establish its employee count, which matters when a single firm is the certified option in a city of 257,000 and May is the month when every claim lands at once. It holds no RCAT licence, which is unremarkable here because no company within 150 miles holds one. And we could not verify any City of Laredo general contractor registration record, because the city publishes no searchable registry we could reach, so ask for the registration and the permit in writing. 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 (956) 220-8458, 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 other certified contractors in Laredo, in the other network
Our ranking covers one manufacturer’s certified contractors, and in Laredo that is a single firm. These five are certified in Owens Corning’s programme instead, which is the dominant network in this city, and each also appears on the Better Business Bureau’s accredited roofing contractors list for Laredo. We have not assessed their work and we are not recommending them. We are naming them because a one-name page would misrepresent this market, and because each credential here is checkable at source.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| V.L. Garza Roofing, Inc. | An Owens Corning Roofing Preferred Contractor at 4504 Tilden Ave, Laredo, carrying the directory’s recycler, SS and financing badges, and on BBB’s accredited roofing contractors list for Laredo at 1105 Market St, where BBB lists it as VL Garza Roofing & Remodeling, Inc. The Owens Corning directory returns a 3.5 rating from 2 reviews, which is far too few to mean anything. |
| Next Level Roofing, LLC | An Owens Corning Roofing Preferred Contractor at 1312 Houston St, Laredo, and on BBB’s accredited roofing contractors list for Laredo at 1312 Houston St Ste 43. The Owens Corning directory returns no rating or review count for it. |
| V&V Roofing Contractors LLC | An Owens Corning Roofing Preferred Contractor at 9802 McPherson Rd Unit 116, Laredo, carrying the directory’s SS badge, and on BBB’s accredited roofing contractors list for Laredo at 2413 Jacaman Rd Ste 3. No website is published in the Owens Corning directory and we verified no review volume. |
| Texas Roofing TPO LLC | An Owens Corning Roofing Preferred Contractor at 1806 Gates St, Laredo, carrying the directory’s SS and financing badges, and on BBB’s accredited roofing contractors list for Laredo, where it is listed as Texas Roofing T.P.O LLC. No website is published in the directory. |
| JM Flores Roofing and Construction Inc | An Owens Corning Roofing Preferred Contractor at 5805 US Hwy 59, Laredo, carrying five directory badges, SS, recycler, financing, SN and TPRS, which is the most of any Laredo-area member. |
What 3.25 inch hail does to a Laredo 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 Laredo, TX statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 49 hail reports, 28 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 0 tornadoes. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $21.8 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
The biggest hail to fall on Laredo in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2016 | 3.25 in | Pescadito | Webb |
| 17 May 2016 | 2.75 in | Pescadito | Webb |
| 21 May 2017 | 2.75 in | Aguilares | Webb |
| 24 June 2019 | 2.75 in | Callaghan | Webb |
| 11 April 2017 | 2.5 in | Pescadito | Webb |
| 21 May 2017 | 2.5 in | Pescadito | Webb |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 17 May 2016 near Pescadito, measured at 3.25 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 83 knots, about 96 mph, near Webb on 21 May 2017. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
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 21 May 2017 event near Webb, reproduced verbatim:
Damage survey in connection with a severe thunderstorm revealed straight-line wind damage along a line around 5 miles in length and 1 mile in width across northwest Laredo. The damage was from west of the intersection of Interstate 69W and Mines Road to the intersection of east Del Mar Boulevard and McPherson Road. Damage was widespread through this area with numerous large tree limbs snapped, shingle damage to homes, dozens of utility poles bent or broken. The most significant damage occurred at the U.S. Customs facility near World Trade Bridge #3 and to homes in the Villas San Agustin neighborhood. At the U.S. Customs facility, several tractor trailers were overturned, and extensive…
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 May (48), April (14), March (9). The worst years on record were 2017 (20), 2022 (15), 2024 (13). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Laredo, 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 Laredo. Weight your decision toward wind rating, ventilation and flashing detail rather than paying extra for impact-rated shingles.
One certified roofer for 270,000 people, and where the others actually are
The headline number on this page is a supply figure, not a quality judgement. Webb County has 269,294 people, 48 damaging hail reports in a decade and a 1997 median housing stock now reaching its first replacement cycle, and exactly one contractor certified in the programme this site is built around. Here is what we found when we went looking for the rest.
They are in the other network, and decisively so. Owens Corning’s own contractor directory returns 11 members inside the city of Laredo, one of which is the certified firm below, so it holds both credentials at once. Eleven against one is not a close call: the dominant manufacturer programme in this market is Owens Corning, and any page built on a single directory will show you a fraction of the certified contractors in the city. We name all of the verifiable ones further down.
But even that network is flat. All 11 Laredo members sit at the lower Preferred tier, and there is no Platinum Preferred contractor anywhere within 100 miles of Laredo. Whatever the top of either programme rewards, it is not reaching this city. The geography is part of the reason: sorted by distance, the next nearest network members outside Laredo are at Roma, 81.4 miles away, and Dilley, 85.3 miles. This is not a market that gets served from a neighbouring metro, because there is no neighbouring metro.
The Texas trade licence has no presence here at all, and that is the starkest finding. A search of RCAT’s licensed-contractor directory from Laredo returns zero licence holders within 150 miles. The search works at that location: an unfiltered member search from the same coordinates returns two Laredo results, ABC Supply and SRS Distribution, both material distributors rather than contractors. The nearest RCAT-licensed roofing contractor is in Edinburg, about 115 miles away. RCAT’s six regional chapters cover Central Texas, Houston, Lubbock, North Texas, the Panhandle and a suspended Abilene chapter; none covers South Texas, the Rio Grande Valley or the border. So the only roofing credential that exists in Texas is held by nobody in this city, and there is no local institution through which anybody would acquire it.
What follows is practical. Your checks in Laredo are the city registration, the permit, the certificate of insurance, and the manufacturer network membership, in that order of reliability. Register and permit are cheap and mandatory: $60 registration, $34 plan check and $50 issuance. The insurance certificate is yours to demand because nobody else will. And because 48 of 49 hail reports here were an inch or larger, ask specifically what the shingle’s impact rating is and get the laboratory label photographed before installation, since Texas insurance credits for impact-resistant roofing depend on that label being present and correct.
Laredo’s roofing market, measured
| Measure | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Webb County population | 269,294; city of Laredo 257,619 | ACS 2020 to 2024 five-year, B01003 |
| Certified contractors in the programme this page ranks | One | Manufacturer directory |
| Owens Corning network members inside the city | 11, all at the lower Preferred tier | Owens Corning contractor directory API |
| Owens Corning Platinum Preferred within 100 miles | None | Owens Corning contractor directory API |
| RCAT licence holders within 150 miles | Zero; the nearest is at Edinburg, about 115 miles | RCAT licensed-contractor directory |
| RCAT regional chapter covering South Texas or the border | None exists | RCAT |
| Nearest network members outside the city | Roma at 81.4 miles, Dilley at 85.3 miles | Owens Corning contractor directory API |
| Hail reports of 1.00 inch or more, 2016 to 2025 | 48, from 49 at all sizes | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Largest hailstone | 3.25 inches, 17 May 2016; NWS recorded homes with holes where hail went through roof or walls | NWS Corpus Christi, NCEI event 635083 |
| Tornadoes, Webb County, 1950 to 2024 | 9 in total, strongest F2 in 1961 and 1971 | Storm Prediction Center |
| Days a year at or above 100 degrees | 79.9, against 14.2 at Longview | NOAA 1991 to 2020 Climate Normals |
| Heat or excessive heat events, 2016 to 2025 | 63, against one tornado | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Median year built | 1997, county and city | ACS 2020 to 2024 five-year, B25035 |
| City general contractor registration | $60 with photo ID, under Ordinance 2025-O-156 | City of Laredo |
| Reroof permit fees | $34 plan check plus $50 issuance | City of Laredo, Ordinances 2019-O-102 and 2021-O-164 |
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database and NWS Corpus Christi narratives; NOAA 1991 to 2020 US Climate Normals and the Applied Climate Information System ThreadEx series; Storm Prediction Center tornado database; Owens Corning contractor directory API; RCAT licensing page and licensed-contractor directory; City of Laredo ordinances and fee schedules, read through the search index because the city’s own pages refused direct requests; Business and Commerce Code section 27.02; US Census Bureau ACS tables B01003, B25003 and B25035.
Three things to confirm before work starts in Laredo
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.
The shape of the Laredo contractor market
1 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Laredo, TX statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 30 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.3. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 272,823, a change of 2.14% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Laredo rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Laredo, 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 1 certified contractor, of whom 0 hold President’s Club standing and 1 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.3. 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: 2026-10-02. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
The questions that come up most in Laredo
Who is the best roofer in Laredo, TX?
How many certified roofing contractors serve Laredo?
1 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Laredo, TX statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Laredo get?
The Laredo, TX statistical area recorded 48 hail reports of 1 inch or larger and 9 of 2 inches or larger between 2016 and 2025 in the NOAA Storm Events Database. The largest hailstone reported measured 3.25 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 one.
What was the worst hailstorm in Laredo in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Laredo, TX statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 3.25 inches, reported near Pescadito on 17 May 2016. That is baseball sized, comfortably past the point where a roof is written off rather than repaired. Across the decade the metro recorded 49 hail reports. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $21.8 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Laredo?
Severe-weather reports in the Laredo, TX statistical area cluster in May, April, March, 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 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 Laredo?
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.
One certified roofer for 270,000 people, and where the others actually are?
The headline number on this page is a supply figure, not a quality judgement. Webb County has 269,294 people, 48 damaging hail reports in a decade and a 1997 median housing stock now reaching its first replacement cycle, and exactly one contractor certified in the programme this site is built around. Here is what we found when we went looking for the rest.
Is Laredo a hard market to find a good roofer in?
Webb County has 269,294 people and one certified roofing contractor. That is the whole list, and one name is not a market, so this page is built differently. The certified firm is assessed below and it is a genuine dual-credential business, holding certification in two manufacturer networks rather than one. Then we name the eleven-strong Owens Corning network inside the city, because the certified pool in Laredo is not empty, it is in the other manufacturer’s programme, and a page built on one directory cannot see it. One thing nobody in this market holds: the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas licence. There are zero licence holders within 150 miles.
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 McAllen, TX, about 120 miles from Laredo
- Best roofers in Corpus Christi, TX, about 142 miles from Laredo
- Best roofers in San Antonio, TX, about 144 miles from Laredo
- Best roofers in Brownsville, TX, another TX metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Austin, TX, another TX metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Evansville, IN, a metro of comparable size
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 Laredo, 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.