Short answer: As of October 2026 no roofer qualifies for our certified ranking in the Lewiston-Auburn metro, because GAF’s directory returns no certified roofing contractor for either Lewiston or Auburn. So The Roofing Brief ranks none here. Maine licenses no roofers, so instead this page lists five local roofers we checked against the Maine Secretary of State’s business records and BBB files.
The Roofing Brief searched the GAF certification registry across the principal cities of the Lewiston-Auburn, ME statistical area. No roofing contractor based inside the metro clears the evidence floor this ranking applies, which is manufacturer certification plus at least five independent customer reviews, so this page ranks nobody rather than pad a list. What it does instead is set out the contractors we could verify individually against the credential that actually exists here. Lewiston is a tenement city under a heavy snow load: the city designs roofs for an 80 psf ground snow load with an ice barrier required, fewer than half its homes are detached houses, almost half are rented, and nearly a third were built before 1940. Its storm record is written in winter storms, not hail. Maine licenses no roofers and GAF’s directory lists no certified roofer in either city, so none is ranked.
Wind, terrain and the Lewiston housing stock
Maine does not license roofers or general contractors; the Attorney General says plainly that trades such as roofing are not licensed or regulated. What the state does require is a written contract for any home construction or repair job over $3,000, signed by both sides, with start and completion dates, the price, a description of materials and a down payment of no more than one third. Breaking the Act is evidence of an unfair trade practice.
Door-to-door roofers from out of town need a state transient seller licence, and you can cancel a home solicitation sale until midnight of the third business day. Securing a repair contract by deception, or by damaging the property first, is the crime of home repair fraud. A 2025 bill to license residential contractors, LD 1226, died in the Senate in April 2026, and Maine has no law against rebating your insurance deductible.
Both cities must enforce the state building code, now based on the 2021 international codes. Lewiston’s design criteria set an 80 psf ground snow load, a 115 mph design wind speed and a required ice barrier, and the city says no construction may start until a permit is issued, doubling the fee if work starts early. Neither city says outright whether a like-for-like reroof needs a permit, so ask Planning and Code Enforcement first.
Lewiston’s housing is old and dense: the city’s median home dates from 1957, twenty years older than Maine’s, 31.6 percent of its homes and 38.1 percent of Auburn’s predate 1940, and 48.8 percent of Lewiston’s homes are rented, against about a quarter statewide. The fire department runs tenement inspections that cover porches and fire escapes.
Lewiston-Auburn roofers checked against Maine business records
GAF lists no certified roofer here and Maine licenses none, so none is ranked. Each firm below has a clean BBB file and, where it is a company, a Maine Secretary of State record in good standing. They are not scored and we are not recommending them.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| Straight Line Roofing & Siding, Inc. | Owens Corning Preferred; corporation in good standing since 2000, business founded 1989 per its site and BBB; BBB A+, not accredited, no complaints. |
| Darling & Son’s Roofing | Auburn roofing-first sole proprietorship; BBB accredited since 2012, A+, no complaints; asphalt, metal, rubber and copper roofing. |
| Above and Beyond, LLC | Lewiston LLC in good standing since 2010; BBB accredited since 2011, A+, no complaints; shingle, metal and EPDM roofing. |
| Brunswick Steel, Inc. | Auburn steel roofing specialist, corporation in good standing since 2004; BBB accredited since 2004, A+, no complaints. |
| NorthEast Roofing & Waterproofing LLC | Owens Corning Preferred; Auburn LLC in good standing; BBB accredited since 2024, A+, no complaints; a young firm started in 2023. |
Roof replacement and repair in Lewiston, ME
Short answer: GAF’s directory lists no certified roofer in Lewiston or Auburn and Maine licenses no roofers, so none is ranked here. Firms with clean BBB files include Straight Line Roofing & Siding, Darling & Son’s Roofing, Above and Beyond and Brunswick Steel, though we have not scored them. The rule that matters most: any home repair contract over $3,000 must be written and signed, with a down payment of no more than one third.
Winter, not hail, writes Lewiston’s storm record. NOAA files winter weather by forecast zone, and from 2016 to 2025 the Androscoggin zone logged 23 winter storms, 20 heavy snow events and two blizzards; on 23 March 2024 snow reached 20 inches near Livermore Falls before freezing rain left up to a third of an inch of ice. Wind arrives with those storms: about 70 mph in the zone on 30 October 2017 and a 62 mph gust measured in Auburn on 18 December 2023. Summer hail is episodic, with 14 county reports in the decade, half of them on a single afternoon in March 2016.
Both cities must enforce the state building code, now based on the 2021 international codes, and Lewiston’s design criteria set an 80 psf ground snow load, a 115 mph design wind speed and a required ice barrier. Under IRC R908, which Maine adopts without changes, a replacement tears off down to the deck, and a recover is not allowed over a water soaked or deteriorated roof, over slate, clay, cement or asbestos cement tile, or over two or more existing layers. Lewiston says no construction may start until a permit is issued, doubling the fee if work starts early, but neither city says outright whether a like-for-like reroof needs one, so ask Planning and Code Enforcement first.
The housing makes those rules matter. Lewiston’s median home dates from 1957, 31.6 percent of its homes and 38.1 percent of Auburn’s predate 1940, only 43.4 percent of Lewiston’s units are detached houses and 48.8 percent are rented, so landlords make many roof decisions on mill-era tenements. On a multi-unit building, confirm the ice barrier is included and ask how the roofer will handle any low-slope section. Maine has no law against rebating your insurance deductible and no Maine statute or regulation requiring insurers to match undamaged roofing was found.
Maine does not license roofers or general contractors, and LD 1226, a bill to license residential contractors, died in the Senate in April 2026. The protections are the written contract required for jobs over $3,000, with start and completion dates, the price, a description of materials and a down payment capped at one third, and the right to cancel a home solicitation sale until midnight of the third business day. Out-of-town door-to-door roofers need a state transient seller licence. Among local firms, Brunswick Steel is an Auburn steel roofing specialist, Darling & Son’s Roofing lists asphalt, metal, rubber and copper roofing, and Above and Beyond lists shingle, metal and EPDM.
| Rule | What applies | Source |
|---|---|---|
| State roofing licence | None; Maine does not license roofers or general contractors. | Maine Attorney General |
| Written contract | Required for any residential construction or repair job over $3,000, signed by both sides, with the work, materials, price and payment schedule; down payment no more than one third. | 10 M.R.S. 1487 |
| Penalty for breaking the Act | Civil forfeiture of $100 to $1,000; the breach is prima facie evidence of an unfair trade practice. | 10 M.R.S. 1490 |
| Door-to-door sellers | Transient sellers of home repair services need a state licence; a home solicitation sale can be cancelled until midnight of the third business day. | 32 M.R.S. 14504; Maine Attorney General |
| Design criteria | 80 psf ground snow load, 115 mph design wind speed, ice barrier required. | City of Lewiston design criteria |
| Permit | No construction may start until a permit is issued; the fee doubles if work starts early. Ask whether a like-for-like reroof needs one. | City of Lewiston Planning and Code Enforcement |
| 25 percent rule | Maine has no 25 percent roofing rule; the code adopts IRC Chapter 9 without changes, so R908 tear-off and recover limits apply. | 16-642 CMR Chapter 5 |
Related guides: the 25% roofing rule in Maine and every other state; how to decide between roof repair and replacement; how to read and compare a roof replacement quote; how to compare roof repair quotes; what homeowners insurance covers on a roof.
The 38 wind reports that shape a Lewiston 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 Lewiston-Auburn, ME statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 14 hail reports, 38 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 0 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 Lewiston in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 March 2016 | 1.75 in | Lewiston | Androscoggin |
| 24 August 2020 | 1.5 in | Shy Corner | Androscoggin |
| 17 March 2016 | 1.25 in | Poland | Androscoggin |
| 1 June 2017 | 1.0 in | Greene | Androscoggin |
| 14 August 2024 | 1.0 in | Leeds | Androscoggin |
| 17 March 2016 | 1.0 in | Androscoggin | Androscoggin |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 17 March 2016 near Lewiston, measured at 1.75 inches. That is ping-pong-ball sized, enough to bruise asphalt shingles and shorten a roof’s life without necessarily looking dramatic from the ground.
Wind. The strongest thunderstorm gust logged in the metro was 52 knots, about 60 mph, near North Livermore on 22 May 2022. 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 22 May 2022 event near North Livermore, reproduced verbatim:
Convective outflow damaging winds caused by a severe thunderstorms downed multiple trees near the intersection of Crash and Goding Rd, shingle roof damage was also reported in Livermore.
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 August (13), July (12), September (9). The worst years on record were 2016 (12), 2023 (9), 2018 (8). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Lewiston, 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 Lewiston. Weight your decision toward wind rating, ventilation and flashing detail rather than paying extra for impact-rated shingles.
A tenement city under an 80 psf snow load
Only 43.4 percent of Lewiston’s 17,105 housing units are detached houses, against 70 percent across Maine. The rest are largely two- to nine-unit buildings, many of them the mill-era tenements that line the city’s older streets, and 48.8 percent of the city’s homes are rented, so landlords make a large share of roof decisions.
Those roofs sit under one of the heavier design loads we have seen: Lewiston’s criteria set an 80 psf ground snow load, an ice barrier at the eaves, a 115 mph design wind speed and severe weathering. Records at the Lewiston cooperative weather station averaged about 68 inches of snow a season from 1971 to 2001, and the record season of 1970 to 1971 brought 144.9 inches.
NOAA files winter weather by forecast zone, so county storm counts miss most of it. From 2016 to 2025 the Androscoggin zone logged 23 winter storms, 20 heavy snow events and two blizzards. On 23 March 2024 snow fell at more than an inch an hour, reaching 20 inches near Livermore Falls before freezing rain coated lines with up to a third of an inch of ice.
Wind comes with the winter storms. On 30 October 2017 a storm that absorbed the remnants of Tropical Storm Philippe gusted to about 70 mph in the Androscoggin zone, and on 18 December 2023 a trained spotter in Auburn measured a 62 mph gust as about 60 percent of customers lost power and the Androscoggin River rose to moderate flood. Summer hail is episodic: half the county’s 14 hail reports fell on a single afternoon in March 2016.
For a tenement owner the practical checks are the eaves and the structure: confirm the ice barrier is included, ask how the roofer will handle a low-slope roof on a multi-unit building, and get the written contract the state requires before any money changes hands, with the down payment no more than a third.
Lewiston’s roof design criteria and winter record
| Item | Figure or record | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Ground snow load | 80 psf | City of Lewiston design criteria |
| Ice barrier underlayment | Required | City of Lewiston design criteria |
| Design wind speed | 115 mph | City of Lewiston design criteria |
| Seasonal snowfall, 1971 to 2001 | About 68 inches | NOAA cooperative station, Lewiston |
| Winter storms and heavy snow, 2016 to 2025 | 23 winter storms, 20 heavy snow, 2 blizzards | NOAA NCEI, Androscoggin zone |
| 30 Oct 2017 storm | About 70 mph gust | NOAA NCEI zone record |
| 18 Dec 2023 windstorm | 62 mph gust in Auburn; 60 percent without power | National Weather Service |
| Detached houses, Lewiston | 43.4 percent of units | ACS 2020 to 2024 |
| Homes rented, Lewiston | 48.8 percent | ACS 2020 to 2024 |
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database bulk files (Androscoggin County and zone, 2016 to 2025, our recount); National Weather Service narratives; NOAA cooperative station records via ACIS; 10 M.R.S. 1487 to 1490 and 9724; 9-A M.R.S. 3-502; 17-A M.R.S. 908; 32 M.R.S. 14501 to 14504; Maine Legislature LD 1226 docket; Maine Attorney General consumer guidance; City of Lewiston design criteria, permit and fee pages; City of Auburn master fee schedule; Maine Secretary of State business records; Owens Corning contractor locator; BBB business profiles; US Census Bureau ACS 2020 to 2024.
How to check a Lewiston roofer in ten minutes
There is no state roofing licence in ME. Maine does not license roofing contractors, or general contractors, at state level. There is no exam and no state board with authority to discipline a roofer; the one state licence in this area covers transient door-to-door sellers of home repair services with no permanent place of business in the town, who must be licensed under 32 M.R.S. 14504. What Maine does require is a written contract: under the Home Construction Contracts Act any residential construction, remodelling or repair contract for more than $3,000 must be in writing (10 M.R.S. 1487).
The written contract must set out the work, the materials, the price and the payment schedule, and the down payment may not exceed one third of the price. A contractor who breaks the Act faces a civil forfeiture of $100 to $1,000, and the breach is prima facie evidence of an unfair trade practice (10 M.R.S. 1490). The parties can contract out of these requirements only after the contractor has specifically explained the homeowner’s rights under the Act (1489).
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: Maine Attorney General, home construction and repair. A 2025 bill to license residential contractors, LD 1226, passed the House but died in the Senate when the Legislature adjourned on 29 April 2026, so Maine still licenses no residential contractors. There is no general municipal contractor licence either; the written contract and the contractor’s own record are the formal protections a Maine homeowner has.
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 Lewiston contractor market
0 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Lewiston-Auburn, ME statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 0 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.55. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 115,272, a change of 3.72% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Lewiston rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Lewiston-Auburn, ME 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 0 certified contractors, of whom 0 hold President’s Club standing and 0 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.55. No contractor cleared the floor, so the alternatives listed above were instead 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: 2026-10-18. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
What Lewiston homeowners want to know
Who are the best roofers in Lewiston, ME?
No Lewiston-Auburn roofer qualifies for our certified ranking, so The Roofing Brief ranks none. With no state roofing licence to check, it verified five local roofers against Maine business records and BBB files instead: Straight Line Roofing & Siding, Darling & Son’s Roofing, Above and Beyond, Brunswick Steel and NorthEast Roofing. In Maine any home repair contract over $3,000 must be in writing with the down payment capped at one third.
What is the 25% rule for roofing in Maine?
Maine has no 25 percent roofing rule. The Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code adopts the 2021 IRC for one and two family homes, including Chapter 9 without changes, so a replacement tears off down to the deck and a recover is not allowed over two or more existing layers. Municipalities of 4,000 or more residents must enforce the code, and permits are required only where a municipal ordinance requires them.
Do I need a permit to replace a roof in Lewiston, Maine?
Lewiston says no construction may start until a permit is issued and doubles the fee if work starts early. Neither Lewiston nor Auburn says outright whether a like-for-like reroof needs a permit, so ask Planning and Code Enforcement before work begins.
Who does roof repair in Lewiston?
GAF lists no certified roofer in Lewiston or Auburn, so none is ranked. Firms with clean BBB files include Straight Line Roofing & Siding, Darling & Son’s Roofing in Auburn, Above and Beyond in Lewiston, Brunswick Steel, a steel roofing specialist, and NorthEast Roofing & Waterproofing, a young firm started in 2023. We have not scored them and are not recommending them.
How do I know if a roofer in Lewiston is good?
Maine licenses no roofers, so the formal protections are the written contract and the contractor’s own record. Check its BBB file and, for a company, its Maine Secretary of State record, and get the written contract the state requires before any money changes hands, with the down payment no more than a third.
How many certified roofing contractors serve Lewiston?
0 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Lewiston-Auburn, ME statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Lewiston get?
The Lewiston-Auburn, ME statistical area recorded 14 hail reports of 1 inch or larger and 0 of 2 inches or larger between 2016 and 2025 in the NOAA Storm Events Database. The largest hailstone reported measured 1.75 inches.
Did any contractor pay to appear on this list?
No. The Roofing Brief takes no placement fees, no lead fees and no affiliate commission from any roofing contractor. Ranking comes entirely from the published formula applied to public registry data, followed by an individual research pass on every verified alternative listed.
What was the worst hailstorm in Lewiston in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Lewiston-Auburn, ME statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 1.75 inches, reported near Lewiston on 17 March 2016. That is ping-pong-ball sized, enough to bruise asphalt shingles and shorten a roof’s life without necessarily looking dramatic from the ground. Across the decade the metro recorded 14 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 Lewiston?
Severe-weather reports in the Lewiston-Auburn, ME statistical area cluster in August, July, September, 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 ME?
Maine does not license roofing contractors, or general contractors, at state level. There is no exam and no state board with authority to discipline a roofer; the one state licence in this area covers transient door-to-door sellers of home repair services with no permanent place of business in the town, who must be licensed under 32 M.R.S. 14504. What Maine does require is a written contract: under the Home Construction Contracts Act any residential construction, remodelling or repair contract for more than $3,000 must be in writing (10 M.R.S. 1487). The written contract must set out the work, the materials, the price and the payment schedule, and the down payment may not exceed one third of the price. A contractor who breaks the Act faces a civil forfeiture of $100 to $1,000, and the breach is prima facie evidence of an unfair trade practice (10 M.R.S. 1490). The parties can contract out of these requirements only after the contractor has specifically explained the homeowner’s rights under the Act (1489).
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Lewiston?
A 2025 bill to license residential contractors, LD 1226, passed the House but died in the Senate when the Legislature adjourned on 29 April 2026, so Maine still licenses no residential contractors. There is no general municipal contractor licence either; the written contract and the contractor’s own record are the formal protections a Maine homeowner has.
A tenement city under an 80 psf snow load?
Only 43.4 percent of Lewiston’s 17,105 housing units are detached houses, against 70 percent across Maine. The rest are largely two- to nine-unit buildings, many of them the mill-era tenements that line the city’s older streets, and 48.8 percent of the city’s homes are rented, so landlords make a large share of roof decisions.
Is Lewiston a hard market to find a good roofer in?
Lewiston is a tenement city under a heavy snow load: the city designs roofs for an 80 psf ground snow load with an ice barrier required, fewer than half its homes are detached houses, almost half are rented, and nearly a third were built before 1940. Its storm record is written in winter storms, not hail. Maine licenses no roofers and GAF’s directory lists no certified roofer in either city, so none is ranked.
Is wind or hail the bigger risk to a roof in Lewiston?
Wind, by a wide margin. The Lewiston-Auburn, ME statistical area logged 38 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports against 14 hail reports of an inch or more between 2016 and 2025. Wind damage shows up at the rake, ridge and edge rather than across the field of the roof, so the fastening schedule and edge detail matter more here than the impact rating of the shingle.
Roofer rankings for other metros
The Roofing Brief scores certified roofing contractors in U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan areas on the same formula.
- Best roofers in Portland, ME, about 32 miles from Lewiston
- Best roofers in Bangor, ME, about 85 miles from Lewiston
- Best roofers in Manchester, NH, about 99 miles from Lewiston
- Best roofers in Anniston, AL, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Longview, WA, a metro of comparable size
See the full index of 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 Lewiston, ME: 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.