Short answer: As of October 2026 The Roofing Brief ranks no roofer in the Santa Fe metro, because GAF’s directory lists no certified roofing contractor in Santa Fe, Española or Los Alamos. Instead this page lists five Santa Fe roofers that hold an active New Mexico Construction Industries Division licence covering roofing, checked on the state register, with their BBB records. Every reroof in New Mexico needs a permit and a decking inspection.
The Roofing Brief searched the GAF certification registry across the principal cities of the Santa Fe, NM 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. Santa Fe’s roofs are written into law: the city’s code defines the old Santa Fe style as a flat roof behind a parapet, historic buildings must keep or replace their roofs in kind, and New Mexico’s own code adds rules for parapet caps, metal-lined canales and a ban on pumice fill. Yet GAF’s directory lists no certified roofer at all in Santa Fe, Española or Los Alamos. New Mexico licenses every roofer and requires a permit and a deck inspection on every reroof. This page ranks no one; instead it lists five Santa Fe roofers checked on the state licence register.
Weather, codes and the Santa Fe housing stock
New Mexico licenses roofing through the Construction Industries Division, and no one may act as a contractor or bid without a licence classified for the work (NMSA 60-13-12). The roofing specialty is GS-21, which takes two years of foreman-level experience; roofing on homes can also be done under the GB-2 Residential or GB-98 General Building classes. Owner-occupants working on their own home are exempt, as is a narrow handyman exemption for small jobs under $7,200 a year.
Unlicensed contracting is a criminal misdemeanour: 90 days in jail or a fine of $300 to $500, or both, for work of $5,000 or less, and six months or a fine of ten percent of the contract, or both, above that. A contractor’s $10,000 bond pays only to cure code violations the division certifies, not to compensate you for poor work, and the contractor must tell you so in writing before residential work begins. New Mexico has no law on insurance deductibles and no post-storm cancellation right.
Every reroof and every roof coating in New Mexico needs a permit and inspections, including a decking inspection once the old roof is off (14.5.2.8 NMAC). The state’s residential code is based on the 2021 International Residential Code, and the City of Santa Fe applies the state codes. A city permit carries a $40 administrative fee plus a fee on value: $69.25 for the first $2,001 plus $14 per $1,000 after, with plan review at half the permit fee.
Across 2016 to 2025 Santa Fe County logged 58 hail reports, up to tennis-ball size at Glorieta in June 2017, 18 thunderstorm wind reports and three weak tornadoes. High wind is more frequent: the Santa Fe zone logged 32 high wind events, 25 of them in spring, and 22 heavy snows. The metro’s median home was built in 1990, and 13.3 percent of its homes are mobile homes.
Santa Fe roofers verified on the state licence register
No roofer qualifies for a ranking in the metro, so none is ranked. These five hold an active New Mexico licence covering roofing, checked on the Construction Industries Division register, and each has a BBB record. They are not scored and we are not recommending them. We left out others, including two Albuquerque firms with Santa Fe addresses and a firm we could not find on the register under its trading name.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| Mike Lopez Roofing, LLC | CID licence 90879 with GS-21 Roofing, licensed since 1975 under an earlier licence; BBB accredited since 1995 at A+, with two complaints answered in three years; flat and pueblo-style roofs, spray foam and TPO. |
| MGM Roofing, Inc. | CID licence 94604 with GS-21 Roofing, licensed since 1993 under an earlier licence; on Taos St; BBB accredited since 2018 at A+, one complaint resolved. |
| Santa Fe Stucco and Roofing, Inc. | CID licence 378362 with GS-21 Roofing and plastering, since 2013; the only Owens Corning Preferred roofer in Santa Fe; BBB accredited since 2013 at A+. Restores parapets as well as roofs. |
| Sangre de Cristo Roof Company, LLC | CID licence 399281 with GS-21 Roofing, since 2019; BBB accredited since 2021 at A+, no complaints; a flat-roofing specialist. |
| Salcido Roofing, Inc. | CID licence 374162, held under the GB-2 Residential class rather than the roofing specialty; BBB accredited since 2004 at A+, no complaints. |
39 inch-plus hail reports and 18 wind reports over Santa Fe
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 Santa Fe, NM statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 58 hail reports, 18 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 3 tornadoes. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $3.3 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
The biggest hail to fall on Santa Fe in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 June 2017 | 2.5 in | Glorieta | Santa Fe |
| 26 June 2017 | 2.0 in | Glorieta | Santa Fe |
| 2 June 2019 | 1.5 in | Santa Fe | Santa Fe |
| 19 June 2024 | 1.5 in | Edgewood | Santa Fe |
| 22 May 2021 | 1.5 in | Glorieta | Santa Fe |
| 26 June 2017 | 1.5 in | Edgewood | Santa Fe |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 26 June 2017 near Glorieta, measured at 2.5 inches. That is hen-egg sized. Two inches is the threshold at which insurers expect functional damage and full replacement claims.
Wind. The strongest thunderstorm gust logged in the metro was 65 knots, about 75 mph, near Edgewood on 11 August 2017. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 3 tornadoes touched down in these counties over the decade, the strongest rated EF0 near Otto on 9 May 2017.
What the National Weather Service wrote about it
The NWS logs a written account of each severe-weather episode. This is its description of the 11 August 2017 event near Edgewood, reproduced verbatim:
Outflow winds from a wet microburst north of Edgewood downed about a dozen power poles. An extended power outage impacted at least 6,300 customers.
That is the kind of damage a roof in this metro has to be specified against, described by the agency that recorded it rather than by a contractor selling the repair.
When it happens. Severe weather reports cluster in May (32), June (20), July (9). The worst years on record were 2021 (19), 2019 (13), 2017 (11). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Santa Fe, 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 Santa Fe. Weight your decision toward wind rating, ventilation and flashing detail rather than paying extra for impact-rated shingles.
Flat roofs behind parapets, written into law
Santa Fe’s code defines the old Santa Fe style, pueblo, pueblo-Spanish and territorial, by its roof: flat with a slight slope, surrounded on at least three sides by a parapet of the same colour and material as the walls, and never carried beyond the walls except over a portal. In the Downtown and Eastside district, rooftop equipment other than chimneys, flues and vents must sit where the parapet hides it from public view.
On buildings the city has declared significant, contributing or landmarks, the existing roof styles and materials must be maintained or replaced in kind. Visible solar collectors, clerestories, decks and mechanical equipment may not be added, and on significant and landmark buildings the parapet may not be raised to hide them. In the wider Historic Review District, pitched roofs are allowed only where they existed in the streetscape before December 1983, and red tile, mansard and folded-plate roofs are not allowed at all.
New Mexico’s state code then rewrites the national rules for exactly these roofs. A plastered parapet needs a seamless waterproof cap over the whole top, lapped over the roof membrane, with no fasteners through its horizontal surface. Every canale or scupper, the projecting drains of a flat roof, must have a metal pan lining running at least six inches inside the parapet and six inches to each side. Pumice and other loose fill are banned from roof assemblies, and any found at a reroof must be removed.
Those details are where flat roofs fail: water pools, finds the joint between parapet and membrane, or backs up at a canale. Wind adds stress in spring, with 32 high wind events in the decade including a 70 mph gust in April 2022, and hail can punch through skylights, as tennis-ball stones did between Glorieta and Pecos in June 2017.
For a Santa Fe homeowner the questions are specific: how the roofer will cap and tie in the parapets, how it will line the canales, whether it will remove any pumice fill, and, on a historic property, whether the city’s preservation staff need to approve the work. Check its licence classification on the state register, and make sure it pulls the permit, since the decking inspection is the one chance anyone else has to see the roof deck.
Santa Fe’s roof rules
| Item | Figure or rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Old Santa Fe style roof | Flat, behind a parapet on at least three sides | SFCC 14-5.2(E) |
| Historic buildings | Roof styles and materials kept or replaced in kind | SFCC 14-5.2(D)(6) |
| Parapet cap | Seamless waterproof cap lapped over the membrane | 14.7.3.17 NMAC, R903.3 |
| Canales and scuppers | Metal pan lining at least six inches each way | 14.7.3.17 NMAC, R905.9.5 |
| Pumice fill | Banned; removed at reroof | 14.7.3.17 NMAC, R904.5 and R908.3 |
| Reroof permit and inspection | Required; decking inspection after tear-off | 14.5.2.8 NMAC |
| State licence | GS-21 Roofing, GB-2 or GB-98 | NMSA 60-13-12; 14.6.6.9 NMAC |
| Active roofing licences in Santa Fe | 47 of 115 records | CID register, 8 October 2026 |
| High wind events, 2016 to 2025 | 32, 25 in spring | NOAA NCEI Storm Events, zone rows |
| Certified GAF roofers, Santa Fe | 0 | GAF directory, 8 October 2026 |
Source: City of Santa Fe Code chapters 7 and 14; New Mexico Administrative Code 14.5.2, 14.6.6 and 14.7.3; NMSA 60-13; New Mexico Construction Industries Division licence register; NICB State Roofing Contractor Laws Compendium; NWS Albuquerque narratives and NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (Santa Fe County and zone rows); Owens Corning contractor locator; BBB business profiles; US Census Bureau ACS 2024.
How to tell a Santa Fe roofer’s claims from their record
Licensing is required in NM. New Mexico licenses roofing at state level through the Construction Industries Division, and no one may act as a contractor or submit a bid without a licence classified for the work (NMSA 60-13-12). The roofing specialty is GS-21, which requires two years of foreman-level experience; roofing may also be done under the GB-2 Residential or GB-98 General Building classifications. NMSA 60-13-3 lists 18 exemptions, including owner-occupants working on their own single-family home and a narrow handyman exemption for casual, minor work under $7,200 a year, one project at a time, with no advertising and an annual declaration.
A contractor’s bond is $10,000 and its payments can only be used to cure code violations the division certifies, not to compensate a homeowner for poor work or a contractor’s default; the law requires the contractor to tell you so in a division-approved disclosure before residential work starts. Every reroof and roof coating needs a building permit and inspections, including a decking inspection after tear-off (14.5.2.8 NMAC). New Mexico has no statute on insurance deductibles and no post-storm cancellation right.
Check here: NM Construction Industries Division licence lookup. Unlicensed contracting is a criminal offence in New Mexico, not merely a civil one: for work of $5,000 or less, 90 days in county jail or a fine of $300 to $500, or both; above $5,000, six months or a fine of ten percent of the contract value, or both, doubled for a second conviction. Ask for the CID licence number and classification, and check that it actually covers roofing.
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 Santa Fe market behind this ranking
0 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Santa Fe, NM 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 157,765, a change of 1.9% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Santa Fe rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Santa Fe, NM 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. Good and bad findings are published together, and no contractor paid for a place here.
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: 2026-10-08. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
The questions that come up most in Santa Fe
Who are the best roofers in Santa Fe, NM?
No manufacturer-certified roofer appears in GAF’s directory for Santa Fe, so The Roofing Brief ranks none. It checked five Santa Fe roofers on the New Mexico licence register instead: Mike Lopez Roofing, MGM Roofing, Santa Fe Stucco and Roofing, Sangre de Cristo Roof Company and Salcido Roofing, each with an active licence and a BBB record. Check any roofer’s licence and classification on the state register, and make sure it pulls the permit.
How many certified roofing contractors serve Santa Fe?
0 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Santa Fe, NM statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Santa Fe get?
The Santa Fe, NM statistical area recorded 39 hail reports of 1 inch or larger and 2 of 2 inches or larger between 2016 and 2025 in the NOAA Storm Events Database. The largest hailstone reported measured 2.5 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 Santa Fe in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Santa Fe, NM statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 2.5 inches, reported near Glorieta on 26 June 2017. That is hen-egg sized. Two inches is the threshold at which insurers expect functional damage and full replacement claims. Across the decade the metro recorded 58 hail reports. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $3.3 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Santa Fe?
Severe-weather reports in the Santa Fe, NM statistical area cluster in May, June, July, on the NOAA record for 2016 to 2025. Scheduling discretionary work away from that window tends to get you a better crew and a faster start, because nobody is juggling emergency callouts.
Do roofers need a licence in NM?
New Mexico licenses roofing at state level through the Construction Industries Division, and no one may act as a contractor or submit a bid without a licence classified for the work (NMSA 60-13-12). The roofing specialty is GS-21, which requires two years of foreman-level experience; roofing may also be done under the GB-2 Residential or GB-98 General Building classifications. NMSA 60-13-3 lists 18 exemptions, including owner-occupants working on their own single-family home and a narrow handyman exemption for casual, minor work under $7,200 a year, one project at a time, with no advertising and an annual declaration. A contractor’s bond is $10,000 and its payments can only be used to cure code violations the division certifies, not to compensate a homeowner for poor work or a contractor’s default; the law requires the contractor to tell you so in a division-approved disclosure before residential work starts. Every reroof and roof coating needs a building permit and inspections, including a decking inspection after tear-off (14.5.2.8 NMAC). New Mexico has no statute on insurance deductibles and no post-storm cancellation right.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Santa Fe?
Unlicensed contracting is a criminal offence in New Mexico, not merely a civil one: for work of $5,000 or less, 90 days in county jail or a fine of $300 to $500, or both; above $5,000, six months or a fine of ten percent of the contract value, or both, doubled for a second conviction. Ask for the CID licence number and classification, and check that it actually covers roofing.
Flat roofs behind parapets, written into law?
Santa Fe’s code defines the old Santa Fe style, pueblo, pueblo-Spanish and territorial, by its roof: flat with a slight slope, surrounded on at least three sides by a parapet of the same colour and material as the walls, and never carried beyond the walls except over a portal. In the Downtown and Eastside district, rooftop equipment other than chimneys, flues and vents must sit where the parapet hides it from public view.
Is Santa Fe a hard market to find a good roofer in?
Santa Fe’s roofs are written into law: the city’s code defines the old Santa Fe style as a flat roof behind a parapet, historic buildings must keep or replace their roofs in kind, and New Mexico’s own code adds rules for parapet caps, metal-lined canales and a ban on pumice fill. Yet GAF’s directory lists no certified roofer at all in Santa Fe, Española or Los Alamos. New Mexico licenses every roofer and requires a permit and a deck inspection on every reroof. This page ranks no one; instead it lists five Santa Fe roofers checked on the state licence register.
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 Albuquerque, NM, about 54 miles from Santa Fe
- Best roofers in Pueblo, CO, about 195 miles from Santa Fe
- Best roofers in Colorado Springs, CO, about 231 miles from Santa Fe
- Best roofers in Las Cruces, NM, another NM metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Bangor, ME, 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 Santa Fe, NM: 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.