Short answer: As of October 2026, the one highest-scoring roofing contractors in the St. George, UT metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are Skyline Roofing Inc (73.8). All of them carry a verifiable manufacturer certification, every rating here was cross-checked against an independent record, and no money changed hands for any placement.
The Roofing Brief scored 1 certified roofing contractors serving the St. George metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top one individually to confirm its record. St George is among the fastest-growing metros in the country, and nearly a third of its homes were built since 2010, so many roofs are reaching their first replacement together. Utah licenses roofers, but entry is easy: the S280 roofing licence needs no exam and no experience. The storm risk here is monsoon flash flooding and desert heat rather than hail. Only one certified firm with five or more reviews appears in the directory for Washington County, so one is ranked, and five more local roofers are listed for comparison.
What actually ages a St. George roof
Utah licenses roofers as specialty contractors under the S280 Roofing classification, covering shingles, tile, slate, shakes and membranes. Utah Code 58-55-302 is explicit that a specialty licence needs no division exam and no work experience: the applicant completes a 25-hour course, files proof of workers’ compensation and liability insurance, and registers with the state. Since 30 March 2026 the minimum liability cover has been $1,000,000 per incident and $3,000,000 in total, ten times the old figure. The state’s licence lookup sits behind a captcha, so ask the roofer for the number and check it yourself.
Utah’s Residence Lien Recovery Fund protects homeowners from a particular risk: if you contracted in writing with a licensed contractor and paid in full, an unpaid subcontractor or supplier cannot keep a lien on your home and must claim against the fund instead. It does not pay for bad workmanship. Since 2018 it has been funded only by fees and recoveries, and the state must report each year on whether it should be repealed, which is another reason to hire licensed.
Utah also regulates the insurance-funded roof. Utah Code 13-50-302 bars a residential contractor from rebating any part of your deductible; any contract paid from insurance must carry a capitalised notice saying so, and no payment may be made until you have signed it and it has gone to the insurer. You may cancel within five business days of a written claim denial, with payments refunded within ten business days. The 2021 International Residential Code with Utah’s amendments is in force, and St George’s permit fees run on a valuation scale, about $321 at $20,000.
Hail and wind barely register. Across 2016 to 2025 Washington County logged 7 hail reports, the largest 1.75 inches at Springdale, and 29 thunderstorm wind reports, against 110 flash floods. Heat is the routine stress: the St George station averages 63 days a year at 100 degrees or more and still 62 nights at or below freezing. The metro’s median home dates from 2003, and 6.9 percent of its housing is held as second homes, more than twice the national share.
The one certified roofer ranked in St. George, UT
Scored 2026-10-05. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for St. George is 5.0, across a pool of 1 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skyline Roofing Inc | 73.8 | Certified | 5.0 (20) | 5.0 | not published | Hurricane, UT |
1. Skyline Roofing Inc — TRB Score 73.8
Skyline Roofing Inc is based in Hurricane, UT, led by Adam Stout, President (BBB), Not accredited; not rated; no complaints, and holds Certified standing on the GAF certification registry.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 12 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 40.0 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 15.0 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 6.8 | 10 |
| Total | 73.8 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Not accredited and not rated, business start 17 January 2007, president Adam Stout, no complaints and no reviews.. BBB business profile
- Skyline Roofing, Inc., an active Utah corporation based in Hurricane.. Utah Division of Corporations via OpenCorporates
What they actually do. Roofing.
Why it ranks here. The only certified roofer in Washington County with five or more reviews: a perfect 5.0 across 20, from an active Utah corporation trading since 2007 in Hurricane and La Verkin, about 13 miles from St George.
Best fit for: Hurricane, La Verkin and east Washington County homeowners.
What we would want clarified. The thinnest independent record of any firm we have ranked: we found no website and so no published service area, BBB has no rating or reviews on file, and Utah’s licence lookup blocked us, so its S280 licence is unverified. Ask for the licence number and the new liability certificate before signing. It is a different company from Stout Roofing of St George, and no source links them. Certification tier and reviews are unverified. 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 (435) 635-3172, which is the registry’s contact line and is often a directory tracking number rather than the contractor’s own: take the number from the company’s own website and compare the two.
Other roofers serving St George
Only one certified firm is ranked here. These five are based in or beside St George and hold BBB accreditation or a place in Owens Corning’s contractor network. They are not scored and we are not recommending them; Utah’s licence lookup blocked us, so confirm each one’s S280 licence yourself.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| Hirschi Roofing | BBB accredited since December 1998 at A+, the longest accreditation we found in the metro, trading since 1993, on East Commerce Drive in St George; residential and commercial including single-ply, coatings and metal. |
| Stout Roofing, Inc. | Founded 1998 and headquartered on North 600 West in St George; tile, metal, shingle and flat roofing; BBB accredited only since November 2025, with two complaints closed in three years. No known link to the ranked firm. |
| RoofTek LLC | Top tier on the Owens Corning locator, on South 400 West in central St George; no BBB profile found. |
| Rio Roofing, LLC | Owens Corning Preferred in Washington, Utah; BBB accredited since December 2025 at A+, trading since 2022. |
| Northridge Roofing & Exteriors | Owens Corning Preferred in St George, offering shingle, metal, tile and low-slope; 13 reviews on the locator averaging 4.15; no BBB profile found. |
35 severe weather reports in a decade, and why that matters in St. George
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 St. George, UT statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 7 hail reports, 29 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 1 tornado. 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 St. George in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2016 | 1.75 in | Springdale | Washington |
| 13 September 2023 | 1.0 in | Rockville | Washington |
| 14 August 2021 | 1.0 in | Washington | Washington |
| 22 August 2022 | 1.0 in | Washington | Washington |
| 24 July 2021 | 1.0 in | Veyo | Washington |
| 10 August 2016 | 0.88 in | Bloomington | Washington |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 10 August 2016 near Springdale, 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 78 knots, about 90 mph, near St George on 20 September 2023. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 1 tornado touched down in these counties over the decade.
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 20 September 2023 event near St George, reproduced verbatim:
Social media photos showed a large tree snapped in half in the St. George area. Exact location is unknown. Time estimated.
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 July (13), August (11), September (5). The worst years on record were 2021 (9), 2016 (6), 2023 (6). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in St. George, 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 St. George. Weight your decision toward wind rating, ventilation and flashing detail rather than paying extra for impact-rated shingles.
Sun, monsoon and growth
In the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimates St George was the eighth fastest-growing metro in the United States, adding 5,239 people in a year, and the only Western metro in the top ten. Between 2020 and 2025 it grew 18.5 percent, from 180,284 to 213,670, the fourth fastest of 387 metros. Thirty percent of its housing was built in 2010 or later.
That growth sets the roofing calendar. A wave of homes built in the 2000s and 2010s is now reaching the age at which underlayment fails under desert sun, and St George’s climate is hard on it: an average of 63 days a year at or above 100 degrees, July highs near 102, and 62 nights a year at or below freezing, so roofs cycle between extremes.
Rain is scarce, about nine inches a year, but it arrives in bursts. August, the monsoon month, averages twice July’s rainfall. On 23 August 2020 the St George observer measured two inches in two hours, which NOAA’s narrative puts at roughly a 200-year recurrence. The Santa Clara River rose from 3 to 1,586 cubic feet per second in three hours, Interstate 15 closed in both directions, and flooding reached apartment complexes and basements, with about $5.4 million of public and private damage. In July 2018 a flash flood damaged 20 homes in Dammeron Valley alone.
Hail is uncommon but not absent. On 13 September 2023 quarter-size hail fell in Hildale for about ten minutes and piled up to three inches deep in places.
The combination puts weight on the homeowner’s own checks. A licence that needs no exam proves insurance and registration, not skill, so ask for the S280 number, confirm the new $1 million liability certificate with the insurer, and ask how the roofer seals flashings and valleys against short, intense monsoon downpours.
What shapes a St George roof, and what Utah lets you check
| Item | Figure or rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Population growth, 2020 to 2025 | 18.5 percent, fourth fastest of 387 metros | Census Bureau Vintage 2025 |
| Homes built 2010 or later | 30.1 percent | ACS 2020 to 2024, B25034 |
| Days at or above 100 degrees | 63.1 a year | NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals |
| Nights at or below freezing | 62.5 a year | NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals |
| Flash floods vs hail reports, 2016 to 2025 | 110 vs 7 | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| 23 August 2020 rainfall | 2.00 inches in two hours, about a 200-year event | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Roofing licence | S280; no exam, no experience; 25-hour course | Utah Code 58-55-302 |
| Minimum liability insurance | $1,000,000 per incident, $3,000,000 total, from 30 March 2026 | Utah Admin. Code R156-55a-302d |
| Deductible rebate | Prohibited | Utah Code 13-50-302 |
| Cancellation after a claim denial | Five business days | Utah Code 13-50-202 |
Source: US Census Bureau Vintage 2025 metro estimates and ACS 2020 to 2024; NOAA 1991 to 2020 climate normals for St George; NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database; Utah Code 58-55, 13-50, 38-11 and 15A-2; Utah Administrative Code R156-55a; City of St George building fee sheet.
How to tell a St. George roofer’s claims from their record
Licensing is required in UT. Utah requires a roofing contractor licence from the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing under the S280 Roofing classification, which covers asphalt, pitch, tar, felt, shakes, shingles, tile, slate and membrane systems.
An S280 requires a 25-hour pre-licence course but no division exam and no work experience. Since 30 March 2026, Utah Admin. Code R156-55a-302d has required general liability insurance of at least $1,000,000 per incident and $3,000,000 in total, up from $100,000 and $300,000, plus an EIN, state registrations and either workers compensation coverage or a formal waiver. An S280 holder may not subcontract work outside the roofing scope except electrical work to a licensed E200 or E201 contractor. Utah Code 13-50-302 bars a residential contractor from rebating any part of an insurance deductible.
Check here: Utah DOPL Construction Business Registry. Utah requires two credentials to be checked, not one: the contractor licence itself and the Construction Business Registry entry. Verify both.
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 deep the St. George certified market really is
1 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the St. George, UT statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 20 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 5.0. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 207,943, a change of 15.34% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these St. George rankings were produced
Every contractor in the St. George, UT 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 0 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 5.0. The top one were then 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: 2026-10-05. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
The questions that come up most in St. George
Who is the best roofer in St. George, UT?
How many certified roofing contractors serve St. George?
1 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the St. George, UT statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does St. George get?
The St. George, UT statistical area recorded 5 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 the top one.
What was the worst hailstorm in St. George in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the St. George, UT statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 1.75 inches, reported near Springdale on 10 August 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 7 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 St. George?
Severe-weather reports in the St. George, UT statistical area cluster in July, August, September, 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 UT?
Utah requires a roofing contractor licence from the Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing under the S280 Roofing classification, which covers asphalt, pitch, tar, felt, shakes, shingles, tile, slate and membrane systems. An S280 requires a 25-hour pre-licence course but no division exam and no work experience. Since 30 March 2026, Utah Admin. Code R156-55a-302d has required general liability insurance of at least $1,000,000 per incident and $3,000,000 in total, up from $100,000 and $300,000, plus an EIN, state registrations and either workers compensation coverage or a formal waiver. An S280 holder may not subcontract work outside the roofing scope except electrical work to a licensed E200 or E201 contractor. Utah Code 13-50-302 bars a residential contractor from rebating any part of an insurance deductible.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in St. George?
Utah requires two credentials to be checked, not one: the contractor licence itself and the Construction Business Registry entry. Verify both.
Sun, monsoon and growth?
In the Census Bureau’s 2025 estimates St George was the eighth fastest-growing metro in the United States, adding 5,239 people in a year, and the only Western metro in the top ten. Between 2020 and 2025 it grew 18.5 percent, from 180,284 to 213,670, the fourth fastest of 387 metros. Thirty percent of its housing was built in 2010 or later.
Is St. George a hard market to find a good roofer in?
St George is among the fastest-growing metros in the country, and nearly a third of its homes were built since 2010, so many roofs are reaching their first replacement together. Utah licenses roofers, but entry is easy: the S280 roofing licence needs no exam and no experience. The storm risk here is monsoon flash flooding and desert heat rather than hail. Only one certified firm with five or more reviews appears in the directory for Washington County, so one is ranked, and five more local roofers are listed for comparison.
Is wind or hail the bigger risk to a roof in St. George?
Wind, by a wide margin. The St. George, UT statistical area logged 29 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports against 5 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 the 400 largest U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan areas on the same formula.
- Best roofers in Las Vegas, NV, about 110 miles from St. George
- Best roofers in Lake Havasu City, AZ, about 183 miles from St. George
- Best roofers in Prescott Valley, AZ, about 185 miles from St. George
- Best roofers in Provo, UT, another UT metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Salt Lake City, UT, another UT metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Chico, CA, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Elkhart, IN, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Phoenix, AZ, also scored, about 256 miles away
- Best roofers in Ogden, UT, also scored, about 299 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 St. George, UT: 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.