Short answer: As of October 2026, the one highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Tyler, TX metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are Tyler Roofing Co Inc (45.0). Every one holds a manufacturer certification that can be verified independently, every rating below has been corroborated against at least one source outside the certification registry, and no company paid to appear here.
The Roofing Brief scored 1 certified roofing contractors serving the Tyler metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top one individually to confirm its record. The manufacturer directory this ranking is built on lists exactly two roofing firms for every search around Tyler, and one of them has no reviews. That leaves one certified firm to rank, and it would be a poor guide to this market to stop there. Tyler is where East Texas’s roofing credentials actually concentrate, just not in this network: twelve Owens Corning members within 30 miles, including both of the region’s top-tier Platinum Preferred firms, and nine holders of the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas licence in Smith County. Texas licenses no roofers and the City of Tyler does not register them either, so those voluntary credentials are the only roofing-specific ones that exist here. We rank the one certified firm and name six of the others below.
The conditions a Tyler roof has to be specified for
This is an April hail market. Across 2016 to 2025 Smith County logged 103 hail reports, 79 of them at an inch or more and 9 at two inches or more, with April the busiest month at 31 reports and every two-inch report falling between February and June. The largest stones were 2.75 inches, reported twice: near Pine Springs on 13 June 2023, which the NWS narrative describes as baseball size hail six miles north east of Tyler, and near Noonday on 11 February 2024. The county also logged 135 thunderstorm wind reports, 44 of them at 58 knots, roughly 67 mph, or more, and 13 tornado segments.
Tornadoes have touched the city itself. On 20 April 2023 an NWS survey confirmed a weak EF0 near 80 mph in Midtown Tyler that tore a few shingles off a funeral home near East 1st Street and South Fleishel Avenue and peeled part of a metal roof from a nearby medical building. On 6 May 2025 an EF1 near 93 mph crossed the north side of Bullard, where the survey found quite a few residences with low end roof damage, mainly shingle loss, and on 28 October 2025 another EF1 struck north east of Lindale.
Nobody licenses roofers here. The Roofing Contractors Association of Texas states plainly that the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation does not administer licensure for roofing contractors and that anyone can call themselves a roofer in Texas. The City of Tyler’s master registration form offers categories for general contractors, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, irrigation, swimming pools, demolition and more, but none for roofing. What the city does require is a permit: residential roof replacement is a flat $100 on its fee schedule, and Tyler follows the 2021 International Code Council standards with local amendments in chapter 6 of its code.
The one statute that protects you is about your deductible, and it is often misquoted. House Bill 2102, in force since 1 September 2019, added Insurance Code section 707.002, which obliges the insured to pay the deductible. The offence that binds the contractor sits in Business and Commerce Code section 27.02, a Class B misdemeanour, and section 27.02(b) requires any contract of $1,000 or more expected to be paid from insurance proceeds to carry a notice to that effect in at least 12 point bold type. The county is growing, from an April 2020 base of 233,480 to 249,091 in July 2024, and its median year built is 1986 countywide and 1978 in the city.
The one certified roofer ranked in Tyler, TX
Scored 2026-10-04. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Tyler is 4.2, across a pool of 1 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tyler Roofing Co Inc | 45.0 | Certified | 4.2 (10) | 4.2 | 1983 | Tyler, TX |
1. Tyler Roofing Co Inc — TRB Score 45.0
Tyler Roofing Co Inc is based in Tyler, TX, in business since 1983, led by Tommy Ray Sukiennik, President; Mark Sukiennik, Vice President, BBB accredited since 1986, A+ rating, no complaints in three years, and holds Certified standing on the GAF certification registry.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 12 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 8.0 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 15.0 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 45.0 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Accredited since 1986 with an A+ rating, a business start of 1 December 1983 and no complaints closed in three years, with Tommy Ray Sukiennik as president.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Residential and commercial roofing in the Tyler market.
Why it ranks here. A Sukiennik family business trading from Spur 164 in Tyler since 1983, a date on which BBB and the company’s own site agree, and BBB accredited since 1986, which is forty years of unbroken accreditation and among the longest we have recorded anywhere in this programme. It has no complaints closed in three years and its own site describes Tyler as its market.
Best fit for: Homeowners who weight four decades of local trading and accreditation above credential count.
What we would want clarified. Two limits. It holds no RCAT licence and is not in the Owens Corning network, so its only roofing-specific credential is the manufacturer certification we score, which we could not independently confirm. And its consumer record is thin: 10 reviews at 4.2, which is little evidence in either direction. Its website footer also says in business since 1993, which conflicts with the 1983 date; we treat 1983 as better supported. Compare it against at least one of the RCAT-licensed firms below. 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 (903) 597-2274, 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 credentialed Tyler roofers our ranking cannot see
One firm clears our certified evidence floor here. These six Tyler-area roofers hold an RCAT licence, an Owens Corning network listing, or both, each checked on the issuing body’s own directory, and each is BBB accredited at A+. They are not scored and we are not recommending them. They are the market a homeowner in Tyler actually chooses from.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| Advantage Roofing Company | Owens Corning Platinum Preferred, membership 230213, on State Highway 155 South; RCAT combined residential and commercial licence 03-0692 held by Jay Welling; BBB accredited since 16 April 2009, business started 2007. |
| Cable’s Roofing & Construction | RCAT combined licence 03-0520; Owens Corning Preferred, membership 222241; BBB accredited since 17 September 2013, business started 1999, current entity chartered in 2017. |
| Steele Roofing LLC | RCAT combined licence 03-0455 held by John Steele; Owens Corning Preferred, membership 252461; BBB accredited since 7 November 2017, business started 2014. |
| AVCO Roofing | RCAT residential licence 01-0305 and commercial licence 02-0306; Owens Corning Preferred, membership 217255, on McKellar Road; BBB accredited since 1 June 2007, owner Heath Hicks. |
| Stonewater Roofing | RCAT combined licence 03-0384; BBB accredited since 3 October 2011; founded in Tyler in 2010, with its website, BBB and Texas Comptroller charter date all agreeing. |
| Priority Contracting and Roofing, Lindale | Owens Corning Platinum Preferred, membership 248428, at Lindale; BBB accredited as Priority Roofing of Tyler since March 2021. An RCAT member with no RCAT licence shown, and a multi-state operator with more than 40 locations; BBB records 15 complaints closed in three years against a large review base. |
The 79 hail reports behind a Tyler 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 Tyler, TX statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 103 hail reports, 135 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 13 tornadoes. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $1.1 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
The biggest hail to fall on Tyler in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 February 2024 | 2.75 in | Noonday | Smith |
| 13 June 2023 | 2.75 in | Pine Spgs | Smith |
| 3 May 2017 | 2.5 in | Tyler | Smith |
| 13 June 2023 | 2.5 in | Swan | Smith |
| 13 June 2023 | 2.25 in | Lindale | Smith |
| 11 February 2024 | 2.0 in | Peaceful Vly | Smith |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 11 February 2024 near Noonday, measured at 2.75 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 87 knots, about 100 mph, near Whitehouse on 5 April 2022. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 13 tornadoes touched down in these counties over the decade, the strongest rated EF2 near Lindale on 29 April 2016.
What the National Weather Service wrote about it
The NWS logs a written account of each severe-weather episode. This is its description of the 5 April 2022 event near Whitehouse, reproduced verbatim:
A downburst affected much of the southern and eastern sections of the city of Whitehouse, resulting in numerous trees being snapped and uprooted along its path. The majority of the more significant damage occurred in an east-southeasterly direction, which began in the Willows subdivision just west of Willingham Road, where several small Bradford pear trees were snapped, and small areas of shingles were ripped from the roofs of a couple of homes with winds estimated in the range of 70-75 mph. The winds from this downburst intensified as it crossed Willingham Road, affecting several streets along and to the west of Highway 110. Here, numerous hardwood trees and large limbs were snapped and…
A roof in this metro is built against events like that one, as recorded by the agency that recorded it rather than by a contractor selling the repair.
When it happens. Severe weather reports cluster in April (71), May (52), June (38). The worst years on record were 2023 (39), 2024 (38), 2017 (33). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Tyler, 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. Tyler sees enough damaging hail that a Class 4 impact-rated shingle is worth pricing, though not automatically worth buying. Get both quotes and weigh the premium against any insurance discount.
Owens Corning and RCAT country: where Tyler’s roofing credentials actually sit
In a state with no roofing licence and a city with no roofer registration, a homeowner in Tyler has only two kinds of roofing credential to check: a manufacturer’s contractor network, and the voluntary licence the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas issues. Both are dense here. They just are not in the network this ranking is built on, which is why the certified pool collapses to a single firm.
Owens Corning’s own locator returns 12 network members within 30 miles of central Tyler. Two carry its top tier, Platinum Preferred: Advantage Roofing Company on State Highway 155 South in Tyler, and Priority Contracting and Roofing at Lindale. Those are the only two Platinum Preferred firms in East Texas, which is the clearest sign that Tyler, not Longview or Nacogdoches, is where the region’s certified roofing capacity has settled.
RCAT’s licence is the closest thing Texas has to a roofing exam. To hold one a firm’s principal must have been a principal in a Texas-domiciled roofing company for at least two years with a fixed address and must pass business, safety and trade examinations. RCAT’s directory, searched on 4 October 2026, lists nine licence holders in Smith County. The licence number encodes the class: 01 for residential, 02 for commercial and 03 for both. Four Tyler firms hold both an Owens Corning listing and an RCAT licence, which is the strongest credential combination available in this market: Advantage, Cable’s, Steele and AVCO.
Two cautions about reading these credentials. First, network membership and RCAT membership are not the same as an RCAT licence: Priority appears in RCAT’s directory as a member since 2018 with no licence shown. Second, size is not locality. Priority runs more than 40 locations across Texas and at least 15 other states, with separate Texas entities for different cities, so you may be dealing with a branch of a national operator rather than a Tyler business. Neither is a criticism; both are things to know.
There is also no local trade institution pulling these firms together. RCAT has six regional chapters, covering Central Texas, Houston, Lubbock, North Texas, the Panhandle and a suspended Abilene chapter, and none in East Texas. So the practical test in Tyler is the one you run yourself: ask for the RCAT licence number and look it up, ask for the manufacturer network and check it on the manufacturer’s own locator, pull the $100 permit, and make sure any insurance-funded contract carries the bold-type deductible notice the law requires.
Roofing credentials in the Tyler market
| Credential | Count or rule | Source |
|---|---|---|
| State roofing licence | None in Texas | RCAT; TDLR |
| City of Tyler roofer registration | None; no roofing category on the registration form | City of Tyler |
| Residential roof replacement permit | $100 flat | City of Tyler fee schedule |
| Owens Corning members within 30 miles | 12, including both East Texas Platinum Preferred firms | Owens Corning locator |
| RCAT licence holders in Smith County | 9 | RCAT licensed-contractor directory, 4 October 2026 |
| Firms with both an RCAT licence and an Owens Corning listing | 4: Advantage, Cable’s, Steele, AVCO | RCAT; Owens Corning |
| Firms in the GAF directory clearing our floor | 1 | GAF directory |
| RCAT chapter covering East Texas | None | RCAT |
| Hail of an inch or more, 2016 to 2025 | 79 reports; April busiest | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Deductible offence for contractors | Business and Commerce Code 27.02, Class B misdemeanour | HB 2102 (2019) |
Source: RCAT licensing page and licensed-contractor directory; Owens Corning contractor locator; City of Tyler fee schedule, registration form and code; HB 2102 (86th Legislature); Texas Comptroller franchise tax records; NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database and NWS Shreveport surveys; US Census Bureau.
The checks worth making in Tyler
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.
Who else is certified in Tyler
1 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Tyler, TX statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 10 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.2. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 249,091, a change of 6.69% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Tyler rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Tyler, 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 0 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.2. The top one were then researched individually against Better Business Bureau records, state licence registers and manufacturer directories. Where that research turned up something awkward it is on the page, and no placement was paid for.
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: 2026-10-04. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
Tyler roofing questions, answered
Who is the best roofer in Tyler, TX?
How many certified roofing contractors serve Tyler?
1 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Tyler, TX statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Tyler get?
The Tyler, TX statistical area recorded 79 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 2.75 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 Tyler in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Tyler, TX statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 2.75 inches, reported near Noonday on 11 February 2024. That is baseball sized, comfortably past the point where a roof is written off rather than repaired. Across the decade the metro recorded 103 hail reports. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $1.1 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Tyler?
Severe-weather reports in the Tyler, TX statistical area cluster in April, May, June, on the NOAA record for 2016 to 2025. Outside those months local crews are not triaging storm damage, so lead times are shorter and scheduling is easier.
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 Tyler?
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.
Owens Corning and RCAT country: where Tyler’s roofing credentials actually sit?
In a state with no roofing licence and a city with no roofer registration, a homeowner in Tyler has only two kinds of roofing credential to check: a manufacturer’s contractor network, and the voluntary licence the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas issues. Both are dense here. They just are not in the network this ranking is built on, which is why the certified pool collapses to a single firm.
Is Tyler a hard market to find a good roofer in?
The manufacturer directory this ranking is built on lists exactly two roofing firms for every search around Tyler, and one of them has no reviews. That leaves one certified firm to rank, and it would be a poor guide to this market to stop there. Tyler is where East Texas’s roofing credentials actually concentrate, just not in this network: twelve Owens Corning members within 30 miles, including both of the region’s top-tier Platinum Preferred firms, and nine holders of the Roofing Contractors Association of Texas licence in Smith County. Texas licenses no roofers and the City of Tyler does not register them either, so those voluntary credentials are the only roofing-specific ones that exist here. We rank the one certified firm and name six of the others below.
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 Longview, TX, about 35 miles from Tyler
- Best roofers in Shreveport, LA, about 89 miles from Tyler
- Best roofers in Dallas, TX, about 91 miles from Tyler
- Best roofers in Waco, TX, another TX metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in College Station, TX, another TX metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Appleton, WI, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Prescott Valley, AZ, 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 Tyler, 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.