Short answer: As of October 2026, the one highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are Saints Roofing & Construction (90.9). Each is certified by a manufacturer whose register we checked by hand, each rating has been tested against a source outside that register, and nobody bought a place on this page.
The Roofing Brief scored 1 certified roofing contractors serving the Weirton metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top one individually to confirm its record. The Weirton-Steubenville metro is one river with two rulebooks: on the West Virginia side any reroof of $5,000 or more needs a state contractor licence and insurance-claim roof contracts can be cancelled after a denial, while across the Ohio River there is no state licence and no such right. On 8 May 2024 a high-end EF2 tornado crossed both, tearing roofs off homes in Irondale, Ohio and Fairhaven, West Virginia.
Quick picks for Weirton:
- Saints Roofing & Construction: best overall (TRB Score 90.9). Verified services: roof replacement, roof repair, commercial roofing, storm damage work, siding, gutters, chimney work.
What a Weirton roof is up against
In Hancock and Brooke counties, West Virginia, anyone taking on residential work of $5,000 or more needs a Contractor Licensing Board licence; roofers usually hold a Specialty licence with roofing in scope after passing a business and law exam. The permit desk must check the licence before issuing a permit, and a licensed job of $10,000 or more needs a written contract.
West Virginia’s Storm Scammer Consumer Protection Act lets you cancel an insurance-funded roofing contract before midnight of the fifth business day after the insurer denies all or part of the claim. The roofer may not take advance payment until then, except for emergency repairs, and may not negotiate your claim or offer to cover your deductible. None of this applies in Jefferson County, Ohio, where only the general three-day door-to-door cancellation right exists.
Weirton requires a permit before any repair or remodelling starts, making owner and contractor jointly liable for $50 to $500 fines if work begins without one; its reroof form asks for the contractor’s West Virginia and city licence numbers and an acknowledgement of asbestos and lead rules. Contractors also need an annual Weirton business licence. In Steubenville every contractor must register with the city before any permit is issued.
The housing is old: the metro’s median home dates from 1959, only 8 percent of homes were built since 2000, and in Steubenville 26 percent predate 1940 and 42.8 percent are rented. Winter adds ice: on 3 February 2022 an ice storm cut power to more than half of Hancock County.
The one certified roofer ranked in Weirton, WV
Scored 2026-10-18. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Weirton is 4.9, across a pool of 1 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saints Roofing & Construction | 90.9 | President’s Club | 4.9 (283) | 4.9 | 2020 | Wellsburg, WV |
1. Saints Roofing & Construction: best overall (TRB Score 90.9)
Saints Roofing & Construction is based in Wellsburg, WV, in business since 2020, led by Barry and Ruth Hicks, owners, BBB accredited since 14 April 2021, A+ rating, no complaints, and holds President’s Club standing on the GAF certification registry.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 35 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 36.0 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 12.1 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 7.8 | 10 |
| Total | 90.9 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Saints Construction LLC, trading as Saints Roofing and Construction, holds Specialty roofing licence WV060452, active to February 2027, at its Wellsburg address, per a mirror of the board’s record.. West Virginia Contractor Licensing Board
- Saints Construction LLC, organised September 2020 with Brooke County as its charter county; members Ruth and Barry Hicks.. West Virginia Secretary of State
- Accredited since April 2021 with an A+ rating; owners Barry and Ruth Hicks; no complaints in three years.. BBB business profile
- In August 2024 the family business opened its Wellsburg location on Commerce Street, with about 16 crew members doing roofing, siding, gutters, chimneys and insurance inspections.. Herald-Star
What they actually do. Residential and commercial roof replacement and repair, siding, seamless and box gutters, chimney and flashing work, and storm restoration.
Services we could verify: roof replacement, roof repair, commercial roofing, storm damage work, siding, gutters, chimney work.
Why it ranks here. The only certified roofer in GAF’s directory that serves this metro, a President’s Club firm with 283 GAF reviews averaging 4.9, licensed in West Virginia for roofing and based in Wellsburg inside the metro. The state business record and BBB agree on a 2020 start, though the owner has decades in home repair. It serves Ohio and Pennsylvania as well as West Virginia.
Best fit for: Weirton, Wellsburg and Follansbee homeowners who want a top-tier certified roofer licensed on the West Virginia side.
What we would want clarified. Its registered principal office is in Wheeling, and as a 2020 company it has a shorter track record than its owner’s experience suggests. 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 (304) 780-7902, 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 licensed roofers in the Weirton-Steubenville metro
These firms hold West Virginia contractor licences with roofing or residential scope, per a mirror of the licensing board’s record, but are not in GAF’s certified directory, so they are not scored or ranked. Confirm the licence is current with the board.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| Albert Magnone Construction & Remodeling | Weirton; licence WV002169 covering residential, general building and roofing; BBB A+, not accredited, trading since 1980; a general and remodelling contractor. |
| Machen Home Improvement, LLC | Colliers, Brooke County; licence WV051122; BBB accredited since 2025, A+; roofing listed first among its services. The mirrored licence showed an expiry of July 2026, so confirm renewal. |
| R & L Minto Construction, Inc. | Wintersville, Ohio; West Virginia licence WV045023; BBB A+, not accredited, since 2004; residential remodelling including roofing on both sides of the river. |
| Windows R Us | Wintersville, Ohio; West Virginia licence WV044865 with roofing in scope; Owens Corning network; windows first, roofing alongside. |
| Roofsimple Inc | Steubenville office of a Virginia roofing firm; Owens Corning network; BBB accredited since 2017, A+; covers Jefferson County, Ohio towns but not the West Virginia side here. |
Roof replacement and repair in Weirton, WV
Short answer: In Weirton, the one ranked option is Saints Roofing & Construction of Wellsburg, a President’s Club firm licensed in West Virginia for roofing that does replacement, repair, chimney, gutter and storm restoration work. Licensed alternatives include Albert Magnone Construction and Machen Home Improvement. The rule that matters most: on the West Virginia side, any residential job of $5,000 or more needs a state Contractor Licensing Board licence, which the permit desk must check.
Storm damage here is mostly wind and tornado. The decade holds 156 wind reports and five tornadoes, with June, July and April the busiest months. On 8 May 2024 a high-end EF2 tornado of 130 mph crossed the Ohio River and took entire roofs off several homes in Fairhaven, south of Chester, after unroofing homes along County Highway 55 and in Irondale, Ohio. Hail is less common, 31 reports, but 2-inch stones fell near Hooverson Heights on 28 March 2020. Age matters as much as weather: the metro’s median home dates from 1959, and on 3 February 2022 an ice storm cut power to more than half of Hancock County.
West Virginia has no 25 percent roof rule. The State Building Code adopts the 2018 IRC but is enforced only where counties and municipalities adopt it. Where it applies, a replacement tears off to the deck, and a recover is barred over a water soaked or deteriorated roof, over slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile, or where two or more layers already exist. Weirton requires a permit before any repair or remodelling starts, with owner and contractor jointly liable for $50 to $500 fines, and its reroof form asks for the contractor’s West Virginia and city licence numbers and an acknowledgement of asbestos and lead rules.
West Virginia’s Storm Scammer Consumer Protection Act lets you cancel an insurance-funded roofing contract before midnight of the fifth business day after the insurer denies all or part of the claim. Until then the roofer may not take advance payment, except for emergency repairs, and may never negotiate your claim or offer to cover your deductible. A licensed job of $10,000 or more needs a written contract. Across the river in Jefferson County, Ohio, none of this applies: there is no state roofing licence, Steubenville requires city contractor registration before any permit, and the only cancellation right is three days after a door-to-door sale.
Saints Roofing & Construction is the only certified roofer in GAF’s directory serving this metro, with 283 GAF reviews averaging 4.9 and Specialty roofing licence WV060452. It handles residential and commercial replacement and repair, siding, seamless and box gutters, chimney and flashing work and storm restoration, and serves Ohio and Pennsylvania too, though as a 2020 company its track record is short. Among licensed but unranked firms, Machen Home Improvement in Colliers lists roofing first among its services, and R & L Minto Construction of Wintersville holds a West Virginia licence and works both sides of the river.
| Rule | What applies | Source |
|---|---|---|
| State contractor licence | Required for residential work of $5,000 or more; roofers usually hold a Specialty licence with roofing in scope after a business and law exam. | W. Va. Code 30-42-3(d) |
| Permit licence check | The building inspector may not issue a permit to a person who does not hold a valid licence where one is required. | W. Va. Code 30-42-10(a) |
| Written contract | Mandatory for a licensed job of $10,000 or more. | West Virginia Contractor Licensing Act |
| Weirton permit | Required before any repair or remodelling starts; owner and contractor jointly liable for $50 to $500 fines; contractors need an annual Weirton business licence. | City of Weirton |
| Cancel after a claim denial | Before midnight of the fifth business day after the insurer denies all or part of the claim; no advance payment until then except emergency repairs; no deductible rebates or claim negotiation. | W. Va. Code 46A-6M |
| Tear-off and recover limits | Where the State Building Code is adopted, a replacement tears off to the deck; no recover over a water soaked or deteriorated roof, slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile, or two or more existing layers. | 87 CSR 4; IRC R908.3 and R908.3.1.1 |
| 25 percent rule | West Virginia has no 25 percent roof rule. | West Virginia State Building Code, 87 CSR 4 |
Related guides: the 25% roofing rule in West Virginia 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 156 wind reports that shape a Weirton 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 3 counties of the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 31 hail reports, 156 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 5 tornadoes. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $1.3 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
The biggest hail to fall on Weirton in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 March 2020 | 2.0 in | Wintersville | Jefferson |
| 28 March 2020 | 2.0 in | Hooverson Hgts | Brooke |
| 12 August 2023 | 1.75 in | Bethany | Brooke |
| 28 March 2020 | 1.75 in | Hooverson Hgts | Brooke |
| 2 April 2025 | 1.5 in | Osage | Jefferson |
| 2 May 2016 | 1.5 in | Pravo | Jefferson |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 28 March 2020 near Wintersville, measured at 2.0 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 70 knots, about 81 mph, near Wolf Run on 14 June 2022. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 5 tornadoes touched down in these counties over the decade, the strongest rated EF2 near Arroyo on 8 May 2024.
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 2 July 2019 event near Mt Pleasant, reproduced verbatim:
Local media reported two power poles snapped in half, a large maple tree split in half, and power lines down along the road.
That account is the design case for a roof here, and it comes from the agency that recorded it rather than by a contractor selling the repair.
When it happens. Severe weather reports cluster in June (45), July (43), April (34). The worst years on record were 2019 (35), 2025 (27), 2021 (26). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Weirton, 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 Weirton. Weight your decision toward wind rating, ventilation and flashing detail rather than paying extra for impact-rated shingles.
One river, two rulebooks, and a tornado that crossed both
Just before 1 a.m. on 8 May 2024 a tornado formed in northwest Jefferson County, Ohio. Along County Highway 55 it took roofs off several homes, overturned a mobile home and shifted a house off its foundation, and in Irondale a metal building lost its roof and part of its walls before the storm reached the Ohio River.
After crossing the river south of Wellsville it peaked as a high-end EF2 of 130 mph in Fairhaven, south of Chester in Hancock County, where several homes lost their entire roofs and barns were destroyed. The National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh called it one of the stronger and more significant tornadoes in the recent history of the region, tracking 15 miles across three states. NOAA records no damage figure for it.
It was not a one-off. On 29 July 2021 two EF1 tornadoes hit Jefferson County, one through the west side of Wintersville that lifted parts of two roofs and drove a 2×4 through a church wall, and another near Bergholz at 105 mph. On 28 March 2020 hail of golf ball to near tennis ball size fell near Wintersville, and 2-inch stones near Hooverson Heights smashed car windows.
After a storm like that, the rules depend on which bank you live on. In Weirton or Wellsburg a roofer taking a job of $5,000 or more must hold a West Virginia licence, which the permit desk must check, and if your insurer denies the claim you have five business days to cancel. In Steubenville or Wintersville the check is the city’s contractor registration, and the only cancellation right is three days after a door-to-door sale.
Firms that work both sides need both credentials, and several Pittsburgh-area roofers appear in searches here without a West Virginia licence. Ask any roofer which state’s rules apply to your job, for its West Virginia licence number if you are on that side, and whether its contract includes the West Virginia cancellation notice.
The two sides of the Weirton-Steubenville metro
| Rule | West Virginia side (Hancock, Brooke) | Ohio side (Jefferson) |
|---|---|---|
| State contractor licence | Required for residential jobs of $5,000 or more | None for roofing |
| Local check | Permit desk must verify the licence; Weirton business licence | Steubenville contractor registration before any permit |
| Cancel after a claim denial | Five business days (W. Va. Code 46A-6M-2) | No equivalent right |
| Deductible rebates | Banned (46A-6M-5) | No roofing-specific ban |
| Door-to-door sale | Solicitation licence in Weirton | Three-day cancellation (ORC 1345.22) |
| 8 May 2024 EF2 tornado | 130 mph in Fairhaven; homes unroofed | Roofs off homes along County Highway 55 and in Irondale |
Source: National Weather Service Pittsburgh storm surveys and NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database bulk files (Hancock and Brooke counties, WV, Jefferson County, OH, and their forecast zones, 2016 to 2025, our recount); W. Va. Code 30-42 and 46A-6M; 28 CSR 2; 87 CSR 4; Ohio Revised Code 1345.22, 3951.02 and 4740.01; City of Weirton permit and business licence pages; City of Steubenville Building Inspection Division; West Virginia Secretary of State; TradeProof mirror of West Virginia Contractor Licensing Board records; Herald-Star; Owens Corning contractor locator; BBB business profiles; US Census Bureau ACS 2020 to 2024.
The checks worth making in Weirton
Licensing is required in WV. West Virginia licenses contractors through the Contractor Licensing Board, but the requirement turns on the size of the job rather than on the trade. Under W. Va. Code 30-42-3(d) a person is a “contractor”, and so needs a licence, once the cost of the undertaking reaches $5,000 for residential work or $25,000 for commercial work. Below $5,000 a residential re-roof falls outside the definition entirely and no state licence is required. Note that the Act was moved in 2021 from Chapter 21, Article 11 to Chapter 30, Article 42, so older guidance citing a $2,500 threshold is quoting repealed law.
There is no roofing classification among West Virginia’s tested licence types; a roofing-only firm is normally licensed as a Specialty contractor with roofing listed in its scope, and a Residential licence also covers roofing. Every applicant must pass the West Virginia business and law examination at 70 percent; any further exam for a specialty licence is set by the Board. The state requires no licence bond or general liability insurance, though every applicant must swear to business franchise tax, workers’ compensation, employment security and wage bond compliance; the board’s fee is $90 a year, under a statutory cap of $150. Separately, the Storm Scammer Consumer Protection Act (W. Va. Code 46A-6M) lets a homeowner cancel an insurance-funded roofing contract before midnight on the fifth business day after the insurer denies all or part of the claim, bars advance payments until that five-day period has run (emergency repairs excepted), bars claim negotiation by roofers, bars offering to pay or rebate a deductible, and makes any wilful violation a misdemeanour punishable by a fine of up to $5,000, up to a year in jail, or both.
Check here: West Virginia Contractor Licensing Board licence lookup. The permit desk is the strongest lever a West Virginia homeowner has. Under W. Va. Code 30-42-10(a) an applicant must either prove to the building inspector that they are licensed or file an affidavit that they are not subject to licensure, and the inspector may not issue a building permit to a person who does not hold a valid licence where one is required. A written contract is separately mandatory at $10,000 or more. So a contractor who suggests working without a permit is also routing around the one checkpoint that tests their licence.
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 many certified roofers Weirton actually has
1 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH statistical area, of which 1 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 283 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.9. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 113,239, a change of -3.14% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Weirton rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH 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 1 hold President’s Club standing and 0 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.9. The top one were then researched individually against Better Business Bureau records, state licence registers and manufacturer directories. Anything unflattering that research surfaced appears above alongside the rest, and no company bought its position.
Set aside in Weirton. Contractors that would otherwise have scored into the top one were removed for the reason stated. The score is computed from public data, but where the research pass finds evidence undermining an input to that score, the score is set aside.
- McClellands Contracting & Roofing LLC, which scored 90.8: Excluded on service area and licence. A Pittsburgh-area roofer whose BBB service area covers places within 20 miles of Oakdale, none in Hancock, Brooke or Jefferson counties, and for which we found no West Virginia contractor licence.
- Big Fish Roofing, which scored 90.4: Excluded on service area and licence. A greater Pittsburgh roofer whose site and BBB profile describe Allegheny, Washington and Butler counties, with no mention of Weirton, Steubenville or West Virginia, and for which we found no West Virginia contractor licence.
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.
Questions Weirton homeowners ask
Who is the best roofer in Weirton, WV?
What is the 25% rule for roofing in West Virginia?
West Virginia has no 25 percent roof rule. The State Building Code adopts the 2018 IRC and 2018 IEBC but is enforced only in counties and municipalities that adopt it. Where it applies, a replacement means tear off to the deck under IRC R908.3.
Do I need a permit to replace a roof in Weirton?
Yes. Weirton requires a permit before any repair or remodelling starts, and owner and contractor are jointly liable for $50 to $500 fines if work begins without one. The reroof form asks for the contractor’s West Virginia and city licence numbers.
Can I cancel a roofing contract in West Virginia if my insurance claim is denied?
Yes. The Storm Scammer Consumer Protection Act lets you cancel an insurance-funded roofing contract before midnight of the fifth business day after the insurer denies all or part of the claim. The roofer may not take advance payment until then, except for emergency repairs. This right does not apply in Jefferson County, Ohio.
Who does roof repair in Weirton?
Saints Roofing & Construction, based in Wellsburg, does residential and commercial roof repair and replacement, chimney and flashing work and storm restoration, and holds a West Virginia Specialty roofing licence. Licensed unranked alternatives include Albert Magnone Construction & Remodeling in Weirton and Machen Home Improvement in Colliers.
How many certified roofing contractors serve Weirton?
1 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH statistical area as of October 2026, of which 1 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Weirton get?
The Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH statistical area recorded 26 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 2.0 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 Weirton in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 2.0 inches, reported near Wintersville on 28 March 2020. 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 31 hail reports. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $1.3 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Weirton?
Severe-weather reports in the Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH statistical area cluster in June, July, April, on the NOAA record for 2016 to 2025. Booking non-urgent roof work outside those months usually means shorter lead times, because local crews are not simultaneously triaging storm callouts.
Do roofers need a licence in WV?
West Virginia licenses contractors through the Contractor Licensing Board, but the requirement turns on the size of the job rather than on the trade. Under W. Va. Code 30-42-3(d) a person is a “contractor”, and so needs a licence, once the cost of the undertaking reaches $5,000 for residential work or $25,000 for commercial work. Below $5,000 a residential re-roof falls outside the definition entirely and no state licence is required. Note that the Act was moved in 2021 from Chapter 21, Article 11 to Chapter 30, Article 42, so older guidance citing a $2,500 threshold is quoting repealed law. There is no roofing classification among West Virginia’s tested licence types; a roofing-only firm is normally licensed as a Specialty contractor with roofing listed in its scope, and a Residential licence also covers roofing. Every applicant must pass the West Virginia business and law examination at 70 percent; any further exam for a specialty licence is set by the Board. The state requires no licence bond or general liability insurance, though every applicant must swear to business franchise tax, workers’ compensation, employment security and wage bond compliance; the board’s fee is $90 a year, under a statutory cap of $150. Separately, the Storm Scammer Consumer Protection Act (W. Va. Code 46A-6M) lets a homeowner cancel an insurance-funded roofing contract before midnight on the fifth business day after the insurer denies all or part of the claim, bars advance payments until that five-day period has run (emergency repairs excepted), bars claim negotiation by roofers, bars offering to pay or rebate a deductible, and makes any wilful violation a misdemeanour punishable by a fine of up to $5,000, up to a year in jail, or both.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Weirton?
The permit desk is the strongest lever a West Virginia homeowner has. Under W. Va. Code 30-42-10(a) an applicant must either prove to the building inspector that they are licensed or file an affidavit that they are not subject to licensure, and the inspector may not issue a building permit to a person who does not hold a valid licence where one is required. A written contract is separately mandatory at $10,000 or more. So a contractor who suggests working without a permit is also routing around the one checkpoint that tests their licence.
One river, two rulebooks, and a tornado that crossed both?
Just before 1 a.m. on 8 May 2024 a tornado formed in northwest Jefferson County, Ohio. Along County Highway 55 it took roofs off several homes, overturned a mobile home and shifted a house off its foundation, and in Irondale a metal building lost its roof and part of its walls before the storm reached the Ohio River.
Is Weirton a hard market to find a good roofer in?
The Weirton-Steubenville metro is one river with two rulebooks: on the West Virginia side any reroof of $5,000 or more needs a state contractor licence and insurance-claim roof contracts can be cancelled after a denial, while across the Ohio River there is no state licence and no such right. On 8 May 2024 a high-end EF2 tornado crossed both, tearing roofs off homes in Irondale, Ohio and Fairhaven, West Virginia.
Is wind or hail the bigger risk to a roof in Weirton?
Wind, by a wide margin. The Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH statistical area logged 156 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports against 26 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.
Why is McClellands Contracting & Roofing LLC not on this list?
Excluded on service area and licence. A Pittsburgh-area roofer whose BBB service area covers places within 20 miles of Oakdale, none in Hancock, Brooke or Jefferson counties, and for which we found no West Virginia contractor licence..
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 Wheeling, WV, about 24 miles from Weirton
- Best roofers in Pittsburgh, PA, about 31 miles from Weirton
- Best roofers in Youngstown, OH, about 48 miles from Weirton
- Best roofers in Canton, OH, about 50 miles from Weirton
- Best roofers in Morgantown, WV, another WV metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Charleston, WV, another WV metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Williamsport, PA, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Watertown, NY, 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 Weirton, WV: 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.