Shreveport Roof Pros: Roof Replacement, Repair, Hail and Ice Damage
Residential and commercial roofing specified for north Louisiana. Free inspections across Caddo, Bossier, Webster and De Soto parishes.
Louisiana Residential Roofing classification, checkable on the state board's license search·Louisiana requires no surety bond in this trade, so we never use the word bonded·Every reroof permitted and inspected, as state statute has required since August 2025·One return visit after the first hard spring rain, booked before we leave
Shreveport Roof Pros is a licensed Louisiana roofing contractor handling roof replacement, leak repair, hail and storm work, standing seam metal, and low-slope membrane systems across Shreveport and Caddo Parish. We quote decking, fascia and gutter work as named line items with unit prices rather than folding them into a square-foot number nobody can check afterwards.
Northwest Louisiana is not the Gulf coast and it is not the Midwest, and a roof specified for either one is wrong on this parish. The weather service calls this climate transitional and it behaves like it: the cold-season load arrives as freezing rain off a shallow arctic dome rather than as snow, while the warm season runs near ninety-nine days a year at or above ninety degrees.
So we specify for what actually reaches this address. Impact class ahead of wind class. Eave, edge and fascia hardware sized for a short heavy glaze load rather than for months of standing ice. Attic ventilation balanced for a long cooling season instead of for ice dams. Every reroof is permitted and inspected, which Louisiana has required by statute since August 2025.
Our Roofing Services in Shreveport, LA
Roof Replacement
Replacing a roof in Caddo Parish is mostly an argument about what sits under the shingles. Nearly sixty percent of the housing here went up before 1980 and close to forty percent before 1970, so the deck is the variable and the covering is the easy part.
Roof Leak Repair
Most of the leak calls that reach us in March and April are not spring damage. They are January arriving late.
Storm Damage Restoration
Weather that damages roofs here rarely arrives with a name or a landfall time. It is a squall line in April, a downburst nobody reported, or a glaze event that ends before anyone thinks to look up.
Hail Damage Roofing
Hail is the one hazard here that genuinely justifies spending money, and it is also the one most often oversold on a doorstep. Both of those things are true at once, and the federal storm record settles the argument better than any sales pitch can.
Wind Damage Roofing
On this page we argue against something we could easily sell you. Wind damage is real in northwest Louisiana, but it is not the wind the coastal industry sells against, and buying the coastal answer up here means buying the wrong thing at the wrong price.
Roof Inspections
Most roofing companies inspect when you call them. In a transition-zone climate that is the wrong trigger, because the two moments that actually tell you something about a north Louisiana roof are both moments nobody ever thinks to call about.
Asphalt Shingle Roofs
Asphalt covers almost everything in this market and it should. What separates a good roof on this parish from an average one is not the brand on the wrapper.
Metal Roofing
Metal earns its place on some roofs here and is a poor buy on others, and in this climate the deciding factor is not the panel itself. It is what happens when a sheet of ice lets go of a slick surface all at once.
Tile Roofing
We service tile roofs across this area and we will repair yours properly. Selling you a new one is the part we decline, and it seems fairer to explain that here than to quietly price ourselves out of the job and let you wonder why.
Flat and Low-Slope Roofing
Low slope in this market is rarely a whole building. It is the porch, the carport, the flat-topped ell and the rear addition that got bolted onto a ranch house in 1968, and those planes carry a risk the pitched part of the roof simply does not.
Roof Coatings and Sealing
A coating is a genuinely good product used correctly and a genuinely bad one used as a substitute for a roof. The line between those two runs along the pitch of your roof, and it is sharper in this market than in most.
Roof Ventilation
Ventilation in a northern market is an ice-dam question. On this parish it is a heat question, and framing it the northern way is how most of the local ventilation work ends up being done badly and sold anyway.
Skylights
Skylights are the one product on this list where our honest advice, more often than not, is a smaller one or none at all. That has very little to do with leaks and almost everything to do with the sun this parish gets.
Gutters and Downspouts
A gutter in most of the country is a drainage component. On this parish it is also a structural one for about forty-eight hours a year, and that is the load nobody bothers to size for when they quote you a price per foot.
Fascia and Soffit
Fascia and soffit get treated as trim almost everywhere. In this climate the fascia is the piece taking the ice load and the soffit is where half the roof's air is supposed to enter, so we treat both of them as roofing work rather than as carpentry.
Chimney Flashing
A chimney is a hole cut through a roof plane with masonry standing in it, and on this parish there is one question worth asking before any of the flashing work gets quoted at all. Is this chimney still doing anything?
Emergency Tarping
Tarping after wind or a fallen limb is straightforward work. Tarping after an ice event is not, and the honest advice in that case is usually to wait, which is not what an emergency service is supposed to tell you.
Commercial Roofing
Commercial work in this region is retail strips, medical offices, churches, schools, warehouses and light industrial, and nearly all of it is low slope. That geometry is what makes a transition-zone climate harder on a commercial roof than on a house.
Insurance Claim Help
The hard part of a roof claim in north Louisiana is not the damage. It is the date.
Why Shreveport Chooses Shreveport Roof Pros
- ✓We quote impact class before wind class, because this parish sits nowhere near the 140 mph ultimate design wind speed the code uses to draw a wind-borne debris region.
- ✓No eave membrane runs the whole deck on a Shreveport house. Nothing here builds a snowpack to dam behind, and the plan shows you where that membrane stops paying for itself.
- ✓Winter inspections are done at the thaw rather than during the event, because a glazed roof hides every defect it just caused and walking one is how people get hurt.
- ✓Fascia is measured and priced alongside the gutter, since a trough packed with ice pulls through soft pine long before it pulls a hanger out of anything.
- ✓The proposal names which Louisiana roofing rules apply at your project value, including the ones that mean the job is small enough not to need us.
- ✓Gutter guards are refused outright on any run sitting under pine here, and we say so before you have paid for them rather than after the first November.
About Shreveport Roof Pros in Shreveport, LA
Shreveport Roof Pros works Shreveport, Bossier City, Blanchard, Haughton, Stonewall, Benton, Minden and the smaller towns strung along US 71 and LA 1 through the north end of Caddo Parish. Most of what we touch is asphalt: laminated shingles on the postwar ranch stock through Broadmoor and Queensborough, steeper cut-up rooflines on the older houses inside the Highland and South Highlands historic districts, and low-slope tie-ins over porches and carports that were added later.
Our argument with the rest of the trade in this region is about where the money goes. Caddo Parish sits outside every coastal boundary Louisiana draws, so a package assembled for a hurricane wind field has no local rule behind it here. We would rather put that budget into impact-rated covering, solid decking and edge hardware that survives an ice load, and we will show you on the plan where each dollar stops earning.
Some jobs we send away. A roof under ten years old showing one stained corner needs a leak traced and a boot changed, not a salesman on the doorstep. Where somebody has talked you into filing on granule loss we can see is ordinary wear, we put that in writing first. And when the budget covers half a roof, we stage it across two seasons rather than sell you a thin whole one.
Service Areas
Shreveport Roof Pros serves Shreveport, LA and surrounding communities including:
How It Works
A Slope-by-Slope Look, Then the Attic
First pass is from the ground with binoculars. Then onto any slope that will carry weight, with a pole camera over the ones that will not, and finally the attic with the light off. Daylight at the deck seams, staining on the rafter tails and a soft patch under the eave tell you more about a north Louisiana roof than the shingles do, and it is the only way to separate a live leak from a stain that dried out two winters ago.
A Written Scope With Unit Prices
You get a scope that names the covering, the impact class, the underlayment, where the eave membrane starts and stops, and a per-sheet price for decking and a per-foot price for fascia. Those two numbers are the ones that move on a house built before 1980, which is nearly sixty percent of the housing in this parish, so we settle them before anything comes off.
Permit First, Then Tear-Off
The permit goes in through the Shreveport Division of Permits and Inspections at Government Plaza, which handles the whole of Caddo Parish apart from the town of Greenwood. State law has made that inspection mandatory since August 2025, run against Chapters 8 and 9 of the residential code. The permit is taken out in our name, never in yours.
Closeout, Then a Spring Return
At the end you get dated photographs of every plane, the closed permit, the lien releases and the warranty on its own sheet. Then we book one more visit for the following spring, after the first hard rain that follows a freeze. Around here that visit is where the damage from a January ice event finally shows itself, months after anybody stopped looking.
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What Shreveport Customers Say
Two companies quoted me a coastal wind package with a straight face. These guys pulled up the code definition, showed me our parish is nowhere near the threshold that triggers any of it, and put the difference into a Class 4 shingle and new decking instead. Cheaper roof, better roof, and they wrote down why.
The ceiling stain showed up in April and I assumed the spring storms did it. They traced it back to the freeze in January, showed me the split boot in a photo, and charged me for a repair rather than talking me into a claim. Came back in the spring like they said they would.
What I did not expect was the fascia conversation. They pulled the gutter, showed me the pine behind it was soft the whole run, and priced it by the foot before starting. Every other bid had the gutter as one number and would have found that on the day and charged me whatever.
Asked about the state grant for a fortified roof and got a straight no, we are not in the eligible area, instead of a maybe. Then they explained the new roofing license classification and told me to check them on the board site myself. I did. They were on it.
Commercial Roofing in Shreveport and Across the Ark-La-Tex
We roof and maintain retail strips, medical offices, churches, schools, warehouses and small industrial buildings across Shreveport, Bossier City, Minden and the surrounding parishes.
Nearly all of it is low slope, which in this climate means two problems at once: fifty-one inches of rain a year has to leave the roof faster than it arrives, and a glaze event sits longest on exactly the flat planes that drain slowest.
We survey drainage before we price a membrane, and if the answer is tapered insulation rather than a thicker sheet, that is what goes on the proposal, harder sell or not.
- ✓TPO and EPDM at 60 or 80 mil, adhered over concrete and mechanically attached over steel deck
- ✓SBS-modified bitumen in two plies wherever monthly service traffic means somebody is walking the roof
- ✓Tapered polyiso built to a quarter-inch-per-foot drain slope instead of adding sheet thickness over a flat deck
- ✓Existing modified bitumen recoated with a reinforced acrylic when the field is sound and the seams are not
- ✓Rooftop unit curbs reflashed and raised where the original curb sits too low for standing water
- ✓Interior drain and scupper capacity checked against real roof area, not against what was there before
- ✓Night and weekend tear-offs scheduled around trading hours for occupied retail
- ✓Annual survey with a photographed plan of every penetration, seam and drain
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a roofer in Shreveport have to be licensed by the state?
Yes, and the rule changed recently. R.S. 37:2156.4 created a Residential Roofing classification effective January 1, 2026, applying to any residential roofing work valued at $7,500 or more. Before that, only a Residential Construction or Building Construction license covered a house roof.
The trap to watch for is the Home Improvement registration: it runs from $7,500 to under $50,000 and the statute expressly forbids the holder from performing a roofing system of any type. Look the company up on the state board's license search before you sign anything.
Is a roofing permit required in Shreveport, and who issues it?
Yes. The city's Division of Permits and Inspections lists residential and commercial roofing among the work requiring one, and since August 2025 it has been a statewide statutory duty rather than a local preference. Any jurisdiction that issues permits has to permit and inspect reroofing on a house against Chapters 8 and 9 of the International Residential Code.
The Shreveport office at Government Plaza covers all of Caddo Parish except the town of Greenwood, so most addresses in the area answer to the same counter.
Can I get the Louisiana Fortify Homes grant for a roof in Caddo Parish?
No, and we would rather tell you now than let you plan around it. That program is aimed at the coastal parishes and the higher wind zone, and northwest Louisiana falls outside the eligible area. The standard behind it is built around uplift in a hurricane wind field.
Caddo Parish sits roughly a hundred and ninety miles from the nearest Gulf shoreline, and the building code reserves its wind-borne debris region for the coast, drawing that line at a 140 mph design wind speed or 130 within a mile of open water. Ask which local rule requires a coastal package here.
Is hail actually a problem this far east of Texas?
More than people down south assume and less than people from Dallas assume. The federal storm events record logs 227 hail reports for Caddo Parish between 2005 and 2024, against 35 for Jefferson Parish over the same twenty years.
Counted another way, hail an inch or larger falls near this city on roughly three or four days a year, about half the Dallas rate and better than twice the New Orleans rate, with March through May carrying most of it.
That gap is the clearest single reason a Shreveport roof and a south Louisiana roof should not be specified the same way.
How bad do ice storms get here, and does my roof need to be built for them?
Infrequent, and ugly when it lands. The federal record logs eight ice storms for Caddo Parish between 1996 and 2000. December 2000 put down about an inch, snapped twenty-nine transmission towers, blocked over two hundred streets in this metro with fallen limbs and cut power to some 235,000 people.
January of that year accreted one to four inches and collapsed hundreds of carports and poultry houses. But it is gone in a day or two, and measurable snow falls here about every other winter. Your roof does not need a northern ice-dam assembly. It needs sound decking, solid fascia behind the gutter and edge metal that holds.
How long does a roof last in Shreveport before it needs replacing?
Heat sets the clock here more than storms do. The airport averages about ninety-nine days a year at or above ninety degrees and roughly eleven at or above a hundred, and that thermal load ages an asphalt covering steadily whether or not anything dramatic happens.
A laminated shingle installed properly and vented properly usually gets somewhere in the twenty to twenty-five year range on this parish. What ends it early is almost always an under-vented attic, a nail line driven high, or hail in a spring nobody documented.