3 Eagle Elite Roofing
RCAT Member
3 Eagle Elite Roofing is a residential and commercial roofing contractor based at 2424 Katy Hockley Cut Off Rd in...
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Roofing companies in Harris County, Texas
The RCAT-listed roofing companies serving Harris County, Texas's largest metro, where roofing permits and code differ by city. Compare them below and request free quotes.
314 Roofing Solutions
GAF Master EliteBBB Accredited A
314 Roofing Solutions is a residential and commercial roofing contractor based at 6824 N. Sam Houston Pkwy W. in Houston....
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ABA Roofing Group
RCAT Member
ABA Roofing Group's Houston office operates at 2002 Wycliffe Dr, under contact Olen Gutierrez, and is a member of the...
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Achilles Roofing & Exterior
GAF CertifiedBBB Accredited A
Achilles Roofing & Exterior is a Houston-area roofing and exterior contractor founded by Ahmad Faiz, who brought 18 years of...
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Advanced Roofing Solutions
BBB Accredited A
Advanced Roofing Solutions is a family-owned roofing contractor founded in 2008 by Timothy R. Payne, serving the Greater Houston area...
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Aesthetic Roofing Systems
GAF CertifiedBBB Accredited A
Aesthetic Roofing Systems is a residential and commercial roofing contractor based in Pasadena, Texas, owned by Ivan Murphy. BBB records...
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All Over Exterior Roofing
RCAT LicensedGAF Master Elite
All Over Exterior Roofing is a family owned residential and commercial roofing contractor based at 10050 Northwest Freeway, Suite 130,...
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RCAT licence#01-0572
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All Texans Home Improvement
BBB Accredited A
All Texans Home Improvement, LLC is a Houston area remodeling and roofing contractor in northwest Harris County, in business since...
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Amstill Roofing
RCAT LicensedOC Platinum Preferred
Amstill Roofing is a Houston roofing contractor that traces back to September 1, 1974, when Frank Stilley founded the business...
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RCAT licence#01-0483
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Anvil Roofers
OC Preferred ContractorBBB Accredited A
Anvil Roofers is a Houston roofing company founded in 2018 by local residents Caleb Keith and Sam Wooten, who set...
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Apollo Roofing
RCAT Member
Apollo Roofing is a residential and commercial roofing company based at 21239 FM 529 Road in Cypress, Texas, serving the...
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Brinkmann Quality Roofing Services
RCAT LicensedGAF Master Elite with President's Club
Brinkmann Quality Roofing Services is a family run roofing contractor at 4311 FM 2351 Rd in Friendswood, in unincorporated Harris...
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RCAT licence#03-0665
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Bueno Roofing
RCAT Member
Bueno Roofing Inc. is a family owned and operated roofing and exterior contractor based at 5144 East Sam Houston Pkwy...
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Core Four Roofing
BBB Accredited A+
Core Four Roofing, LLC is a Tomball based residential and commercial roofing contractor operating out of 22955 State Highway 249,...
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Courtesy Roofing
BBB Accredited A+
Courtesy Roofing, Inc. is a family run roofing contractor at 15515 Garrett Road, Houston, TX 77044, in Harris County, working...
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D7 Roofing & Metal
RCAT Licensed
D7 Roofing & Metal is a Houston roofing contractor operating from 8701 W Hardy Rd in the 77022 area of...
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RCAT licence#03-0178
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DC Pines Roofing
BBB Accredited A+
DC Pines Roofing is a veteran owned residential and commercial roofing contractor working from a Midtown Houston office at 2808...
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Eldridge Home Improvements
GAF Master EliteBBB Accredited
Eldridge Home Improvements is a family-owned home exterior and restoration company serving the greater Houston area, founded in 1998 according...
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RCAT licence#03-0207
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Elite Roofing
GAF Master EliteOC Preferred Contractor
Elite Roofing LLC is a storm restoration focused roofing contractor headquartered at 900 Apollo Street in the Clear Lake area...
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EZ Roof and Construction
RCAT LicensedGAF Certified Plus
EZ Roof and Construction, LLC is a full-service roofing company based at 6613 W Sam Houston Pkwy N in northwest...
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RCAT licence#01-0282
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Graziano Roofing of Texas
GAF CertifiedBBB Accredited A+
Graziano Roofing of Texas is a Houston tile, slate, and metal roofing specialist operating from 4134 Pinemont Drive. The company...
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Heart Roofing
GAF Certified
Heart Roofing is a small husband-and-wife roofing company in the Westbury area of southwest Houston, operating from 5322 W Bellfort...
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RCAT licence#01-0730
Status RCAT verified
HHH Roofing & Construction
RCAT LicensedGAF Certified
HHH Roofing & Construction is a residential and commercial roofing contractor based in Spring, in northern Harris County, serving the...
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RCAT licence#03-0470
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Home Restorer P&G
GAF CertifiedBBB Accredited A+
Home Restorer P&G is a Cypress based roofing and exterior contractor working across the greater Houston area. The company operates...
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Half a dozen roofing rulebooks
Harris County does not have one roofing rulebook, it has half a dozen. With more than 4.7 million residents across Houston and cities like Katy, Cypress, Tomball, Pasadena, Kingwood, and Friendswood, a reroof permit here can mean the Houston Permitting Center, the Harris County Engineer's office, or a standalone city building department, depending on which side of a street the house sits on. Houston compounds this by being the largest US city with no formal zoning code (voters rejected it in 1946, 1962, and 1993), so roof work is not restricted by the use-district rules that apply in Dallas or Austin. That does not mean anything goes: a permit is still required, and private deed restrictions or an HOA committee often do the work zoning would otherwise do.
Permitting inside the City of Houston
Inside Houston, the Houston Permitting Center (houstonpermittingcenter.org, 832-394-8820) requires a building permit for any roof replacement or overlay, filed with an online application plus a Residential Re-roof Worksheet kept on site; the base reroof fee runs about $147. No contractor license is required to pull that permit (Texas has none, and neither does Houston), but the city runs a Voluntary Roofer Registration Program through its Code Enforcement office at 3300 Main Street: registered contractors carry at least $500,000 in liability coverage from a B+ or better rated carrier and appear on a public registry, and homeowners can report unpermitted roof work to the city's Roofing Hotline, 713-837-ROOF. Houston City Council adopted the 2021 International Building and Residential Codes on October 25, 2023, effective January 1, 2024.
Unincorporated Harris County
Step outside the city line into unincorporated Harris County, in much of Cypress and parts of Katy, and permitting authority shifts to the Harris County Engineer's Permits Office at 1111 Fannin Street, which reviews roofing work through its e-Permits portal and still operates on the 2018 International Building Code, adopted county wide in September 2019. Harris County has no zoning either, so in unincorporated subdivisions it is deed restrictions and, increasingly, a Municipal Utility District or homeowners association, not a zoning board, that governs what a reroof looks like from the street.
The incorporated suburbs
The incorporated suburbs add their own layers. Pasadena requires a permit for every roof replacement through its City Hall counter. Tomball's roofing permit application demands proof of at least $500,000 in contractor liability insurance before the city will issue it. Katy sits at the meeting point of Harris, Fort Bend, and Waller counties, so whether a homeowner needs a city or a county permit depends on which line their lot falls on. Friendswood is split by an actual county line, part Harris, part Galveston: the Galveston side requires a WPI-8 windstorm certificate with no separate city inspection, while the Harris side skips WPI-8 but requires the city's own final inspection instead. Kingwood, despite still going by "the Lake Houston area," has been inside Houston's city limits since Houston annexed it at 11:59 p.m. on December 31, 1996, so its permits run through the Houston Permitting Center like the rest of the city.
Windstorm: the Highway 146 exception
That Friendswood split points to the county's real windstorm story. Harris County is not one of the 14 first-tier TWIA coastal counties (Aransas, Brazoria, Calhoun, Cameron, Chambers, Galveston, Jefferson, Kenedy, Kleberg, Matagorda, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio, Willacy), so WPI-8 and TWIA windstorm coverage are not part of most roofing jobs here. But the Texas Department of Insurance extends Tier II catastrophe-area eligibility to one pocket of the county: property inside the city limits, east of State Highway 146, in La Porte, Morgan's Point, Pasadena, Seabrook, and Shoreacres. A roofer working in eastern Pasadena, one of our listed cities, may occasionally handle a WPI-8 filing that a crew in Katy or Cypress never will.
Hail and hurricane exposure
What Harris County lacks in coastal windstorm rules, it makes up for in hail and hurricane wind exposure. Verisk's 2022 hail report counted damaging hail across 169,579 Harris County properties in 2021 alone, inside the broader Hail Alley belt stretching north into the Plains. Hurricane Harvey's August 2017 rainfall flooded an estimated 136,000 structures countywide, per the Harris County Flood Control District, mostly a flood story, but one that still left roofs with wind and debris damage flood policies do not cover. Hurricane Beryl made landfall as a Category 1 storm on July 8, 2024, with gusts near 90 mph in parts of the metro, tearing shingles and underlayment loose and knocking out power for over a week in some neighborhoods. The Houston Better Business Bureau fielded a wave of storm-chaser complaints in Beryl's aftermath, a pattern to watch for after any hail or wind event here.
A roofing market at metro scale
The market matches the county's scale: Texas's largest residential roofing market, and, given Houston's industrial and medical-center footprint, one of the state's largest commercial TPO markets too. On the Harris Central Appraisal District's rolls, roof age and condition are factors that can move a home's assessed value.
The companies we list in Harris County
We list 105 RCAT-network roofing companies across the county's cities, including Amstill Roofing and All Over Exterior Roofing in Houston, Acadian Roofing in Tomball, Achilles Roofing & Exterior in Cypress, Advanced Roofing Solutions in Katy, Aesthetic Roofing Systems in Pasadena, and Brinkmann Quality Roofing Services in Friendswood. We verify each against RCAT membership, liability insurance, and, where a city maintains one like Houston's voluntary registry, local registration status, so homeowners can ask which permitting office and code edition applies to their address before work starts.
Frequently asked questions
Who issues roofing permits in Harris County?
It depends on the address. Inside Houston, the Houston Permitting Center handles it. In unincorporated areas like much of Cypress and parts of Katy, it is the Harris County Engineer's Permits Office. Incorporated suburbs such as Pasadena, Tomball, Katy, and Friendswood each run their own city building department, and Katy and Friendswood can even split between two different counties depending on the exact lot.
Does the City of Houston require a roofing contractor to be licensed?
No. Texas has no statewide roofing license, and Houston does not require one to pull a roofing permit. Houston does run a Voluntary Roofer Registration Program that requires at least $500,000 in general liability insurance and a public listing, but registration is optional, not a prerequisite for permits.
Is Harris County one of the coastal counties that requires WPI-8 and TWIA coverage?
No. Harris County is not one of the 14 first-tier TWIA coastal counties. The one exception is a pocket of the county east of State Highway 146 inside the city limits of La Porte, Morgan's Point, Pasadena, Seabrook, and Shoreacres, which the Texas Department of Insurance includes in its Tier II catastrophe area. Homes there may need WPI-8 windstorm certification; the rest of the county, including most of Houston, Katy, Cypress, Tomball, and Kingwood, does not.
What building code applies to a reroof in Harris County?
Inside Houston, the 2021 International Building and Residential Codes apply, adopted by City Council on October 25, 2023 and effective January 1, 2024. In unincorporated Harris County, the County Engineer's office still enforces the 2018 International Building Code, adopted county wide in September 2019. Incorporated suburbs can differ again; Pasadena, for example, uses the 2024 IRC for residential work.
Why does Friendswood have two different roofing permit rules?
Friendswood sits on the Harris County/Galveston County line. Because Galveston is a first-tier TWIA coastal county and Harris is not, a reroof on the Galveston County side of Friendswood needs a WPI-8 windstorm filing with no separate city inspection, while a reroof on the Harris County side skips WPI-8 but requires the city's own final inspection.
What should I ask a roofer before hiring them in Harris County?
Ask which permitting office covers your specific address (Houston, the Harris County Engineer, or your suburb's building department), whether they carry the liability insurance your jurisdiction requires (Houston's registry and Tomball's permit process both look for at least $500,000), whether they are RCAT members, and whether your property falls in the small TWIA-eligible pocket east of Highway 146 in Pasadena or the neighboring bay-area cities.