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    395 roofing listings in Louisville, Kentucky · Jefferson County

    395 roofing listings are recorded at Louisville, Kentucky addresses. None of them has a Google rating matched to it yet, so what follows is contact detail rather than reputation data.

    All of them are recorded in Jefferson County. Roofing permits and inspections are issued locally rather than by the state, so a re-roof in Louisville goes through Jefferson County or the municipality's own building department, whichever holds jurisdiction at the property.

    Hiring a roofer in Louisville: what this page knows

    Kentucky issues no roofing license, so in Louisville the city or county's own registration and permit rules are the ones that apply; the Kentucky roofing license rules cover what the state does and does not regulate.

    Kentucky's peak severe-weather season: March–May, with a secondary autumn and winter season. The Kentucky storm center lists any National Weather Service alert active right now. NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 311 severe-weather events for Jefferson County between 2016 and 2026 — the county the listings on this page put Louisville in. The most recent event meeting the dataset's severity definition was a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 kt (about 74 mph) on August 16, 2026, a preliminary report that has not yet been through NOAA's quality-control review.

    We have not modeled a cost index for Louisville. The national baseline puts a full roof replacement at $5,625–$27,000 and a repair at $250–$3,500; local labor, permit fees and access move both.

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    Licensing for roofers working in Louisville

    No state license is required to roof a house in Kentucky; city or county licensing usually still applies. The state leaves the roofing specialty to local government.

    In practice that makes the local layer the one that matters in Louisville: a business license or contractor registration where the jurisdiction requires one, plus a permit and an inspection through Jefferson County or the city for the work itself.

    Source: official Kentucky guidance. Checked August 2026. Licensing rules change — verify before you sign anything.

    National baseline

    What roofing work costs

    We have not modeled a cost index for Louisville, so there is no Louisville figure here. These are the national baseline bands, unadjusted.

    $5,625–$27,000
    $250–$3,500
    $450–$12,000

    National reference bands, not quotes and not local numbers. Local labor rates, permit fees and access all move them.

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    Other Jefferson County towns with listings

    Same county, same inspections department, same code — these are the other Jefferson County places this directory has roofers for.

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    Storm history in Jefferson County

    Louisville has no weather record of its own — NOAA records severe weather against counties, and the listings on this page put Louisville in Jefferson County. These are weather records for the whole county, not an assessment of any building in Louisville.

    NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 311 severe-weather events recorded against Jefferson County between 2016 and 2026: 244 thunderstorm wind events, 56 hail reports and 11 tornadoes.

    Of the 56 hail reports, 48 measured 1.00 in across or larger and 8 measured under an inch. The largest on record is 2.00 in (Baseball) on July 20, 2018.

    The strongest wind gust in the record is 74 kt (about 85 mph), an estimated gust, on April 5, 2023. The county record holds 11 tornadoes over the same period.

    The busiest complete year in the record is 2025, with 56 events. The most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition is a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 kt (about 74 mph) on August 16, 2026. That one is a preliminary report and has not yet been through the quality-control review that produces the permanent archive.

    Events on record

    311

    2016–2026

    Hail 1.00 in or larger

    48

    of 56 hail reports

    Largest hail

    2.00 in

    Baseball · July 20, 2018

    Peak gust

    74 kt

    about 85 mph · April 5, 2023

    Tornadoes

    11

    in the county record

    Significant events

    80

    by this dataset's definition

    Events recorded per year

    2016
    40
    2017
    17
    2018
    55
    2019
    11
    2020
    17
    2021
    7
    2022
    23
    2023
    52
    2024
    26
    2025
    56
    2026*
    7

    * The most recent data year is partial. NOAA publishes storm reports on a rolling basis and the final months are still being processed, so a low count in the last year is not evidence of a quiet year. The curated archive behind these counts runs through May 31, 2026; anything later sits in the preliminary block below.

    Notable events in the archive

    • Apr 2, 2025 -- Tornado (EF3)
    • Apr 5, 2023 -- Thunderstorm Wind (74 kt gust)
    • Jul 20, 2018 -- Hail (Baseball hail, 2.00 in)
    • Jun 26, 2018 -- Tornado (EF1) -- $500K property damage reported
    • Mar 1, 2017 -- Thunderstorm Wind (53 kt gust) -- $100K property damage reported

    Selected by the dataset’s own rule rather than by editorial choice: the largest hail, the peak wind gust, the strongest tornado and the two costliest events by recorded property damage, deduplicated and newest first. Any dollar figure above is NOAA’s recorded estimate for that one event.

    Preliminary — not yet in the permanent archive

    43 preliminary storm reports have been filed for Jefferson County since June 1, 2026: 43 thunderstorm wind events. The strongest gust reported is 64 kt (about 74 mph), on August 16, 2026.

    Preliminary reports covering 2026-05-31 onward come from National Weather Service storm reports filed as events occur. They have not yet been through the quality-control review that produces the permanent archive, and individual reports may later be revised, combined or withdrawn. NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports.

    What these counts cover. County figures count events NOAA recorded against a county (hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes). High wind, winter storms, ice storms, blizzards, heavy snow, hurricanes and tropical storms are recorded against National Weather Service forecast zones rather than counties, so they are reported at state level instead. Counts reflect events that were observed and reported.

    “Significant” on this page means an event meeting any one of three tests: hail 1.00 in across or larger, a wind gust of 58 kt or more (the National Weather Service severe thunderstorm criterion), or any tornado. It is a severity definition used by this dataset and is not an official NOAA classification.

    The damage figure. $1,302,500 is the sum of NOAA’s recorded property-damage estimates across every event in Jefferson County over the period — a county total, not a figure for any one property, any one building or any one claim. NOAA records these figures as estimates made at the time of reporting. They are not adjusted for inflation, and they are frequently absent or zero — a zero means nothing was recorded, not that nothing was damaged.

    Source. Archived figures come from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Storm Events Database, covering 2016 through May 31, 2026. Anything after that date comes from NOAA Storm Prediction Center preliminary storm reports and is labelled preliminary wherever it appears. Both are US Government works in the public domain.

    Roofing in Louisville, KY: questions answered from the data

    How many roofing contractors are listed in Louisville, KY?

    395 roofing listings are recorded at Louisville, Kentucky addresses in this directory. The count is read from the directory's own database each time this page is rebuilt; a listing is a location record, and the list above shows one card per company.

    Does Kentucky require a roofing license?

    No. Kentucky issues no roofing license, so in Louisville the city or county's own registration and permit rules are the ones that apply; the Kentucky roofing license rules cover what the state does and does not regulate.

    How much does a roof replacement cost in Louisville?

    We have not modeled a cost index for Louisville. The national baseline puts a full roof replacement at $5,625–$27,000 and a repair at $250–$3,500; local labor, permit fees and access move both. Nobody has priced your roof from this page; the only number worth planning around is a written quote from a contractor who has been on it.

    When is storm season in Louisville?

    Kentucky's peak severe-weather season: March–May, with a secondary autumn and winter season. The Kentucky storm center lists any National Weather Service alert active right now. Season boundaries are National Weather Service climatology for the state, not a forecast for any one property.

    What was the most recent severe storm recorded near Louisville?

    In NOAA's record for Jefferson County, the most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition — hail 1.00 in or larger, a 58 kt gust, or any tornado — was a thunderstorm wind gust of 64 kt (about 74 mph) on August 16, 2026, a preliminary report not yet through quality-control review. The Jefferson County storm history on this page shows the full 2016–2026 record; it describes weather that happened, not the condition of any building.

    Which county handles roofing permits in Louisville?

    Every listing on this page is recorded in Jefferson County. Roofing permits and inspections are issued locally rather than by the state, so a re-roof in Louisville goes through the county or the municipality's own building department, whichever holds jurisdiction at the property.