1,886 roofing listings are recorded across 356 Michigan cities and towns in this directory; 141 of those places have enough listings to carry a page of their own, and the rest are reachable through search.
Michigan licenses roofing contractors at state level; the class that covers roofing is Residential Maintenance & Alteration (M&A) Contractor license carrying the Roofing classification, or the broader Residential Builder license. Roofing is confirmed on LARA's own page as one of the M&A trades — the full list is carpentry, concrete, excavation, insulation work, masonry, siding, ROOFING, screens and storm sash, gutters, tile and marble, house wrecking, swimming pools, and basement waterproofing. The trades a contractor is qualified to practice are printed on the license.. The Michigan roofing license page sets out who issues it, what it costs to hold and how to verify one. A credential can be checked on the authority's own site.
Michigan's peak severe-weather season: May–August for severe, November–March for winter. The roofing work it generates comes from straight-line wind, hail, snow load and winter storms and ice storms. The Michigan storm center lists any National Weather Service alert active now.NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 3,983 county-level severe-weather events across Michigan between 2016 and 2026, including 161 tornadoes and 656 hail reports of 1.00 in or larger; the heaviest county record is Oakland County's, with 205 events. The most recent event in the state meeting the dataset's severity definition was a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 kt (about 69 mph) in Benzie County on August 19, 2026, a preliminary report not yet through NOAA's quality-control review.
Our cost model carries no regional index for a Michigan metro yet, so the figure to plan around is the national baseline, which puts a full roof replacement at $5,625–$27,000. Local labor, permit fees and roof access move it in both directions.
Roofing in Michigan: questions answered from the data
How many roofing contractors are listed in Michigan?
1,886 roofing listings are recorded across 356 Michigan cities and towns in this directory; 141 of those places have enough listings to carry a page of their own, and the rest are reachable through search. A listing is a location record; the ranked lists on this site collapse a company that serves many towns to one card, so the number of companies shown is lower than the number of listings counted.
Which Michigan cities have the most roofing contractors?
By listing count, Grand Rapids (145), Detroit (110), Lansing (74), Ann Arbor (47) and Troy (45) lead the state. Every Michigan place with listings is linked in the city index further down this page.
Does Michigan require a roofing license?
Yes. Michigan licenses roofing contractors at state level; the class that covers roofing is Residential Maintenance & Alteration (M&A) Contractor license carrying the Roofing classification, or the broader Residential Builder license. Roofing is confirmed on LARA's own page as one of the M&A trades — the full list is carpentry, concrete, excavation, insulation work, masonry, siding, ROOFING, screens and storm sash, gutters, tile and marble, house wrecking, swimming pools, and basement waterproofing. The trades a contractor is qualified to practice are printed on the license.. The Michigan roofing license page sets out who issues it, what it costs to hold and how to verify one. A credential can be checked on the authority's own site.
When is storm season in Michigan?
Michigan's peak severe-weather season: May–August for severe, November–March for winter. The roofing work it generates comes from straight-line wind, hail, snow load and winter storms and ice storms. The Michigan storm center lists any National Weather Service alert active now.NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 3,983 county-level severe-weather events across Michigan between 2016 and 2026, including 161 tornadoes and 656 hail reports of 1.00 in or larger; the heaviest county record is Oakland County's, with 205 events. The most recent event in the state meeting the dataset's severity definition was a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 kt (about 69 mph) in Benzie County on August 19, 2026, a preliminary report not yet through NOAA's quality-control review. Season boundaries are National Weather Service climatology for the state, not a forecast for any one property.
How much does a roof replacement cost in Michigan?
Our cost model carries no regional index for a Michigan metro yet, so the figure to plan around is the national baseline, which puts a full roof replacement at $5,625–$27,000. Local labor, permit fees and roof access move it in both directions. Nobody has priced your roof from this page; plan around a written quote from a contractor who has been on it.