Short answer: As of October 2026, the five highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Sioux Falls, SD-MN metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are Top Notch Roofing (88.1), Premier Systems Inc (84.0), Armour Roofing & Construction LLC (74.0), Juranek Home Improvement (69.0), 360 Builders Inc (54.1). All of them carry a verifiable manufacturer certification, every rating here was cross-checked against an independent record, and no money changed hands for any placement.
The Roofing Brief scored 5 certified roofing contractors serving the Sioux Falls metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top five individually to confirm its record. South Dakota does not license roofers, general contractors, or construction contractors in any form. It licenses electricians and plumbers, each through its own state commission, so the absence is a choice rather than an oversight. The only state registration a roofer holds is a Department of Revenue excise tax licence, and the statute is explicit that issuing it is ministerial: the application asks for a trading name and an address, there is no fee, no examination and no bond, and there is no public register to check it against. What fills the gap is municipal, and it is good. The City of Sioux Falls requires a passed examination, a $20,000 compliance bond and $300,000 of liability cover, and it publishes every licence holder by name. So whether you can verify anything at all about your roofer depends on which side of the city line your house sits.
What a Sioux Falls roof is up against
This is a serious hail market. Across 2016 to 2025 the counties of this metro logged 232 hail reports, 170 of them an inch or larger and 14 at two inches or more, alongside 337 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 17 tornado events. Counting severe-weather reports of every kind together, July leads with 169, then May with 126 and August with 125. The largest stone on the record is 3.50 inches at Renner on 5 August 2021, and the NWS Sioux Falls narrative for that day records that large hail produced significant roof damage along a path running from south of Dell Rapids through Renner to near Brandon. Heavy hail combined with no state licensing is the specific combination that draws travelling crews after a storm, which is why the questions below matter more here than in most places.
At state level there is nothing to check. South Dakota’s Department of Labor and Regulation licenses 33 occupations through boards and commissions, including electricians and plumbers, and roofing and general contracting appear on none of them. The only state credential is the contractor’s excise tax licence under SDCL chapter 10-46A, levied at 2 percent of gross receipts. Section 10-46A-15 requires an applicant to give only a trading name, the location of its places of business and such other information as the secretary may require; 10-46A-16 makes the licence valid without further payment of fees until cancelled or revoked; and where a bond is required under 10-46A-17 it secures unpaid tax rather than protecting the homeowner. There is no fee, no examination and no online lookup: verification is by telephone to the Department of Revenue. The only moment the number is put in front of a householder is when it is posted with the building permit on site.
The City of Sioux Falls does the work the state does not. It licenses two classes that cover roofing: a Residential Roofing and Repair licence, which is the narrow class covering shingling, siding and window and door replacement, and the broader Residential Building Contractor licence, which the city confirms also covers reshingling. Either requires the applicant to pass a timed open-book examination at 80 percent, post a $20,000 compliance bond, carry at least $300,000 of general liability insurance, renew on a three-year cycle and complete continuing education. The city’s amended version of code section R105.1 provides that other than a homeowner, nobody is issued a residential building permit without that licence. And the city publishes the full list of licence holders as a spreadsheet, giving the licence number, the company, the named individual who passed the examination and the expiry date. Every contractor below has been checked against it.
South Dakota does regulate the money, and two statutes are worth knowing after a hailstorm. SDCL 37-24-50 provides that no contractor supplying residential roofing goods and services may advertise or promise to pay or rebate all or part of an applicable insurance deductible, and that a contract entered into in breach is null and void. Note the precise scope: the verbs are advertise and promise, so a verbal offer to absorb your deductible is exactly the conduct the statute names. SDCL 37-24-51 separately gives a 72 hour right to cancel a storm-damage roofing contract, with a mandatory bold-faced notice. And there is a general three business day cancellation right for door-to-door sales of services under SDCL 37-24-5.1 to 5.3, which expressly covers visits the buyer invited. Transient merchant licensing is delegated to municipalities, so the rules on a crew knocking after a storm are set locally. One correction worth making plainly: a widely repeated claim that Minnehaha County exempts reroofing from permits is wrong, because that exemption sits in the county’s smoke alarm provisions and exempts a reroof from the smoke-alarm retrofit trigger, not from the permit.
The 5 best roofers in Sioux Falls, SD
Scored 2026-10-01. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Sioux Falls is 4.82, across a pool of 5 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Top Notch Roofing | 88.1 | Master Elite | 5.0 (333) | 4.977 | 2023 | Sioux Falls, SD |
| 2 | Premier Systems Inc | 84.0 | Master Elite | 4.9 (270) | 4.888 | 2002 | Sioux Falls, SD |
| 3 | Armour Roofing & Construction LLC | 74.0 | Master Elite | 4.8 (37) | 4.811 | 2017 | Tea, SD |
| 4 | Juranek Home Improvement | 69.0 | Certified | 5.0 (56) | 4.915 | 2013 | Sioux Falls, SD |
| 5 | 360 Builders Inc | 54.1 | Certified | 4.4 (7) | 4.768 | 2021 | Larchwood, IA |
1. Top Notch Roofing — TRB Score 88.1
Top Notch Roofing is based in Sioux Falls, SD, in business since 2023, led by Steven M Saenz, named licence holder on the City of Sioux Falls register, BBB accredited, A+ rating, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), City of Sioux Falls Residential Roofing & Repair licence no. 108, verified on the city register. Certification by more than one manufacturer is uncommon and requires meeting each programme’s separate standards for insurance, training and track record.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 24 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 39.1 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 15.0 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 88.1 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Residential Roofing & Repair licence no. 108, licence holder Steven M Saenz, valid to 1 March 2028, at 604 N Kiwanis Ave. Only 23 holders of this narrow roofing class are listed citywide.. City of Sioux Falls licensed contractor register
- Accredited with an A+ rating at the Sioux Falls address.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Residential roof replacement and repair.
Why it ranks here. The top score in the metro on Master Elite certification and a clean 5.0 across 333 reviews, the deepest flawless record here. It is also the only contractor on this page holding the city’s narrow Residential Roofing and Repair licence rather than the broader building contractor class, one of just 23 such licences citywide, with a named individual who passed the examination recorded against it and an expiry we could verify.
Best fit for: The default first call inside the Sioux Falls city limits, on the most specific roofing credential available locally.
What we would want clarified. It is the youngest firm ranked here, dating from 2023, so the perfect record rests on two years of trading. It publishes no manufacturer credential outside GAF and no state excise tax licence number, though no South Dakota contractor publishes one and there is no register to check it against. We could not read its own website, which refused our requests, so nothing here comes from the company itself. 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 (605) 400-4028, 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.
2. Premier Systems Inc — TRB Score 84.0
Premier Systems Inc is based in Sioux Falls, SD, in business since 2002, led by Scott L Meyer, President and named licence holder, with Kelly Swee as co-owner, BBB accredited, A+ rating, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), City of Sioux Falls Residential Building Contractor licence no. 14693, verified on the city register, DaVinci Contractor Program member (company claim). Certification by more than one manufacturer is uncommon and requires meeting each programme’s separate standards for insurance, training and track record.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 24 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 35.5 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 14.5 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 84.0 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Residential Building Contractor licence no. 14693, licence holder Scott L Meyer, valid to 1 March 2028, the class the city confirms covers reshingling.. City of Sioux Falls licensed contractor register
- Accredited with an A+ rating, listing Scott L Meyer as president.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Residential and commercial roof replacement and repair, with synthetic slate and shake among its published products.
Why it ranks here. Master Elite certification with 4.9 across 270 reviews and 23 years of trading, the longest history on this page. It is the only contractor here publishing a second manufacturer relationship, with DaVinci, whose synthetic slate and shake products are a genuine alternative in a hail market because they are rated for impact in a way standard asphalt is not.
Best fit for: Synthetic slate or shake on a hail-exposed house, and the longest local track record in the metro.
What we would want clarified. It holds the broader building contractor licence rather than the narrow roofing class, which is sufficient for reshingling but less specific. Its DaVinci membership is a company claim we could not confirm on the manufacturer’s directory. It publishes no state excise tax number, and its 4.9 rating sits just below the two clean 5.0 records on this page. 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 (605) 361-4955, 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.
3. Armour Roofing & Construction LLC — TRB Score 74.0
Armour Roofing & Construction LLC is based in Tea, SD, in business since 2017, led by Ryan A Kolb, named licence holder; the BBB lists Ryan A. Kolb and Tiffany B. Kolb as owners, Not accredited and carries no BBB rating; business started 14 July 2017, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), City of Sioux Falls Residential Building Contractor licence no. 11376, verified on the city register. Certification by more than one manufacturer is uncommon and requires meeting each programme’s separate standards for insurance, training and track record.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 24 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 32.5 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 9.4 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 8.1 | 10 |
| Total | 74.0 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Residential Building Contractor licence no. 11376, licence holder Ryan A Kolb, valid to 1 March 2028, registered to the company’s Spearfish address.. City of Sioux Falls licensed contractor register
- Records the business as starting 14 July 2017; not accredited and carrying no BBB rating.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Residential roof replacement and repair.
Why it ranks here. Master Elite certification with 4.8 across 37 reviews, based in Tea in Lincoln County, inside the metro, and holding a verified City of Sioux Falls licence with a named holder.
Best fit for: Homeowners in Lincoln County and the southern suburbs, having first resolved the questions above.
What we would want clarified. Two things to weigh. Its Better Business Bureau profile is not accredited and carries no rating at all, so there is no independent assessment to set against its registry rating, and its 37 reviews are much the thinnest customer record on this page. And its city licence is registered to a Spearfish address, on the far western side of South Dakota roughly 350 miles away, which suggests the business operates across the state; ask which office will actually staff your job. 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 (605) 490-2034, 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.
4. Juranek Home Improvement — TRB Score 69.0
Juranek Home Improvement is based in Sioux Falls, SD, in business since 2013, led by Shannon Juranek, named licence holder and general manager, with Dale Juranek also listed, BBB accredited since 31 December 2014, A+ rating; business start and incorporation recorded as 18 March 2013, and holds Certified standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Certified (GAF), City of Sioux Falls Residential Building Contractor licence no. 6128, verified on the city register. Certification by more than one manufacturer is uncommon and requires meeting each programme’s separate standards for insurance, training and track record.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 12 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 36.6 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 10.4 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 10.0 | 10 |
| Total | 69.0 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Residential Building Contractor licence no. 6128, licence holder Shannon Juranek, valid to 1 March 2028, at 6001 N Cliff Ave.. City of Sioux Falls licensed contractor register
- Accredited since 31 December 2014 with an A+ rating, with the business start and incorporation recorded as 18 March 2013.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Roofing alongside wider home improvement work including decks and exteriors.
Why it ranks here. A clean 5.0 across 56 reviews, BBB accredited at A+ since 2014, with a verified city licence and the lowest licence number of the five, reflecting a long-standing registration. Its founding date is independently corroborated by the BBB at 2013 rather than merely claimed.
Best fit for: A roof as part of wider exterior work, from a long-accredited local firm.
What we would want clarified. Roofing is one line in a general home improvement business, and the BBB files it under deck builder rather than roofing contractor, so ask who does the roofing and whether the crew is employed or subcontracted. It holds base-tier GAF Certified status rather than Master Elite, which is why it ranks fourth despite the perfect rating, and 56 reviews is a modest base. It publishes no manufacturer credential outside GAF. 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 (605) 339-4700, 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.
5. 360 Builders Inc — TRB Score 54.1
360 Builders Inc is based in Larchwood, IA, in business since 2021, led by Ashton C Larsen, named licence holder on the City of Sioux Falls register, and holds Certified standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Certified (GAF), City of Sioux Falls Residential Building Contractor licence no. 9892, verified on the city register, Owens Corning preferred installer (company claim), Malarkey asphalt shingle preferred installer (company claim), Euroshield rubber roofing authorised installer (company claim). Certification by more than one manufacturer is uncommon and requires meeting each programme’s separate standards for insurance, training and track record.
| Score component | Points | Max |
|---|---|---|
| Certification tier | 12 | 35 |
| Adjusted rating | 30.7 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 5.4 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 6.0 | 10 |
| Total | 54.1 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- Residential Building Contractor licence no. 9892, licence holder Ashton C Larsen, valid to 1 March 2028, recorded at a Sioux Falls address.. City of Sioux Falls licensed contractor register
- GAF lists 360 Builders Inc of Larchwood, IA in its residential contractor directory.. GAF contractor directory
What they actually do. Residential roof replacement in asphalt, with rubber roofing among its published products, across Minnehaha and Lincoln counties.
Why it ranks here. The broadest manufacturer range claimed on this page, with Owens Corning, Malarkey and Euroshield rubber roofing alongside GAF, and both Minnehaha and Lincoln counties plainly inside its published service area: its own page names Sioux Falls plus a long list of communities in both counties. Despite the Iowa address on its registry listing it holds a City of Sioux Falls licence recorded at a Sioux Falls address, with a named holder.
Best fit for: A rubber or non-asphalt roof, and homeowners in the outlying communities of either county.
What we would want clarified. The numbers behind it are thin and the records disagree. It carries 4.4 across just 7 reviews, by a wide margin the weakest and shallowest record on this page, and it has no Better Business Bureau profile at all; a similarly named Sioux Falls entity on the BBB is a different home-building business. Its registry listing gives a Larchwood, Iowa address in Lyon County, outside this metro, with a toll-free number, while its city licence records a Sioux Falls address. All three manufacturer credentials are company claims we could not verify, and we found no Iowa contractor registration for it. 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 (866) 860-7119, 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.
The 170 hail reports behind a Sioux Falls 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 5 counties of the Sioux Falls, SD-MN statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 232 hail reports, 337 severe thunderstorm and high wind reports and 17 tornadoes. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $17.3 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
The biggest hail to fall on Sioux Falls in a decade
| Date | Stone size | Reported near | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2021 | 3.5 in | Renner | Minnehaha |
| 22 July 2023 | 2.75 in | Unityville | Mccook |
| 28 April 2025 | 2.75 in | Beaver Creek | Rock |
| 5 August 2021 | 2.5 in | Renner | Minnehaha |
| 13 July 2023 | 2.5 in | Magnolia | Rock |
| 22 July 2023 | 2.5 in | Salem | Mccook |
The largest stone on record for this metro fell on 5 August 2021 near Renner, measured at 3.5 inches. That is baseball sized, comfortably past the point where a roof is written off rather than repaired.
Wind. The strongest thunderstorm gust logged in the metro was 109 knots, about 125 mph, near Canistota on 12 May 2022. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
Tornadoes. 17 tornadoes touched down in these counties over the decade, the strongest rated EF2 near Tea on 10 September 2019.
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 12 May 2022 event near Salem, reproduced verbatim:
A 40 by 60 foot outbuilding was destroyed by thunderstorm winds. The single family home next door lost some shingles and had a broken front window.
That is the kind of damage a roof in this metro has to be specified against, described by the agency that recorded it rather than by a contractor selling the repair.
When it happens. Severe weather reports cluster in July (169), May (126), August (125). The worst years on record were 2022 (150), 2021 (98), 2025 (79). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Sioux Falls, 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. Sioux Falls sees enough damaging hail that a Class 4 impact-rated shingle is worth pricing, though not automatically worth buying. Get both quotes and weigh the premium against any insurance discount.
What you can verify about a Sioux Falls roofer, and where you stop being able to
The honest version of this page’s licensing story is geographic rather than statewide. Inside the Sioux Falls city limits a homeowner has a genuinely good tool: the city publishes a spreadsheet of every licensed contractor, giving the licence class, the licence number, the company name, the individual who sat and passed the examination, and the expiry date. You can look up a roofer in about a minute and see a named human being who has been tested. That is better than many states in this programme manage.
Step outside the city limits into unincorporated Minnehaha or Lincoln County and all of it disappears. Neither county licenses contractors. The state does not either. The excise tax number the contractor quotes cannot be checked online because the Department of Revenue publishes no lookup for it. On a rural address in this metro there is, in practice, nothing to verify beyond insurance certificates and references you chase yourself.
It is worth seeing how unusual that is regionally. Minnesota, one state east, licenses residential roofers at state level through the Department of Labor and Industry under chapter 326B. Iowa, to the south-east, requires contractors doing business in the state to register with the director under Iowa Code chapter 91C. South Dakota does neither. A crew that cannot lawfully knock on a door in Luverne, Minnesota without a state licence can cross into unincorporated Minnehaha County and work unlicensed and unregistered.
So the questions that substitute for a licence check here are specific. Ask for the City of Sioux Falls licence number and the name of the individual holder on it, then check both against the city’s published list rather than taking the number on trust. Ask whether that person will be on your job. Ask for the certificate of insurance from the insurer rather than the contractor, and confirm the $300,000 minimum is actually in force. If your address is outside the city, ask whether the firm holds the city licence anyway, because many do and it is the only tested credential available in this market. And read SDCL 37-24-50 before anyone offers to cover your deductible.
City of Sioux Falls licences held by the ranked contractors, from the city’s published register
| Contractor | Licence class and number | Named licence holder | Valid to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Top Notch Roofing | Residential Roofing & Repair no. 108 | Steven M Saenz | 1 March 2028 |
| Premier Systems Inc | Residential Building Contractor no. 14693 | Scott L Meyer | 1 March 2028 |
| Armour Roofing & Construction LLC | Residential Building Contractor no. 11376 | Ryan A Kolb | 1 March 2028 |
| Juranek Home Improvement | Residential Building Contractor no. 6128 | Shannon Juranek | 1 March 2028 |
| 360 Builders Inc | Residential Building Contractor no. 9892 | Ashton C Larsen | 1 March 2028 |
Source: SDCL ch. 10-46A; SDCL 37-24-50 and 37-24-51; South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation list of licensed occupations; City of Sioux Falls contractor licensing and published licence-holder register; Minnesota Statutes ch. 326B; Iowa Code ch. 91C.
What a Sioux Falls homeowner should ask for in writing
There is no state roofing licence in SD. South Dakota issues no state contractor licence and no state roofing licence. The Department of Labor and Regulation’s own index of state occupational licensing lists 33 boards and programmes, including an Electrical Commission and a Plumbing Commission, and there is no roofing or general contractor board among them. The only state credential a roofer holds is a contractor’s excise tax licence from the Department of Revenue under SDCL chapter 10-46A, levied at 2 percent of gross receipts, and the statute makes issuing it ministerial: SDCL 10-46A-16 provides that the secretary shall grant and issue a licence to each applicant, and the sole ground for refusal under 10-46A-17 is being delinquent on tax. There is no examination, experience, insurance or bond requirement anywhere in the chapter.
What exists instead is municipal, and in the Sioux Falls area it is substantial. The City of Sioux Falls licenses a Residential Roofing and Repair Contractor class in its own right: a timed open-book written examination on the city’s handbook with an 80 percent pass mark, a $20,000 compliance bond, general liability cover of at least $300,000, and a three-year licence cycle. The city’s amended version of code section R105.1 provides that other than a homeowner, nobody is issued a residential building permit without that licence. South Dakota also regulates the money: SDCL 37-24-50 provides that no contractor supplying residential roofing goods and services may advertise or promise to pay or rebate all or part of any applicable insurance deductible, and that a contract entered into in breach is null and void.
That absence is the most important fact on this page. Where a state issues no credential, a manufacturer certification that can be revoked is the only quality signal a homeowner can actually check, which is why this ranking is built on certification rather than star ratings.
Check here: City of Sioux Falls currently licensed contractors list. Where your roof sits decides what you can check. Inside the Sioux Falls city limits you can look up the licensed company and the named individual who passed the examination on the city’s published contractor list. Outside them, in unincorporated Minnehaha or Lincoln County, neither the county nor the state licenses roofers at all, and the state excise tax number a contractor quotes cannot be verified online because the Department of Revenue publishes no lookup for it. Note too that the statutory ban is on advertising or promising to pay your deductible, so a verbal offer to absorb it is exactly the conduct the law names.
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 deep the Sioux Falls certified market really is
5 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Sioux Falls, SD-MN statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 703 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.82. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 308,266, a change of 7.62% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Sioux Falls rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Sioux Falls, SD-MN 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 5 certified contractors, of whom 0 hold President’s Club standing and 3 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.82. The top five were then researched individually against Better Business Bureau records, state licence registers and manufacturer directories. Good and bad findings are published together, and no contractor paid for a place here.
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: 2026-10-01. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
Questions Sioux Falls homeowners ask
Who is the best roofer in Sioux Falls, SD?
Top Notch Roofing of Sioux Falls, SD scores highest in the Sioux Falls metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score, at 88.1 out of 100 as of October 2026. It holds Master Elite certification with a 5.0 rating across 333 reviews. Highest-scoring is not the same as best fit for your specific job, and the four companies behind it score within 34.0 points.
How many certified roofing contractors serve Sioux Falls?
5 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Sioux Falls, SD-MN statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Sioux Falls get?
The Sioux Falls, SD-MN statistical area recorded 170 hail reports of 1 inch or larger and 14 of 2 inches or larger between 2016 and 2025 in the NOAA Storm Events Database. The largest hailstone reported measured 3.5 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 five.
What was the worst hailstorm in Sioux Falls in the last ten years?
The largest hailstone logged by the National Weather Service in the Sioux Falls, SD-MN statistical area between 2016 and 2025 measured 3.5 inches, reported near Renner on 5 August 2021. That is baseball sized, comfortably past the point where a roof is written off rather than repaired. Across the decade the metro recorded 232 hail reports. Reported property damage from hail, severe wind and tornado over that decade totalled $17.3 million; flood and winter-storm losses are counted separately and are not included.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Sioux Falls?
Severe-weather reports in the Sioux Falls, SD-MN statistical area cluster in July, May, August, on the NOAA record for 2016 to 2025. Scheduling discretionary work away from that window tends to get you a better crew and a faster start, because nobody is juggling emergency callouts.
Do roofers need a licence in SD?
South Dakota issues no state contractor licence and no state roofing licence. The Department of Labor and Regulation’s own index of state occupational licensing lists 33 boards and programmes, including an Electrical Commission and a Plumbing Commission, and there is no roofing or general contractor board among them. The only state credential a roofer holds is a contractor’s excise tax licence from the Department of Revenue under SDCL chapter 10-46A, levied at 2 percent of gross receipts, and the statute makes issuing it ministerial: SDCL 10-46A-16 provides that the secretary shall grant and issue a licence to each applicant, and the sole ground for refusal under 10-46A-17 is being delinquent on tax. There is no examination, experience, insurance or bond requirement anywhere in the chapter. What exists instead is municipal, and in the Sioux Falls area it is substantial. The City of Sioux Falls licenses a Residential Roofing and Repair Contractor class in its own right: a timed open-book written examination on the city’s handbook with an 80 percent pass mark, a $20,000 compliance bond, general liability cover of at least $300,000, and a three-year licence cycle. The city’s amended version of code section R105.1 provides that other than a homeowner, nobody is issued a residential building permit without that licence. South Dakota also regulates the money: SDCL 37-24-50 provides that no contractor supplying residential roofing goods and services may advertise or promise to pay or rebate all or part of any applicable insurance deductible, and that a contract entered into in breach is null and void.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Sioux Falls?
Where your roof sits decides what you can check. Inside the Sioux Falls city limits you can look up the licensed company and the named individual who passed the examination on the city’s published contractor list. Outside them, in unincorporated Minnehaha or Lincoln County, neither the county nor the state licenses roofers at all, and the state excise tax number a contractor quotes cannot be verified online because the Department of Revenue publishes no lookup for it. Note too that the statutory ban is on advertising or promising to pay your deductible, so a verbal offer to absorb it is exactly the conduct the law names.
What you can verify about a Sioux Falls roofer, and where you stop being able to?
The honest version of this page’s licensing story is geographic rather than statewide. Inside the Sioux Falls city limits a homeowner has a genuinely good tool: the city publishes a spreadsheet of every licensed contractor, giving the licence class, the licence number, the company name, the individual who sat and passed the examination, and the expiry date. You can look up a roofer in about a minute and see a named human being who has been tested. That is better than many states in this programme manage.
Is Sioux Falls a hard market to find a good roofer in?
South Dakota does not license roofers, general contractors, or construction contractors in any form. It licenses electricians and plumbers, each through its own state commission, so the absence is a choice rather than an oversight. The only state registration a roofer holds is a Department of Revenue excise tax licence, and the statute is explicit that issuing it is ministerial: the application asks for a trading name and an address, there is no fee, no examination and no bond, and there is no public register to check it against. What fills the gap is municipal, and it is good. The City of Sioux Falls requires a passed examination, a $20,000 compliance bond and $300,000 of liability cover, and it publishes every licence holder by name. So whether you can verify anything at all about your roofer depends on which side of the city line your house sits.
Roofer rankings for other metros
The Roofing Brief scores certified roofing contractors in the 400 largest U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan areas on the same formula.
- Best roofers in Omaha, NE, about 161 miles from Sioux Falls
- Best roofers in St. Cloud, MN, about 186 miles from Sioux Falls
- Best roofers in Waco, TX, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Crestview, FL, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Lincoln, NE, also scored, about 189 miles away
- Best roofers in Fargo, ND, also scored, about 230 miles away
See the full index of all 400 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 Sioux Falls, SD: 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.