Short answer: As of October 2026, the one highest-scoring roofing contractors in the Yakima, WA metro on The Roofing Brief Contractor Score are A Quality Roof Now (67.6). Every one holds a manufacturer certification that can be verified independently, every rating below has been corroborated against at least one source outside the certification registry, and no company paid to appear here.
The Roofing Brief scored 1 certified roofing contractors serving the Yakima metro on a published, reproducible formula, then researched each of the top one individually to confirm its record. Yakima County recorded no hail and no tornado in ten years and a single thunderstorm wind report, a 61 knot gust at Union Gap on 30 May 2020. This is not a storm market. It is a dry heat and frost market on the rain shadow side of the Cascades, where roofs age under about 290 dry days a year, 40 days above 90 degrees and 147 frost nights, and where one home in ten is a manufactured home that needs a state permit to reroof. Only one manufacturer-certified firm in the pool publishes coverage of Yakima itself, and we say so rather than rank firms based 60 miles away in another county.
Why a Yakima roof fails slowly rather than suddenly
Washington registers contractors rather than licensing them, and sets no roofing examination. Every construction contractor must register with the Department of Labor and Industries under RCW 18.27.020, carry a continuous surety bond of $30,000 as a general contractor or $15,000 as a specialty contractor under RCW 18.27.040, with those amounts in force since 1 July 2024, and hold liability insurance at the RCW 18.27.050 minimums. A cancelled bond or lapsed policy suspends the registration automatically until it is replaced, which matters here because the register shows several Yakima-area firms with exactly those suspensions.
The local permit rules are straightforward and cheap. In the City of Yakima a residential tear-off and reroof is a portal permit that can be applied for, paid and issued online without plan review, priced on valuation under the master fee schedule effective 1 June 2026: $90.35 up to $4,000, then $90.35 plus $12.86 per thousand to $25,000. In unincorporated Yakima County a residential reroof where the sheathing is removed and replaced is a flat $89.25. The city designs to a 110 mph wind speed and a 19 pound per square foot ground snow load, classes weathering as severe, and requires an ice barrier underlayment, so ice dam protection is a code item here rather than an upsell.
Chapter 19.186 RCW, Washington’s roofing and siding statute, requires a written contract itemising the work, the grade or brand of materials and the price, and gives a homeowner who is financing the job three business days to rescind before any work starts. What Washington does not have is any rule on insurance deductibles: nothing in chapter 19.186 mentions insurance, and the anti-rebating statute RCW 48.30.140 binds insurers and producers rather than contractors. Any job of $1,000 or more on a home of four units or fewer also requires the contractor to hand you a statutory Notice to Customer with its registration number and bond amount before starting.
The housing stock is older than the state average and unusually mixed. Yakima County’s median year built is 1978 and the city’s is 1972, about sixteen years older than Bellingham’s, so many roofs here predate modern ventilation practice. Washington leaves the International Residential Code ventilation section unamended, since WAC 51-51-0806 is marked Reserved, which makes the one in 150 ratio the standard to ask about. Renters occupy 40.2 percent of homes countywide and 49.8 percent in the city. And 10.0 percent of the county’s housing units are manufactured or mobile homes, nearly double the 5.3 percent share statewide.
The one certified roofer ranked in Yakima, WA
Scored 2026-10-04. The metro mean rating used as the Bayesian prior for Yakima is 4.9, across a pool of 1 certified contractors.
| Rank | Company | TRB Score | Certification | Rating (reviews) | Adjusted | In business since | Based in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Quality Roof Now | 67.6 | Master Elite | 5.0 (6) | 4.911 | not published | Grandview, WA |
1. A Quality Roof Now — TRB Score 67.6
A Quality Roof Now is based in Grandview, WA, led by Rachael Georgene Binfet, member on the L and I record and BBB owner; Troy Anthony Binfet named on the company site and the workers’ compensation account, BBB accredited, A+ rating, and holds Master Elite standing on the GAF certification registry.
Certifications held: Master Elite (GAF), Washington contractor registration TABENEL866PA, verified active. 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 | 36.4 | 40 |
| Review corpus depth | 6.9 | 15 |
| Metro proximity | 0.3 | 10 |
| Total | 67.6 | 100 |
Independently corroborated:
- TAB Enterprises LLC, trading as A Quality Roof Now, general registration TABENEL866PA, active since 1 October 2014; $30,000 Lexon bond; $1,000,000 liability insurance. Three Factory Assembled Structures infractions in 2021 and 2022 for reroofing manufactured homes without the required alteration permit, $200, $400 and $800, all satisfied; contractor strikes recorded on 23 November 2017 under RCW 18.27.200 and 28 February 2018 under RCW 51.48.020(1); a registration lapse in 2018 for an outstanding infraction. No bond suits.. Washington L and I contractor register
- Accredited with an A+ rating at Grandview.. BBB business profile
What they actually do. Residential and commercial roofing, metal roofing, siding, windows, and other trades listed on its registration.
Why it ranks here. The only certified firm in our pool that publishes coverage of Yakima itself, including a Yakima street address, and it is inside Yakima County, at Grandview about 35 miles down the valley. It is BBB accredited at A+, carries the current $30,000 bond and $1 million of liability cover, and has no suits against its bond.
Best fit for: A certified option that actually serves Yakima, provided you check the points below.
What we would want clarified. Its compliance record is the reason to read this entry closely, and it bears directly on the spotlight above. L and I fined it three times in 2021 and 2022 for reroofing manufactured homes without the state alteration permit, with the penalties doubling from $200 to $400 to $800 as the statute provides for repeats; all were paid. The register also records two contractor strikes, in November 2017 under the registration statute and in February 2018 under the industrial insurance statute that concerns misreporting, and a 2018 lapse for an outstanding infraction. Its safety record shows repeat serious fall-protection citations in 2023, 2024 and 2025. If your home is manufactured, ask to see the L and I permit before work begins. Founding is unclear, with BBB giving 2002 and the current entity dating from 2014. Its 6 reviews are very thin and unverified, as is its certification tier. 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 (509) 439-1783, 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 Yakima roofers our ranking cannot see
Only one manufacturer-certified firm in our pool publishes coverage of Yakima. These four Yakima-area roofers sit outside that programme, and each was checked on the Washington L and I register with no bond suits. They are not scored and we are not recommending them. We also checked and left out a Yakima roofer with an unpaid L and I infraction, one with two open bond suits, and two commercial-only firms.
| Company | Verified credential |
|---|---|
| Central Guaranteed Roofing LLC | An Owens Corning Preferred Contractor at 1009 S 5th Ave, 1.1 miles from Yakima’s centre, with general registration CENTRGR801QF since 2020 and a predecessor registration from 2010; no bond suits or infractions. |
| Columbia Plateau Inc | On BBB’s accredited Yakima roofing list, with registration COLUMPI906MN since 2010 and a predecessor, Columbia Plateau Roofing, from 2007; no bond suits or infractions. |
| A W Roofing of Yakima LLC | A roofing specialty registration, AWROORY931MW, held since 2007, with lineage to All Weather Roofing, also a roofing specialty registrant, from 1995; no bond suits. |
| Johnny’s Quality Exteriors Inc | BBB accredited with listings at Granger and Sunnyside, and general registration JOHNNQE926PH since 2008; no bond suits or infractions. |
1 severe weather reports in a decade, and why that matters in Yakima
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 1 county of the Yakima, WA statistical area over ten years, with the dates, the stone sizes and the towns they landed on. Over that decade the metro logged 0 hail reports, 1 severe thunderstorm and high wind report and 0 tornadoes. The database’s property-damage fields are left blank for most of these reports, so it carries no usable loss total for this metro and we do not quote one.
Wind. The strongest thunderstorm gust logged in the metro was 61 knots, about 70 mph, near Union Gap on 30 May 2020. Asphalt shingles begin lifting at roughly 67 mph when they are correctly nailed, and considerably below that when they are not.
When it happens. Severe weather reports cluster in May (1). The worst years on record were 2020 (1). If you are scheduling non-urgent work in Yakima, 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. Hail is not the governing risk in Yakima. Weight your decision toward wind rating, ventilation and flashing detail rather than paying extra for impact-rated shingles.
Heat, frost and a state permit most people do not know they need
The climate numbers explain what wears out a Yakima roof. NOAA’s 1991 to 2020 normals for Yakima Air Terminal give 8.01 inches of precipitation a year on only 71.8 days with measurable rain; 40.2 days a year reach 90 degrees and 5.7 reach 100. The July normal runs from a low of 55.0 to a high of 89.9, a daily swing of about 35 degrees, against roughly 18 degrees at Bellingham. And the same roofs see 147.4 nights a year at or below freezing, 20.3 inches of snow, and a January normal low of 24 degrees. A shingle here expands and contracts through a wide range every summer day and then spends five months of nights below freezing. We looked for a primary source that quantifies how much roof life that costs and found none, so we give no figure; the city’s own design criteria simply class weathering as severe.
The weather that does damage arrives as wind and winter rather than hail. The Yakima Valley forecast zone recorded 7 High Wind events in 2016 to 2025; on 15 November 2021 the airport measured a 59 mph gust, and on 25 October 2019 a spotter reported a five foot diameter tree falling on a home and damaging the roof. The defining storm of the decade was a blizzard: on 9 February 2019 the NWS narrative records near zero visibility and sustained winds of 35 mph across the valley, with 1,800 head of cattle valued at about $2.5 million lost. The same zone logged 12 wildfire records between 2016 and 2024, against zero hail reports in the county over the full decade.
The rule that catches people out is about manufactured homes. One in ten homes in Yakima County is a manufactured or mobile home, and Washington treats reroofing one as a state-regulated alteration rather than an ordinary repair. Labor and Industries states it plainly: an alteration permit from the department is required when you reroof a manufactured home. That is a state permit, separate from any city or county permit, and the obligation falls on the contractor.
The penalty is real and it is being applied locally. RCW 43.22.435(1) allows L and I to assess a civil penalty of up to $1,000 against a contractor that fails to obtain a permit before altering a manufactured home, with each day a separate violation up to $5,000 and repeat violations within two years doubled. The public record shows three such infractions in 2021 and 2022 against the one ranked firm on this page, for new composition roofs on manufactured homes, at $200, $400 and $800, all paid; three against another Yakima roofer in 2023, one of them still unpaid; and others besides. This is a known, recurring compliance gap in this specific market.
So the questions to ask here are different from the ones on a storm page. If your home is manufactured, ask the contractor to show you the L and I alteration permit before work starts, and do not accept a city permit as a substitute. On any home, ask what underlayment and ventilation they propose for a roof that will see 100 degree afternoons and sub-freezing nights in the same year, and confirm the ice barrier the city requires is included. And check the register for suspensions: in a market where bonds and policies lapse often enough to show up on several local firms’ records, a registration that was current when you got the quote may not be current on the day work starts.
What governs a Yakima roof, from primary records
| Measure | Figure | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hail and tornado reports, county records, 2016 to 2025 | Zero | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Thunderstorm wind reports | One: 61 knot gust, Union Gap, 30 May 2020 | NOAA NCEI Storm Events |
| Annual precipitation and wet days | 8.01 inches on 71.8 days | NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals, Yakima Air Terminal |
| Days at 90 degrees or above, and 100 or above | 40.2 and 5.7 | NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals |
| Nights at or below freezing | 147.4 a year | NOAA 1991 to 2020 normals |
| Defining storm | Blizzard, 9 February 2019: 1,800 cattle lost | NWS Pendleton narrative |
| Manufactured or mobile homes | 10.0 percent of county housing units, against 5.3 percent statewide | ACS 2024 one-year, B25024 |
| State permit to reroof a manufactured home | Required from L and I | Washington L and I |
| Penalty for skipping it | Up to $1,000 per violation, each day separate up to $5,000, doubled on repeat | RCW 43.22.435(1) |
| City reroof permit | Online, valuation-based from $90.35 | City of Yakima fee schedule, 1 June 2026 |
| Ice barrier underlayment | Required | City of Yakima design criteria |
| Median year built | County 1978, city 1972 | ACS 2024 one-year, B25035 |
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database and 1991 to 2020 Climate Normals; NWS Pendleton narratives; Washington Department of Labor and Industries; RCW 18.27, 19.186, 43.22.435 and 48.30.140; WAC 51-51-0806; City of Yakima and Yakima County fee schedules and design criteria; US Census Bureau ACS.
The checks worth making in Yakima
Licensing is required in WA. Washington requires every contractor to register with the Department of Labor and Industries, and registration requires both a surety bond and general liability insurance. Speciality contractors including roofers must carry a $15,000 bond.
Insurance minimums under RCW 18.27.050 are $200,000 public liability plus $50,000 property damage, or $250,000 combined single limit. The bond is continuous, and if it lapses the registration suspends automatically until cover is restored.
Check here: Washington L&I Verify a Contractor. L&I’s verification tool shows existing claims against a contractor’s bond, which is the single most useful and most overlooked check in Washington.
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.
The Yakima market behind this ranking
1 certified roofing contractors serve the principal cities of the Yakima, WA statistical area, of which 0 hold the top President’s Club tier. The pool carries 6 customer reviews between them at a mean rating of 4.9. The statistical area had a 2024 population of 258,523, a change of 0.7% against the 2020 census base, per the U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2024 estimates.
How these Yakima rankings were produced
Every contractor in the Yakima, WA 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 1 certified contractor, of whom 0 hold President’s Club standing and 1 Master Elite, against a metro mean rating of 4.9. The top one were then researched individually against Better Business Bureau records, state licence registers and manufacturer directories. Where that research turned up something awkward it is on the page, and no placement was paid for.
Set aside in Yakima. Contractors that would otherwise have scored into the top one were removed for the reason stated. The score is computed from public data, but where the research pass finds evidence undermining an input to that score, the score is set aside.
- Pantoja’s Construction LLC, which scored 65.6: Excluded on service area. Its state register address is in Grandview, inside Yakima County, but the firm presents itself as a Tri-Cities company with an office in Pasco, its own site names no Yakima Valley community, and its two recorded L and I jobsite inspections are in Richland and Moses Lake. We will not rank it for a market it does not say it serves. Separately, its registration shows three lapses, including an insurance lapse of almost two months in 2021 and a bond lapse from 27 September to 3 December 2024 during which the registration was suspended by statute, and a member previously co-owned 7 Stars Roofing LLC, which lost its registration in June 2020 for lapsed insurance. There are no bond suits or infractions on either record.
- J&V Builders LLC, which scored 59.0: Excluded on service area. Desert Aire is in Grant County, not Yakima County, and the firm’s own site defines its market as Grant and Adams counties, naming Moses Lake, Mattawa, Quincy and Ephrata; Yakima is not mentioned. Its registration was suspended by statute from 20 March to 19 May 2026 after its liability insurance was cancelled, and lapsed for seven weeks in 2025 for late renewal. It is also a framer and general builder rather than a roofing-only firm.
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: 2026-10-04. Corrections go to the editor and are actioned on verification.
The questions that come up most in Yakima
Who is the best roofer in Yakima, WA?
How many certified roofing contractors serve Yakima?
1 contractors on the GAF certification registry serve the principal cities of the Yakima, WA statistical area as of October 2026, of which 0 hold President’s Club status.
How much damaging hail does Yakima get?
The Yakima, WA statistical area recorded 0 hail reports of 1 inch or larger and 0 of 2 inches or larger between 2016 and 2025 in the NOAA Storm Events Database. The largest hailstone reported measured 0 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 one.
When is the worst time of year for roof damage in Yakima?
Severe-weather reports in the Yakima, WA statistical area cluster in May, on the NOAA record for 2016 to 2025. Outside those months local crews are not triaging storm damage, so lead times are shorter and scheduling is easier.
Do roofers need a licence in WA?
Washington requires every contractor to register with the Department of Labor and Industries, and registration requires both a surety bond and general liability insurance. Speciality contractors including roofers must carry a $15,000 bond. Insurance minimums under RCW 18.27.050 are $200,000 public liability plus $50,000 property damage, or $250,000 combined single limit. The bond is continuous, and if it lapses the registration suspends automatically until cover is restored.
What should I check before hiring a roofer in Yakima?
L&I’s verification tool shows existing claims against a contractor’s bond, which is the single most useful and most overlooked check in Washington.
Heat, frost and a state permit most people do not know they need?
The climate numbers explain what wears out a Yakima roof. NOAA’s 1991 to 2020 normals for Yakima Air Terminal give 8.01 inches of precipitation a year on only 71.8 days with measurable rain; 40.2 days a year reach 90 degrees and 5.7 reach 100. The July normal runs from a low of 55.0 to a high of 89.9, a daily swing of about 35 degrees, against roughly 18 degrees at Bellingham. And the same roofs see 147.4 nights a year at or below freezing, 20.3 inches of snow, and a January normal low of 24 degrees. A shingle here expands and contracts through a wide range every summer day and then spends five months of nights below freezing. We looked for a primary source that quantifies how much roof life that costs and found none, so we give no figure; the city’s own design criteria simply class weathering as severe.
Is Yakima a hard market to find a good roofer in?
Yakima County recorded no hail and no tornado in ten years and a single thunderstorm wind report, a 61 knot gust at Union Gap on 30 May 2020. This is not a storm market. It is a dry heat and frost market on the rain shadow side of the Cascades, where roofs age under about 290 dry days a year, 40 days above 90 degrees and 147 frost nights, and where one home in ten is a manufactured home that needs a state permit to reroof. Only one manufacturer-certified firm in the pool publishes coverage of Yakima itself, and we say so rather than rank firms based 60 miles away in another county.
Why is Pantoja’s Construction LLC not on this list?
Excluded on service area. Its state register address is in Grandview, inside Yakima County, but the firm presents itself as a Tri-Cities company with an office in Pasco, its own site names no Yakima Valley community, and its two recorded L and I jobsite inspections are in Richland and Moses Lake. We will not rank it for a market it does not say it serves. Separately, its registration shows three lapses, including an insurance lapse of almost two months in 2021 and a bond lapse from 27 September to 3 December 2024 during which the registration was suspended by statute, and a member previously co-owned 7 Stars Roofing LLC, which lost its registration in June 2020 for lapsed insurance. There are no bond suits or infractions on either record..
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 Kennewick, WA, about 71 miles from Yakima
- Best roofers in Seattle, WA, about 111 miles from Yakima
- Best roofers in Olympia, WA, another WA metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Bremerton, WA, another WA metro on the same formula
- Best roofers in Santa Cruz, CA, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Daphne, AL, a metro of comparable size
- Best roofers in Portland, OR, also scored, about 124 miles away
- Best roofers in Spokane, WA, also scored, about 164 miles away
- Best roofers in Anchorage, AK, also scored, about 1522 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 Yakima, WA: 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.