Jackson Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Florence, MS — Rankin County, population 4,572. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Florence homes and businesses.
Florence property owners near U.S. Highway 49 at Florence, Hemphill Park count on Jackson Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Florence. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Jackson to every job in Florence, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 447-6479 for a free roofing estimate in Florence, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Florence, MS
Start with the storm everybody in Florence has heard of, because the record does not say what people think it says. The F3 tornado of 6 April 2005 developed just southeast of Florence between US Highway 49 and State Highway 469, and the survey puts its most significant damage two miles southeast and east of Monterey, several miles away. Eleven million dollars, and almost none of it here.
That is the shape of Florence's whole record. Big regional events get filed under this name because the town sits at the highway junction where reports are taken, and the damage they describe is frequently somewhere else. Ask which road the survey walked before you accept a date.
What did happen in town is smaller and better documented. On 22 July 2000 the roof was blown off a mobile home in Florence and a tree damaged a residence. On 25 June 2019 an oak fell onto a home on West Main Street. On 16 June 2017 a house took roof damage and a storage building lost its doors.
The housing is newer than the rest of Rankin County's small towns. Median year built is 1999, 34 percent of the 1,860 units went up in the 2000s and 5.1 percent since 2020. Median owner-occupied value is 230,800 dollars, and 139 units, 7.5 percent, are manufactured homes.
On a roof that went on around 2003 with a thirty-year laminate, the honest answer to most storm calls is a repair and a note in the file, not a replacement. We will scribe reference points at the eave corners on the first visit so a second look next season measures against something real.
Outside the town limits, Rankin County runs the paperwork: contractors on anything over 10,000 dollars need a state board license, a 5,000 dollar performance bond and 300,000 dollars of liability cover, and every contractor signs the permit application in person at Brandon. A renovation permit there also requires a written cost estimate covering labor and materials.
Florence's other lesson is about water. On 12 August 2001, 45 homes and businesses here were damaged when eight to ten inches of rain fell in three to four hours, and flooding recurred in September 2011 and April 2020 around Willow Lake and Old Pearson Road. None of that is a roof claim, and we will say so in writing.
Getting a free estimate in Florence
Call (888) 447-6479 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Florence, usually within a couple of days. You get a written, itemized free estimate with materials and scope spelled out — no verbal ballpark, no pressure, and no charge whether you hire us or not.
We also serve Morton, MS and the rest of central Mississippi. Everything starts at the Jackson Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Florence, MS
Jackson Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Florence that we do in Jackson — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Storm Damage Restoration — After a line of storms rolls through, the most useful thing a roofer can do for a house here is separate what the weather did from what was already there. Two conditions, two mechanisms, two dates.
- Tile Roofing — Tile is uncommon in central Mississippi and there are reasons for that. It is heavy, the supply of matching pieces here is thin, and the framing on a typical local house was never sized to carry it.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind does not choose a slope at random. It finds the joint that has already opened and starts there, which is why the same eight feet of ridge leaves a house three storms running.
- Residential Roof Installation — Jackson is not the coast and the code reflects that. State law compels five counties on the Gulf to enforce wind and flood mitigation provisions.
- Commercial Roof Installation — On a commercial building in this belt, the roof is the best structural instrument the owner has. A membrane records what the slab is doing in a way that a wall full of finishes never will, and it records it with dates attached.
- Roof Replacement — Replacing a roof here is worth doing once. It is worth doing twice only if you enjoy paying twice, and that is what happens when new shingles go back onto a house that is still moving underneath them.
See the full list of Jackson services, or call (888) 447-6479.
About Florence, MS — and why local matters here
Florence sits in Rankin County with a population of roughly 4,572, close enough to Jackson that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include U.S. Highway 49 at Florence, Hemphill Park.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Florence properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Rankin County, and a roofing contractor who works the area weekly already knows what fails locally and what holds up. That is the difference between a bid and an accurate bid.
Popular services in Florence: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Morton, MS and central Mississippi.