Free checker · Rules checked October 22, 2026
Roofing licensing is five different systems wearing one name — a full state license in Illinois, a registration in Kansas, a $40,000 threshold in North Carolina, and nothing at all in Texas. Exam schools and filing services answer every version of that question with a checkout page. This checker answers it with your state, your job size and your scope — and prints the board or statute it read.
Texas and Georgia ask for nothing at state level — the real layer is city registration. The checker names it instead of selling you a license you don't need.
Kansas (Attorney General) and Washington (L&I) register roofers — paperwork and a bond, no trade exam.
Illinois, California, Florida, Arizona, Minnesota and others license roofers with an exam, a qualifying party and real insurance minimums.
North Carolina licenses at $40,000. California and Arizona exempt small jobs under $1,000. Job size changes the answer — so the checker asks.
Every verdict carries its check date (October 22, 2026) and its primary source, and ends with the same instruction: confirm with the board before you file. Boards — not this page — decide applications.
The guides already ranking for "roofing license [state]" are published by software companies selling subscriptions, insurers selling policies and schools selling classes. Their answer to "do I need a license?" can never be no. Ours can — because the only thing sold here is a $49 paperwork kit, and only after the verdict says you need paperwork.
A $38,000 North Carolina re-roof and a $42,000 one are different legal events. A $900 California repair and a $1,100 one are too. Guides print the rule; the checker does the comparison for your number.
Minnesota licenses primes and merely registers small subs. North Carolina measures your own contract, not the project. The checker asks who signs — guides don't.
Oklahoma added a mandatory exam endorsement on July 1, 2026. Static guides still call it "registration, no exam." Our law-changed tracker is dated, and so is every verdict.
About 38% of roofing jobs touch an insurance claim. In Texas, paying or even advertising that you'll absorb a homeowner's deductible is a criminal offense — a Class B misdemeanor (Business & Commerce Code §27.02; Insurance Code ch. 707). In Florida it's a $10,000 fine per occurrence (§489.147). Storm-market ads still promise "free roofs" every hail season. The compliance checker answers "can I say that in my state?" from the same dated dataset.
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The checker gives you the verdict. The kit gives you the paperwork, in filing order: the application walkthrough for your state's class, qualifying-party documentation templates, the bond and insurance spec sheet with your state's exact minimums, the city-registration checklist pack for no-license states, and the contract-compliance pack (deductible language and required contract notices, including Florida's deadlines calendar).
$49 one-time payment
Included in the $49 RoofingLicenseCheck Kit — every item below, for every state, one payment.
