Missoula Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Florence, MT — Ravalli County, population 821. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Florence homes and businesses.
Florence property owners near the Bitterroot River crossing at Florence, the Florence-Carlton school campus count on Missoula Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Florence. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Missoula to every job in Florence, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 291-2398 for a free roofing estimate in Florence, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Florence, MT
Florence is the ice town on this site, and the records are specific about it. On 18 January 2005 an ice storm caused power outages in the Florence area from accumulating ice, with schools closed for the day. On 19 January 2012 freezing rain three miles east of Florence formed a crust on the snow and on the ground. Two separate ice storm entries for one small community.
There is a third. On 21 December 2005 the Department of Transportation declared emergency travel only from Florence to Stevensville on Highway 93 because of freezing rain, and northern Bitterroot schools delayed opening. On 12 January 2011 freezing rain and black ice closed driving on Highway 93 from Lolo to Conner and along the eastside highway from Florence to Hamilton.
Ice storms are a roofing problem in a way snow is not. A glaze layer adds load without adding depth, seals the ventilation path at the ridge, and turns any gutter screen into a lid. We generally advise against gutter guards on Florence eaves for exactly that reason, and we make nothing by saying so.
Wind takes the covering rather than the structure here. On 8 April 2010 the amateur radio club reported shingles blown off a roof in Florence, trees down on Highway 93 near Stevensville and utility poles down in Lolo, all in one event. On 17 October 2017 considerable power outages ran from Florence to Victor with fallen trees through the valley.
There is no local building permit for your re-roof. Florence is unincorporated, Ravalli County runs no building department, and the county is absent from Montana's register of certified local programs. The nearest certified programs are Hamilton, Stevensville and Darby, and each of those stops at its own city limits. None of them has any authority over a Florence roof.
That absence puts the burden of proof on your contractor. Ask for the ice barrier product by name, ask how far past the heated wall line it runs, and ask to see the photographs from the dry-in. On a house with the Bitterroot River crossing at one end and the Florence-Carlton campus at the other, nobody else is going to check.
The stock is late-century. The 2020 to 2024 survey puts the median build year at 1984 with a margin of plus or minus fourteen years, so read it as mid-1970s to late-1990s rather than as a single year. About 162 of roughly 402 units date from the 1970s, which is the decade whose ventilation details we most often have to correct.
Getting a free estimate in Florence
Call (888) 291-2398 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 Victor, MT and the rest of the Missoula valley and the Bitterroot. Everything starts at the Missoula Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Florence, MT
Missoula Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Florence that we do in Missoula — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Roof Coatings & Sealing — There are two rules for coating a roof in this valley and both of them are about the calendar. Nothing goes on after the first week of September, and if the product is water-based acrylic, we would rather not put it on here at all.
- Roof Ventilation — Skip the turbine. Skip the wind-driven vent cap too.
- Skylights — Build the curb taller than you think you need. That is the whole Missoula skylight conversation, and getting it wrong is why so many units in this town leak at year four despite being flashed correctly on the day they went in.
- Fascia & Soffit — The soffit is the only part of your ventilation that works in a Missoula January, and on most houses here it is also the part that ends up sitting under a foot of snow. Fixing an eave in this valley means solving both of those problems in the same afternoon.
- Chimney Flashing — We build a cricket behind chimneys narrower than the code requires one on, and we do it because a chimney in this valley acts as a dam for two months rather than for a single afternoon. Twenty-four inches of width is our trigger.
- Commercial Roofing — Commercial roofs in Missoula are managed on a different calendar than commercial roofs anywhere warmer, and the reason is access rather than temperature. From about the first of December your roof is effectively out of service, so whatever needed doing had to have been done back in the fall.
See the full list of Missoula services, or call (888) 291-2398.
About Florence, MT — and why local matters here
Florence sits in Ravalli County with a population of roughly 821, close enough to Missoula that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Bitterroot River crossing at Florence, the Florence-Carlton school campus.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Florence properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Ravalli 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: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Victor, MT and the Missoula valley and the Bitterroot.