Lafayette Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Opelousas, LA — St. Landry Parish, population 15,786. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Opelousas homes and businesses.
Opelousas property owners near Holy Ghost Catholic Church, the Interstate 49 corridor count on Lafayette Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Opelousas. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Lafayette to every job in Opelousas, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 803-8589 for a free roofing estimate in Opelousas, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Opelousas, LA
The most useful roofing record for Opelousas is a microburst rather than a hurricane. On 4 April 2011 a National Weather Service survey documented microburst wind damage along Abdalla Boulevard: two large trees uprooted with one falling on a house, and another home with a hole punctured through the roof. Estimated winds were 61 miles per hour, and no named storm was involved.
That is the pattern here. On 14 April 2018 a home weather station in Opelousas recorded a 68 mile-per-hour gust. On 24 January 2023 a mesonet station logged 63 miles per hour, and on 26 September 2023 the airport measured 61. This town takes its roof damage from ordinary spring and autumn convection, several times a decade, without ever making the national news.
The stock is old enough to feel it. Sixty-one percent of Opelousas's 7,493 housing units predate 1980, twenty-two percent went up during the 1970s and sixteen percent during the 1960s, for a median build year of 1975. Vacancy runs near sixteen percent and the median home value is $105,100.
Thirty-nine percent of households heat with utility gas. Combined with a 1970s deck, that gives us the two things we go looking for on an Opelousas leak call before we ever consider the field of the roof: the B-vent penetration, and the point where a low-slope porch or carport roof ties into the main slope.
Those tie-ins are the quiet failure in this town. A porch added in 1985 onto a 1968 house almost never got proper step flashing up the wall, and the previous roofer sealed the joint rather than counterflashing it. Sealant on a masonry or siding joint has a service life measured in seasons, and the water it eventually lets past runs inside the wall rather than showing on the ceiling.
Opelousas is a registered public entity with the state code commission under credential J.01064 and issues its own permits, with St. Landry Parish Government at J.01408 for unincorporated ground. Act 239 of the 2025 Regular Session, effective 1 August 2025, requires either body, as a permit-issuing authority, to permit and inspect one- and two-family reroofing under Chapters 8 and 9 of the residential code.
The Opelousas-specific advice concerns the Interstate 49 corridor. Out-of-state crews work this exit after every wind event, and Louisiana's rule is that home improvement work over $7,500 requires at least a state registration and residential work over $50,000 requires a licensed residential contractor carrying at least $100,000 in general liability. Verify the credential yourself with the state board before you sign, not after.
Our roofing scope in Opelousas
Lafayette Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Opelousas that we do in Lafayette — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Metal Roofing — Metal is an excellent roof for this climate and a bad one if it is installed the way most of Acadiana installs it. The panel is not the risk.
- Roof Leak Repair — About half the ceiling stains we are called to in this city are not roof leaks. They are condensation.
- Roof Skylight Installation — Most skylight complaints we get in this parish are described as leaks and turn out to be condensation. Water forms on the cold interior glass and frame of a unit surrounded by a humid attic, runs down the shaft, and stains the drywall in exactly the pattern a leak would.
- Storm Damage Restoration — After a named storm the clock that matters is not the shingle clock. It is the drying clock.
- Tile Roofing — Tile is uncommon on this side of the state and there is a reason we rarely recommend converting to it. Where it exists, usually on newer stucco-detailed houses, the thing to understand is that tile is not the waterproof layer.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind is a genuine peril in this parish and we will not soft-pedal it. Lafayette sits far enough inland that people assume the wind runs out before it arrives, and every few years a system proves otherwise.
See the full list of Lafayette services, or call (877) 803-8589.
About Opelousas, LA — and why local matters here
Opelousas sits in St. Landry Parish with a population of roughly 15,786, close enough to Lafayette that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Holy Ghost Catholic Church, the Interstate 49 corridor.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Opelousas properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of St. Landry Parish, 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.
Getting a free estimate in Opelousas
Call (877) 803-8589 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Opelousas, 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.
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Popular services in Opelousas: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
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