Lafayette Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Port Barre, LA — St. Landry Parish, population 1,751. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim support, our insured team serves Port Barre homes and businesses.
Port Barre property owners near the U.S. Route 190 crossing, Louisiana Highway 741 count on Lafayette Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Port Barre. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Lafayette to every job in Port Barre, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (877) 803-8589 for a free roofing estimate in Port Barre, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Port Barre, LA
The most recent storm entry for any town on this list belongs to Port Barre. On 14 February 2026 an EF1 tornado started southeast of town along Louisiana Highway 741, where it lifted the sheet metal roofing from a home, destroyed or heavily damaged several outbuildings and left tree damage along its track. Highway 741 is one of this town's two defining roads.
Sheet metal lifted from a house is the specific failure this town is exposed to. Thirty-four percent of Port Barre's 1,022 housing units are manufactured homes, the second highest share we serve, and eighty-five percent of households heat with electricity. Manufactured roofs and low-slope metal recovers dominate here in a way they do not in Opelousas twelve miles west.
The wind history backs that up. On 25 March 2009 a National Weather Service survey found microburst damage near Kings Truck Stop on Highway 190 west of town at 70 miles per hour, with a mobile home blown off its cinder blocks, while a resident measured a 62.8 mile-per-hour gust in Port Barre itself. On 31 October 2015 a tied-down mobile home was blown off its blocks.
On 22 December 2011 storms pulled part of the gutter off the old Fruit of the Loom plant and ripped a hole in its roof, through which nearly two feet of water drained into the building. That is a low-slope failure rather than a residential one, but it is a useful illustration of what a drainage path does when a membrane opens.
The housing is otherwise older than the manufactured share suggests: twenty-six percent from the 1960s, twenty-four percent from the 1970s, a median build year of 1976, and a median home value of $75,700, the second lowest here. Fifty-four percent single-family detached and sixty-two percent owner-occupied.
Port Barre is a registered public entity with the state code commission under credential J.01551 and issues permits in its own name, with St. Landry Parish Government at J.01408 covering ground outside the limits. One thing that matters more here than anywhere else on this list: the state's Fortify Homes roof grant excludes mobile homes and condominiums outright, so a third of this town's housing cannot use it.
The Port Barre point that would not be made in Grand Coteau: on a manufactured or metal-recovered roof, uplift resistance is entirely a fastening question. Screw pattern, screw length and washer condition decide whether the panel stays on, and no amount of sealant compensates for a short screw in a purlin. We specify the pattern in writing and we would rather you checked it.
Getting a free estimate in Port Barre
Call (877) 803-8589 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Port Barre, 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 New Iberia, LA and the rest of Acadiana. Everything starts at the Lafayette Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Port Barre, LA
Lafayette Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Port Barre that we do in Lafayette — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Insurance Claim Support — We document damage and build the file an adjuster can work from. We do not adjust or negotiate it, and will not tell you it will be approved, because in Louisiana that is licensed work and a roofer who promises an outcome is promising something outside his control.
- Roof Replacement — Most roofs around here get replaced for the wrong reason. The covering looks tired, a crew quotes shingles, and nothing under the shingles is ever examined.
- Roof Leak Repair — About half the ceiling stains we are called to in this city are not roof leaks. They are condensation.
- Storm Damage Roof Restoration — After a named storm the clock that matters is not the shingle clock. It is the drying clock.
- Hail Damage Roof Repair — Most of what gets called hail damage on a Lafayette roof is not hail. It is blistering, and telling you that costs us a job we could otherwise have sold.
- Wind Damage Roof Repair — 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 Port Barre, LA — and why local matters here
Port Barre sits in St. Landry Parish with a population of roughly 1,751, close enough to Lafayette that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the U.S. Route 190 crossing, Louisiana Highway 741.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Port Barre 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.
Popular services in Port Barre: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve New Iberia, LA and Acadiana.