Hampton Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Smithfield, VA — Isle of Wight, population 8,533. From residential roof installation and commercial roof installation to wind damage roofing, our insured team serves Smithfield homes and businesses.
Smithfield property owners near the Pagan River, Windsor Castle Park count on Hampton Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Smithfield. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Hampton to every job in Smithfield, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (888) 532-0527 for a free roofing estimate in Smithfield, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Smithfield, VA
Four separate tornadoes are on record in the storm database under Smithfield, which is more than any other town in this service area. An F1 in July 1996; an EF0 on April 19, 2019 that ran 2.9 miles from Mill Swamp Road into the James and put a tree on a house; an EF0 on July 8, 2021 during Tropical Storm Elsa; and an EF0 on June 16, 2023 that tracked 8.46 miles through Windsor Castle Park.
Read that carefully before anybody sells you on it. All four were EF0 or F1, and the recorded damage in every case is trees, limbs and a small number of houses. The frequency is real. The severity is not what a storm-chasing bidder implies when they say the word tornado.
The old town core is the other thing that can separate this address from the rest of Isle of Wight County. Virginia exempts roof-covering replacement on a house from any permit, then writes in an exception allowing the building official to require one for replacement roofing in a locally designated historic district. Find out whether your address falls inside the district before signing anything.
Smithfield is an incorporated town, but the Isle of Wight County building official administers the code. There is no separate town building department to call, and the county is where a permit, if one is required, actually issues. Smithfield's median owner-estimated value is $374,900.
The stock is comfortable and fairly new. Median year built is 1992, owner occupancy is 82.3 percent of 3,584 occupied units, and 53.3 percent heat with utility gas, which is the highest gas share of any town on this list outside the big cities. Of those units, 33.5 percent date from 2000 or later and only 14.8 percent predate 1960.
Gas heat means a flue, and a flue means counterflashing. On a masonry chimney the flashing has to be cut into the mortar joint and the counterflashing bent over the step flashing beneath it. Sealant smeared over the joint is what we find more often than anything else, and it is why so many chimneys leak again two winters later.
Here is the Smithfield-specific version of our advice: with this much recorded tornado activity and this little recorded severity, the money belongs in fastening and edge metal rather than in an impact rating. Six nails, starter strip at rakes, and hand-sealing in cool weather beat a Class 4 label on a house that has never seen destructive hail.
Getting a free estimate in Smithfield
Call (888) 532-0527 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Smithfield, 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 Carrollton, VA and the rest of Hampton Roads. Everything starts at the Hampton Roof Pros homepage.
What we take on in Smithfield
Hampton Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Smithfield that we do in Hampton — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Storm Damage Restoration — Storm work on the Peninsula splits into two seasons with two different failure modes, and treating them the same is how homeowners end up with a repair that does not hold. Late-summer tropical systems bring the uplift.
- Tile Roofing — We service tile in Hampton and we will not sell you a new tile roof here. Both of those statements are deliberate, and the reasoning is worth reading before you take a quote from anyone who tells you otherwise.
- Wind Damage Roofing — Wind is the peril that will actually visit this address, and we are not going to talk you out of taking it seriously. The Peninsula sits low and open, with long water fetch on three sides and very little terrain to slow a gust down.
- Residential Roof Installation — Virginia changed codes recently and new work is where that shows. The 2021 statewide building code took effect in January 2024, and from January 2025 every new permit application runs under it.
- Commercial Roof Installation — Commercial work here means low-slope decks on buildings that cannot close. Warehouses off the Interstate 64 corridor, retail along Mercury Boulevard, offices near the Hampton Roads Center, churches, restaurants and apartment blocks, all with tenants who need the doors open while we work.
- Roof Replacement — A replacement here is judged by one test: what the assembly does when a tropical system drives rain sideways for six hours. Fastening, edge metal and deck condition decide that.
See the full list of Hampton services, or call (888) 532-0527.
About Smithfield, VA — and why local matters here
Smithfield sits in Isle of Wight with a population of roughly 8,533, close enough to Hampton that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include the Pagan River, Windsor Castle Park.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Smithfield properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Isle of Wight, 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 Smithfield: Residential Roof Installation and Commercial Roof Installation.
We also serve Carrollton, VA and Hampton Roads.