Two hundred and twenty two rated roofing contractors in this metro. Number one is our editorial pick, made against five criteria printed on this page. Everything under it is sorted on the one number none of them controls: how many people have publicly said something.
The inspection is by Keys Roofing, the company at number one: photographs, measurements and a written scope you keep, whoever you end up hiring. In a hurry? Go straight to the full ledger.
Google Maps, three county pulls, 23 August 2026. The largest single count in the file is 1,834.
Number one is our editorial pick. It is the only entry assessed against the five criteria set out under How we rate, and the figure beside it is a count of those criteria rather than a rating of anything. Every company under it is listed with a short label drawn from its own row, and none of them has been scored against those criteria.
The star averages and review counts printed beside those companies are Google’s figures, from a Google Maps pull dated 23 August 2026, and they belong to the businesses they describe. We publish no star rating and no review count for Keys Roofing, because Keys publishes neither.
That split is the argument this ledger exists to make. Review count measures how long a sign has been on a truck and how many doors have been knocked, which is scale, not quality. So the ledger sorts on volume and says so, and number one is what the criteria say rather than what the volume says. Two different questions, kept apart on purpose, on the same page.
Number one is ours. Positions two to thirteen are the ledger, and the bar under each of those names is that company’s review count drawn to scale against the largest count in the file. The shape of the bar is the most useful thing on this page, because it shows you that the order below is a distribution of exposure rather than a league table of quality.
Same-day installs. 24 hour response. Locally owned.
Keys does same-day installs. On the right roof the tear-off and the new covering happen inside one day, rather than the house standing open under a tarp overnight while a crew comes back on Thursday. It is not a promise stapled to every job, it is what a local crew running its own schedule is able to do. Keys states a 24 hour response time, and the number you call is answered in St. Louis.
Roofing, gutters and downspouts across greater St. Louis, and nothing else. No siding, no windows, no commercial work. Shingle work is Atlas and Malarkey. Licensed and insured.
Keys is at number one because of what the five criteria below ask, not because of what this ledger sorts on. The ledger sorts on review count, and review count would put a company here that has simply been advertising longer. The criteria ask something narrower and more useful: what does this company do, what does it refuse to do, who is accountable for the work, and what is it willing to name in public before you sign anything.
Five of five is a count of the criteria on the scorecard above and nothing else. It is not a Google star rating, it is not a review score, and it is not a percentage. No star average and no review count is printed beside Keys Roofing anywhere on this site, because Keys publishes neither.
A numbered position on this page is that company’s place in our editorial list. The count and the star average printed beside it are Google’s figures for that business, pulled on 23 August 2026, not ours and not a score we gave it. Bar length is review count as a share of the largest count in the ledger. Number one carries no bar, because we publish no review count for it.
Three different Keys Roofing jobsites in greater St. Louis. Every photograph on this site is from a real jobsite; none of it is manufacturer marketing stock.
None of the three returned a rated listing in the pulls behind this page, so there is no count and no star average to print for them, and inventing one would be worse than leaving them out. Here is what each publishes about itself instead, with the page it came from named.
Two more of the big names did return rated listings, so they are in the ledger above at their real Google figures: Bone Dry Roofing at six and Schneider Roofing and Remodeling at nine. Their rows carry their own published sentences beside the count, because that belongs next to the number.
Read the five together and the pattern is theirs, not ours. Between them they publish a footprint of more than eighty five locations, a home office in Fort Worth, a headquarters in Indianapolis, growth through merger and acquisition, franchise owned locations, a family of companies spanning eight states, service menus reaching masonry, solar, windows and painting, and a monthly payment figure on the financing page. Every one of those is a sentence off their own website.
None of that is a criticism, and this page will not pretend to know how any of those companies runs a job. It is a different shape of business, that is all. What that shape does not hand a homeowner is proximity: a crew working to a schedule set in another state is not the same proposition as an owner led crew from across town, and on a same-day turnaround that difference is the entire thing. Keys Roofing is the other shape on purpose. One trade, one metro, one owner accountable for the job, and the whole water path from the ridge to the far side of the foundation. That is why the pick sits where it sits, and why it is a pick rather than whoever collected the most reviews.
That is not a statement about workmanship. It is a statement about door volume, marketing spend and how long the sign has been on the truck. A company that has knocked ten thousand doors across three counties will out-collect a four crew shop that has never advertised, every time, in every market, forever.
Which is why this ledger publishes the tally bars, and why there is an editorial pick sitting above them instead of whichever company happened to out-collect everybody. Once you can see that ten companies hold about a third of every review in the file and the median company has thirty one, the order below number one stops looking like a verdict and starts looking like what it is: a map of who is loudest.
The useful reading of that part of the page is sideways, not top down. Find four or five companies whose counts are large enough that the average means something, then read the actual reviews, in date order, starting with the most recent three star and four star ones. That is where the pattern lives. Five star reviews tell you a job went fine. Three star reviews tell you what a company does when it does not.
A list can tell you who exists. It cannot tell you what to ask, what to read, what to sign, or what Missouri actually requires. These ten pages do that part, and every one of them is written to be useful whether or not you ever call the company at number one.
Our pick at number one, then the forty most reviewed roofing contractors in the metro, each with a tally bar drawn to scale so you can see how steep the drop is.
Read this page →02The honest limits of the number this whole ledger is sorted on, including why a five star average across nine reviews tells you almost nothing.
Read this page →03A week-long routine for turning a long list into three companies actually standing in your driveway with a tape measure.
Read this page →04What to check before the appointment, what to check during it, and the two checks almost nobody does that separate companies fastest.
Read this page →05The questions, what a good answer sounds like, and what the evasive version of each one sounds like when you hear it.
Read this page →06Line by line: the document that separates a real contract from a one page number on a clipboard.
Read this page →07Eleven signals that the person at your door came in with the weather, and what Missouri law already forbids them from offering.
Read this page →08No state roofing licence, no matching statute, a ten year limitation period, and a deductible tax credit that stops accepting applications in October.
Read this page →09When St. Louis County wants a permit for a reroof, when it does not, and why two municipalities run their own licensing on top.
Read this page →10Two hundred and twenty two rated roofing contractors in one metro is not an accident. The hail record explains most of it.
Read this page →Keys Roofing does roofing, gutters and downspouts. Not siding, not windows, not commercial, not general contracting. That is a narrower list than most companies in the ranking advertise, and it is narrow on purpose.
Those four lines are what the five criteria are actually asking about. Keys carries no star average and no review count anywhere on this site, because the money site publishes neither, and inventing one to sit beside somebody else’s real Google number would make the whole ledger worthless.
It means a lot of people have said something. Age and volume produce reviews, so a long-established or heavily advertised company will out-collect a better small one. Read the count as a measure of how much evidence exists, then go and read the evidence.
Three reasons cover almost all of it. The pull was three counties, not the whole state. A business Google does not categorise as a roofing contractor was filtered out, and plenty of roofers list themselves as general contractors. And a listing with no star average was dropped because there was nothing to print beside the name. Absence from this ledger is not absence from the market.
Yes. Counts and star averages are refreshed on the next pull, so a number that has moved will move here too. A misspelled name, a wrong town or a company that has closed gets fixed on request. Call (314) 220-2333 and say what is wrong and what it should say.
No. None of them are contacted, none of them are billed, none of them are given the option, and none of them receive anything submitted through the form on this site. Number one is a sponsored placement, which is what the strip under the masthead and the disclosure at the foot of every page are there to tell you, and it is the one entry chosen against the five criteria under How we rate.
If you would rather skip the shortlist process and just have somebody come and look at it, that is what this form is for.
A roof inspection here means photographs, measurements and a written scope you keep, whether or not you hire anybody. If there is a claim in your story, the documentation is yours and the claim stays in your name: under RSMo 407.725 a Missouri roofing contractor may not represent or negotiate a homeowner's insurance claim, and Keys does not.
Straight through to the Keys Roofing office. Roofing, gutters and downspouts across greater St. Louis, and nothing else.
This goes to Keys Roofing, the company at number one. None of the other companies named on this site receive anything you type here.