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Storm Damage Roof Repair in Hammond, LA

Big Easy Roofing repairs storm damaged roofs across Hammond and Tangipahoa Parish. A storm inland can do two quite different things to a property, and only one of them is a roofing job. We scope what the wind did, document it, and are straight with you about anything that is not ours to fix.

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$500 to $20,000Estimated, minor to full replacement
A, AE, AO, AHFlood zones needing an elevation certificate
DocumentedDated photographs before anything moves
Written scopeBefore the work is priced

Hammond storm damage at a glance

Storm damage on an inland property splits into two things that get confused with each other. What the wind did to the roof, which is a roofing job, and water that arrived from somewhere other than the roof, which is not. Separating them early saves a great deal of wasted time.

What we scope

Wind and impact damage

Lifted or missing covering, broken seal strips, damaged flashings and ridge, and impact from debris. That is roofing work, it gets documented and scoped in writing, and the price follows the measurement rather than the weather report.

What is not a roofing question

Water that came from below

Water entering at ground level, or rising, is not something a roof repair addresses and we will say so rather than scoping around it. Being clear about that on day one is more use than a quote for the wrong problem.

The permit form records the flood zone

A, AE, AO and AH, against C and X

The City of Hammond permit application captures the flood zone and separates the zones that require an elevation certificate, A, AE, AO and AH, from those that do not, C and X. The zone is recorded against the property when the permit is issued.

A roof repair is not a flood improvement

Different question entirely

Repairing storm damage to a covering does not change a property's flood position and is not intended to. Questions about elevation, floodplain requirements or flood cover are for the City, your insurer or a qualified professional, not for a roofer.

The paperwork route is the ordinary one

City or Parish, by address

Storm damage does not create its own permit route. The City of Hammond Building Department covers addresses inside the city limits and the Parish Permit Office covers the unincorporated area.

What we will not do

Tell you what your policy covers

Louisiana law does not permit a roofing contractor to interpret policy coverage or duties, or to adjust a claim. We document observed conditions and provide a good faith itemised repair estimate, and coverage questions go to your insurer or agent.

Every figure on this page is an estimate, not a quote, and is subject to Big Easy Roofing sign off. Cost and timescale depend on size, pitch, access, weather, materials and whatever is found once work starts, so call Big Easy Roofing on (504) 800-8196 and we will come out and give you an estimate for your own roof.

Every figure here is an estimate, not a quote, and is subject to Big Easy Roofing sign off. What storm damage costs to put right depends on how much of the covering moved and what is underneath it, so call (504) 800-8196 for a written price.

What storm damage actually looks like on a roof

Storm damage is rarely as obvious as a hole. Most of it is a seal that has broken, a fastener that has pulled, or a detail that has moved slightly, and those are the ones that leak months later. The table sets out four categories and what each really involves.

What happenedEstimated repairHow it presentsWhat is easy to miss
Covering lifted or lost$500 to $2,500Visible gaps, shingles on the ground, exposed underlaymentThe seal strip is usually broken well beyond the shingles that actually moved
Impact from debris$700 to $3,500Punctures, cracked or split covering, damaged flashingsThe deck underneath can be damaged where the covering looks only bruised
Flashings and ridge moved$700 to $2,000Lifted ridge caps, displaced flashing at a wall or chimneyIt often does not leak until the next sustained rain from the right direction
Widespread covering failure$8,000 to $20,000Damage across several slopes rather than one areaThis is a replacement conversation, and repairing it slope by slope rarely pays

Estimates only, and none of it is a quote. The category matters less than the extent, and the extent is established by looking rather than by the size of the storm.

The paperwork after a storm is the paperwork before one

Storm damage does not open a separate permit route in Hammond. The same two offices apply, on the same published scales, and the same rule about starting work before the permit is signed. What a storm adds is the flood zone question, and the form already asks it.

The reroof requirement is unchanged

Statewide since 2025

Louisiana requires permitting and inspection of roof construction and reroofing for projects beginning on or after 1 August 2025, at La. R.S. 37:3737(I). A storm does not change that, and a repair large enough to be a reroof is treated as one.

Which office covers the address

City or Parish

Inside the city limits the Building Department at 219 E Robert St on (985) 277-5655. Outside them the Parish Permit Office on (985) 542-2117. The boundary decides it, not the postmark.

The flood zone gets recorded

On the application itself

The City permit application separates flood zones requiring an elevation certificate, A, AE, AO and AH, from those that do not, C and X. It is captured as part of the application rather than raised afterwards.

Starting before the permit issues costs more

City of Hammond

The City application states that failing to get the permit before work begins will result in a stop work order and a doubling of the appropriate permit's fees, and that the City may require removal of work begun and impose monetary fines.

Why we separate wind damage from everything else on day one

A storm that damages a roof often does other things to a property at the same time, and a roofing contractor is only competent to deal with one of them. Scoping the roof and saying plainly what falls outside it is more useful than a document that quietly covers everything.

It also keeps the record clean. Photographs and a scope that address the roof are worth more than a general assessment of storm damage from someone whose trade is roofing.

What we can give you, and what we cannot

We can document observed conditions with dated photographs and provide a good faith itemised repair estimate for the roofing work. That is factual and it is genuinely useful whatever happens next.

We do not interpret policy coverage or duties, and we do not adjust claims. Louisiana law does not permit a roofing contractor to do that, so those questions go to your insurer or agent, or to an appropriately licensed claims professional.

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What gets missed in the week after a storm

The damage that causes trouble later is rarely the damage anyone photographed on the day, because the failures that matter most are the ones that do not leak immediately. Three things are routinely under-assessed after a storm, and all three are cheap to establish properly while someone is already up on the roof looking.

Seal strips broken beyond the visible gap

Wind that lifts a few shingles breaks the adhesive seal on a band well beyond the ones that actually came off. Those shingles look fine and are no longer holding, so they move in the next comparable wind.

Checking the seal either side of the obvious damage is what decides whether this is a small repair or a slope, and it is the single most useful thing to establish early.

Deck damage under intact covering

Debris can bruise or split the deck while the covering above it looks only marked. It does not leak immediately, which is exactly why it gets left out of the scope.

Where impact is found, what is underneath is checked rather than assumed from the surface, because a repair laid over damaged decking is a repair that fails.

Flashings that moved slightly

A ridge cap or a wall flashing that shifted a fraction still looks like a roof. It will not leak in ordinary rain and will leak in sustained rain driven from the right direction, which can be months later.

That delay is why storm damage sometimes appears to be a new problem. It usually is not, which is another reason the condition gets recorded and dated at the time.

Big Easy Roofing Process

Four steps. The first separates what is a roofing problem from what is not, because scoping the wrong thing wastes more time than any other mistake after a storm.

A roofer examining wind lifted shingles and a displaced ridge cap after a storm
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01 Establish what is actually roof damage

Wind and impact damage to the covering, flashings and deck, separated from anything that is not a roofing question. Said plainly either way.

02

02 Document the condition and date it

General views before anything moves, then the damage in close up, then the areas that are undamaged, so the whole roof is recorded on one date.

03

03 Establish the office and the permit position

City of Hammond or Tangipahoa Parish, on the published scale, with the flood zone captured on the application as the form requires.

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04 Scope, price and repair

A written scope before work starts, and the permit and inspection paperwork handed over with the completed job.

Everything else we do in Hammond

The rest of the Big Easy Roofing services available in Hammond, each with its own page, crew and written scope. Where water is still coming in, the emergency page covers the first visit and how the permit sequence runs when a storm arrives outside the hours the permit counter keeps.

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Hammond Storm Damage Roof Repair FAQs

The questions worth asking after a storm in Hammond, answered before you have to pick up the phone.

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How do I know if the storm damaged my roof or something else

They are different problems and we separate them on the first visit. Wind and impact damage to the covering, flashings and deck is roofing work. Water that arrived from below or at ground level