Gulfport Roof Pros provides professional roofing services in Poplarville, MS — Pearl River County, population 2,833. From roof replacement and roof leak repair to insurance claim help, our insured team serves Poplarville homes and businesses.
Poplarville property owners near Pearl River Community College, the Mississippi Highway 26 corridor count on Gulfport Roof Pros for roofing contractor in Poplarville. We bring the same roofing work we are known for in Gulfport to every job in Poplarville, backed by our workmanship guarantee and a free estimate.
Call (844) 484-8656 for a free roofing estimate in Poplarville, or request a quote below. We respond fast and there is no obligation.
Roofing in Poplarville, MS
The highest wind gust ever measured in Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina was not recorded on the beach. It was recorded here. The National Weather Service episode narrative lists 117 knots, 134 miles per hour, at the Pearl River County emergency operations office in Poplarville, higher than anything that survived on the coast.
That single line ought to change how people forty miles inland think about wind. The coastal instruments were destroyed by surge before the peak, so the record is incomplete, but what it does show is that the strongest surviving measurement in the state came from a county with no shoreline at all.
Pearl River County is in the six-county windpool territory for exactly that reason, and homeowners here carry the same percentage named-storm deductible structure as a house on the beach highway. The deductible is calculated against the dwelling limit and is printed on your declarations page as a dollar figure. Find it before you need it.
The county's Building Division operates under the adopted 2018 family of International Codes and runs its permit office from South Main Street in Poplarville. Inside the city limits the city issues, so confirm which counter your address answers to rather than assuming the county form is the correct one.
Poplarville has the oldest and least-changed housing on the inland side of this list. The median year built is 1979, 35.7 percent of the 898 units predate 1970, and zero percent of the housing stock was built during the entire 2010s. Nothing new has been added here in a very long time.
Seventeen percent of that stock is manufactured housing, and 58.7 percent of occupied units are owner occupied. On a manufactured home the roof fastens to a factory frame rather than a code-framed deck, the state construction code does not reach it, and pricing it as a conventional reroof is how people end up with a job that does not hold.
The dated record here is trees onto houses, over and over. On 12 June 2023 the local emergency manager reported three separate homes struck by falling timber on the same afternoon, on South Pine, on West McClendon and on Hyde Street. On 9 November 2000 wind took a large portion of a house roof and damaged two mobile homes.
About Poplarville, MS — and why local matters here
Poplarville sits in Pearl River County with a population of roughly 2,833, close enough to Gulfport that crews move between the two constantly. Local landmarks and corridors residents know well include Pearl River Community College, the Mississippi Highway 26 corridor.
Local knowledge is not a marketing line here. Poplarville properties share soil, weather, permit rules and construction eras with the rest of Pearl River County, 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 Poplarville
Call (844) 484-8656 or send the form and we schedule a site visit in Poplarville, 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 Lyman, MS and the rest of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Everything starts at the Gulfport Roof Pros homepage.
Roofing work we do in Poplarville, MS
Gulfport Roof Pros covers the same range of work in Poplarville that we do in Gulfport — nothing is carved out because the address is a few miles up the road:
- Skylights — We install and repair skylights and we will still try to talk you out of adding one. A skylight is a permanently self-funded penetration in a market where penetrations are the repairs nobody's policy pays for, and that is a straightforward reason to think twice.
- Fascia & Soffit — Soffit is the most common wind casualty on a Gulfport house and almost never a claim. A panel section that lets go, plus the run of fascia that goes with it, will not approach a percentage deductible.
- Chimney Flashing — Chimney flashing produces slow interior damage, and slow interior damage is the category that no deductible structure on this coast ever pays for. A chimney leak that stains a ceiling over four winters is wear by the time anyone looks at it, which means it was always your bill.
- Commercial Roofing — Commercial wind coverage on the Mississippi coast is very often written by a non-admitted carrier, and that single fact should be read before the roof specification is written. The state's rules on named-storm and hurricane deductibles do not reach non-admitted insurers at all.
- Insurance Claim Help — We are roofers, not public adjusters, and our most useful contribution to a claim is arithmetic you could run yourself in five minutes. Multiply your dwelling limit by your wind deductible percentage.
- Roof Replacement — A replacement in Harrison County is a cash purchase with extra steps. On most homes here the wind peril sits in a separate policy carrying a percentage deductible, so the covering is an asset you fund on your own schedule rather than one a carrier eventually buys for you.
See the full list of Gulfport services, or call (844) 484-8656.
Popular services in Poplarville: Roof Replacement and Roof Leak Repair.
We also serve Lyman, MS and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.