Forest City Roofers is a roofing company covering greater Portland and southern Maine — Cumberland, York and Sagadahoc counties, from Kittery and the York County beaches to Portland, Casco Bay, Brunswick and Bath, and inland to the Sebago Lake towns.
We do roofing. Not roofing plus siding plus kitchens. One trade, one set of crews, one warranty to stand behind.
Not every roofer who knocks on your door after a storm will still be around when a problem shows, and Maine does not license roofers, so a business card proves nothing. Maine law does give you tools. A home repair job over $3,000 needs a written contract with a start date, a completion date, the full price and no more than one-third down. If you sign at home after a visit or a call you did not ask for, you have three business days to cancel, and work that gets fixed to the house cannot start until they have passed. The Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division, at 1-800-436-2131, can tell you whether a contractor has been the subject of consumer complaints.
If your roof does not need replacing, we will say so. If a claim is not worth filing, we will say that too. If we are not the cheapest bid you get, we will tell you exactly what is in ours that is not in theirs.
Every service has its own page, written from the same sources as the rest of the site:
Maine's Insurance Code (24-A M.R.S. § 1411) says no one may act as, or claim to be, an insurance adjuster without a Maine adjuster license, and no one may charge for advice about what a policy covers unless they are a licensed adjuster, a lawyer or another licensed professional. An adjuster who works for the homeowner may not offer a contract until 36 hours after the loss, and the homeowner can cancel it within two business days (§ 1476). A roofer is none of these. So the line here is simple. We inspect, photograph the damage slope by slope and give you a written, line-item scope you can send your insurer. The claim, the policy and the deductible stay yours. Maine has no law written for roofers and deductibles, but its insurance fraud law covers false information about a claim or a payment (24-A M.R.S. § 2186), and the state's Bureau of Insurance warns homeowners to watch for contractors who offer to do repairs with upgraded or free building materials. It also notes that a windstorm deductible is often larger than your other deductibles, either a flat amount or a percentage of the dwelling limit, and it is printed on your policy's declarations page.
Each of the 64 town pages is built from that jurisdiction's own published pages and ordinances, researched 2026-10-24. 23 of them publish an answer on whether a re-roof needs a permit, 51 publish the code edition they enforce, and 56 name a building official. Where a town publishes nothing, its page says “Not published” rather than guess, because a guess on a permit page costs the homeowner, not the website.
The housing figures on every town and county page come from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey, 2020–2024; the hail reports from NOAA's Storm Prediction Center; the design figures from the code research in our roofing code guide. Every page lists its own sources at the bottom, so anything on it can be checked.
We get on the roof, photograph every slope and penetration, and send you the whole set — yours to keep, hire us or not.
One line-itemed proposal with the materials named by brand and product. One number, and it is the number.
One dedicated crew start to finish. Landscaping tarped, site tidied daily, magnet run over the yard before we pull out.
Warranty registered with the manufacturer, finished photos sent, and a phone number that still gets answered in year six.
64 towns and cities across 3 counties. Each one has its own page with whether it enforces Maine's building code, who issues the roofing permit and its own number, because in Maine the code is the same statewide but each town's code office sets its own permit rules. See every town we cover.
Free inspection, a written scope, and photos you keep either way.