Roofing Contractor Software in South Dakota

South Dakota licenses no roofers, and the state's only paper on a contractor is a tax. Every contractor holds a contractor's excise tax license from the Department of Revenue and pays 2 percent of gross receipts on every job, and that is the whole of the state's involvement. The licensing is the city's. Sioux Falls requires a residential building contractor license, with the excise tax license, a construction supervisor exam, a bond, and insurance behind it, and a separate license for roofing and repair, and Rapid City licenses contractors under its own code. Outside the cities there is no license at all.

The one state law written for the roofer is the storm law. No contractor selling residential roofing may advertise or promise to pay or rebate any part of an insurance deductible, and a contract that does is void. A homeowner who signs a written storm damage roofing contract can cancel it within 72 hours of being told the insurer has denied coverage in whole or in part, and the contractor refunds every payment within 10 days for work not done. A roof sold at the kitchen table carries three business days to cancel, with the money back within 10 business days.

The weather is hail first. The hailstone that fell on Vivian on July 23, 2010 measured eight inches across and weighed close to two pounds, the largest ever recorded in the United States, and the storm that dropped it also put a 74 knot gust and a tornado on the ground. On September 10, 2019, three EF-2 tornadoes touched down in Sioux Falls in five and a half minutes, the first in the city in 30 years, collapsed or compromised 37 structures, and put 25,000 customers in the dark. The derecho of May 12, 2022 ran 400 miles across the plains with 59 gusts of 75 miles an hour or more, killed two people in the state, and cost about a billion dollars. The blizzard of December 12 to 16, 2022 put 12 to 40 inches of snow across the state in a 50 mile an hour wind, close to four feet at Deadwood, and in March 2026 the Qury Fire burned more than 9,000 acres near Custer and damaged about ten properties, some of them homes.

There is no statewide residential building code. A city that adopts one has to build on the 2021 codes, and Sioux Falls and Rapid City both build to the 2021 International Residential Code and inspect. The frost line is 42 inches in both cities and 48 in places like Aberdeen. Sioux Falls gets about 25 inches of precipitation a year and 38 inches of snow, and Rapid City under 20. The median South Dakota house dates from 1979 and one in six from before 1940, so the work runs from the farmhouse reroof to the first roof on a Harrisburg tract. Sioux Falls passed 220,000 people in 2025, Harrisburg grew 52 percent between 2020 and 2025, Tea grew 41 percent, and Rapid City added 5,600 people and was the fastest-growing metro in the Midwest two years running.