Roofing Company in Annapolis, MD

Annapolis sits low on the water where the Severn meets the Chesapeake, on flat coastal-plain ground barely above sea level. Wind comes off the Bay with little to break it, and heavy year-round rain and rising tides make water the constant a roof here has to manage.

Downtown holds centuries-old homes that have been re-roofed many times over, while the neighborhoods around them run newer. Either way the work is keeping water moving off the roof and away from the walls, and we inspect for the lifted shingles and worn flashing a Bay-side site finds first.

Annapolis is the capital of Maryland and the county seat of Anne Arundel County, and we plan a job in the old city around the State House differently from one out in the neighborhoods. The city sits on the Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, about 25 miles south of Baltimore, and it served as the temporary national capital in 1783 and 1784. It was in the Maryland State House that George Washington resigned his commission as commander of the Continental Army.

The old city is one of the first planned cities in colonial America, and that plan is still what we work around downtown. Many elements of Francis Nicholson's original 1695 town plan survive along with about 120 of its 18th-century buildings, and the Colonial Annapolis Historic District was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1965 and expanded in 1984. On houses that old we treat the roof and the flashing into the original masonry as one job, done to the original construction rather than a modern spec.

A job near the landmarks of the old city gets staged around streets with nowhere to put a dumpster, so we settle that before we quote a date. Main Street runs from Church Circle and St. Anne's Church down to Annapolis City Dock at its foot.

The old city also holds the Hammond-Harwood House of 1774 on Maryland Avenue and the Paca House and Garden, built by a signer of the Declaration of Independence. St. John's College was founded here in 1696, and the United States Naval Academy, established in 1845, sits beside the old city.

Flat, low ground is why wind and water are what we plan around on an Annapolis roof. The city is part of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and relatively flat, with its highest point only 50 feet above sea level. The climate is humid subtropical, and rain is generous all year at roughly 2.38 to 5.14 inches a month.

Temperature is the easy part of an Annapolis roof. Summer highs reach about 86 degrees and winter lows sit around 29.8 degrees, moderated by the low elevation and Bay proximity.

Flooding is the defining local hazard here, and the storms that bring it are the same ones that lift shingles and open flashing. Hurricane Isabel caused flood damage in 2003, and NASA reported 18 days of high-tide flooding from May 2019 to April 2020 against a 1995 to 2005 average of two days a year. The year 2024 brought a record 120 flooding events, and ground was broken on the City Dock Project on November 3, 2025.

Roof or siding work in Annapolis? Call (667) 200-6656 or book a free inspection.