Perkins Roofing, family-founded in 1980, is a roofing company serving all of Broward County from its Miami office. The whole county is inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, and it is two roofing markets: coastal condominiums and older homes in Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood, and tile and shingle suburbs from Pembroke Pines to Coral Springs.
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Permit jurisdictions in Broward CountyInteractive satellite map of Broward County, with verified Census county and incorporated-municipality boundaries overlaid.Loads an interactive satellite map when selected.Expect the municipality to issue the permit 31
Expect Broward County to issue the permit 6 named areas
Unincorporated Broward — the hatched area on the map, and every Census Designated Place inside it. A CDP is a named community with no government and no building department, so the county permits and inspects there.
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One county, two markets
Broward is unusual on our list because the coastal and inland halves barely resemble each other. Along the A1A corridor — Fort Lauderdale beach, Pompano, Hollywood, Hallandale — the dominant roof is a low-slope membrane over a mid- or high-rise condominium building, and the client is usually a board rather than a homeowner. Salt exposure is at its worst here and it is what kills fasteners, edge metal and terminations.
Drive twenty minutes west and the county turns into Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Davie, Plantation, Sunrise, Coral Springs: mile after mile of single-family and townhome construction, mostly concrete tile and architectural shingle, mostly built within the last few decades. The exposure is gentler, the access is far easier, and the failure modes are completely different — lifted shingle tabs and aged tile underlayment rather than membrane seams and ponding.
Both halves are inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone, which the code defines as Miami-Dade and Broward counties with no geographic sub-limit. The zone follows the county line, not the shoreline, so a Weston roof is held to the same tier of the code as a beachfront one.
What genuinely does change between the two halves is the design exposure. The Atlantic barrier-island strip generally falls into ASCE 7 Exposure Category D rather than Exposure C, which materially increases the uplift pressures a roof has to be designed for. That is a site-by-site determination made by the design professional, not something anyone should assign to your address off a map — but it is the reason a coastal Broward roof and an inland one are not the same engineering problem even under identical code.
A Broward peculiarity
Broward is the only county on our list with a countywide building-code authority of its own. The Board of Rules and Appeals, created by Special Act in 1971 and written into the Broward County Charter, is the only body that may amend the Florida Building Code for Broward. Individual municipalities cannot write their own technical amendments the way towns elsewhere in Florida do.
BORA also certifies every building department in the county. A department may not operate unless BORA has certified its Building Official and its chief inspectors as competent and qualified, and those certifications are renewed biennially. The board itself is thirteen members plus nine alternates, appointed by the County Commission and the League of Cities.
For a roofing contractor that means answering to two things at once: the municipal building department that issues and inspects your permit, and the countywide amendments BORA has adopted. It is a layer most Florida contractors never encounter, and it is worth asking anyone quoting your Broward roof whether they know it exists.
What we get called for
Coastal condo
Where a low-slope roof stops is where it leaks. Edge metal, parapet flashing and the collars around penetrations take the full salt load on coastal Broward buildings and they age faster than the field of the roof does.
Drainage
Equipment added to a roof over the years rarely comes with a drainage review. Water standing a day or two after rain around A/C curbs is a design problem that turns into a membrane problem.
Inland tile
The western suburbs are full of concrete tile roofs where the tile is fine and the waterproofing beneath it is not. The tile is not the roof — the underlayment is, and it is the part with the shorter life.
Shingle
Architectural shingle is the most economical inland system and the most wind-sensitive. Nailing pattern, starter course and tab sealing decide whether it stays on, and blown-off tabs are the most common storm call we take west of the turnpike.
Transitions
Almost every older Broward house has one somewhere — over a Florida room, a carport, a rear porch. Water sits rather than runs, and the transition where the flat meets the pitch is a classic leak point.
Associations
Roofs on association buildings tend to be inspected when something is already wrong. Everything about a low-slope roof gets cheaper the earlier it is looked at, and that is a budgeting argument as much as a technical one.
Who issues the permit
Hover or tap a municipality to see which department to expect a roofing permit from. Broward County’s own Building Code Division has unusually narrow jurisdiction, so nearly every residential roofing permit here comes from a city.
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Permit jurisdictions in Broward CountyInteractive satellite map of Broward County, with verified Census county and incorporated-municipality boundaries overlaid.Loads an interactive satellite map when selected.Expect the municipality to issue the permit 31
Expect Broward County to issue the permit 6 named areas
Unincorporated Broward — the hatched area on the map, and every Census Designated Place inside it. A CDP is a named community with no government and no building department, so the county permits and inspects there.
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Where we work
Dispatched from the Miami office — the shortest run of any county outside Miami-Dade.
The county's core: beachfront condominium stock, the older single-family neighborhoods behind it, and a downtown commercial base.
Dense coastal mid- and high-rise, plus a large stock of mid-century single-family with flat and low-slope sections.
Large-scale suburban development, predominantly tile and shingle, with easy site access and straightforward staging.
Northern coastal Broward, where condominium roofs and commercial low-slope work sit side by side.
Central-west Broward: single-family, townhome and light commercial, generally younger stock than the coast.
The far western suburbs. Inland exposure, newer construction, and the same code regime as the beach.
Services here
Condominium and commercial low-slope systems along the coastal corridor and the county's commercial spine.
Tile, shingle and metal re-roofing across the inland suburbs and the older coastal neighborhoods.
Leak tracing, storm damage and the honest call on repair versus replacement.
Membrane systems, drainage correction and terminations — the dominant coastal Broward scope.
Standing-seam systems, and the corrosion questions a salt-loaded county forces on them.
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Questions
Yes, and countywide. The zone is written into the Florida Building Code as Miami-Dade and Broward counties with no geographic sub-limit, so it applies just as much in Weston or Coral Springs as it does on the beach — it is drawn on county lines, not on distance from the water. Products must be approved for HVHZ use, typically evidenced by a Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, and attachment requirements are stricter: HVHZ asphalt shingle fastening requires no fewer than six approved roofing nails per shingle. Your municipal building department is the authority for your address.
No. There are two offices, Miami and Jupiter, and Broward is worked from the Miami office. It is the shortest run of any county outside Miami-Dade, which is why we would rather tell you that than open a mailbox in Fort Lauderdale so a map pin looks better.
Age and type more than exposure. The western cities — Pembroke Pines, Miramar, Weston, Coral Springs — are dominated by single-family and townhome construction from the last few decades, which means a lot of concrete tile and architectural shingle rather than the low-slope membrane that defines the coast. Direct salt exposure is milder inland, but the wind and code requirements do not relax.
Yes. Coastal Broward carries a heavy stock of mid-rise and high-rise condominium buildings, and the roof over them is usually a low-slope membrane system with mechanical equipment, drains and terminations that decide its service life. Those projects are run as coordinated work over occupied units — see commercial roofing.
Because of the Board of Rules and Appeals, an arrangement that does not exist in most of Florida. Created by Special Act in 1971 and enshrined in the Broward County Charter, BORA is the only body that may amend the Florida Building Code for Broward County — individual municipalities cannot write their own technical amendments. It also certifies every building department in the county: a department may not operate unless BORA has certified its Building Official and chief inspectors, and departments are re-certified every two years. The practical effect on a roofing job is a dual layer: your municipal building department issues and inspects the permit, and countywide BORA-adopted amendments sit above it.
Not automatically. The HVHZ version of the rule limits repair to 25 percent of a roof area in any twelve-month period unless the entire system is brought to current code — but it carries an exception drawn from Florida Statute 553.844(5): where the existing roof was built, repaired or replaced under the 2007 Florida Building Code or a later edition, only the worked-on portion must meet current requirements. That exception expressly cannot be amended away by a local government, HVHZ included. For roofs predating the 2007 code, the original rule still governs, so the answer turns on the age of the existing system.
Florida Office of Insurance Regulation data as of March 2026 puts Broward’s average annual homeowners premium at $6,136 including wind and $3,008 excluding it — higher overall than Miami-Dade despite both counties sitting in the same code regime. Broward is also one of the three counties FLOIR groups as Tri-County, which together carry a 27.27 percent litigated-claim rate against 8.16 percent across the rest of the state. A roofing contractor sets none of that. What a contractor does control is whether the work is documented well enough to survive a claim.
By having someone competent get on it. One leak on a young roof is a detail failure worth fixing. The same leak on a roof near the end of its life is usually the first of several, and money spent patching is money not spent on the replacement you will buy anyway. Broward has a lot of roofs sitting right on that line, and the answer comes from the deck and the flashing, not the age on a permit record.
South of here is Miami-Dade, the other HVHZ county. North, outside the zone, is Palm Beach County. All six are on the service areas hub, and finished work is in the project portfolio. Hiring for a commercial building? Read how to choose a commercial roofer in Fort Lauderdale.
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Broward work is quoted and run out of the Miami office.
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