Where Should You Scan in Birmingham?
Birmingham isn't one market. It's a patchwork of older neighborhoods like Homewood and Mountain Brook, where many roofs are 20-plus years old, and newer developments in Trussville and Alabaster, where roofs may still have years of life. Roofbird's scan suggestion tool reads the area you work in and ranks each block by housing era, roof wear, hail history, and walkability, so you know which streets are worth your time before you draw a single polygon.
For example, if you work Jefferson County, Roofbird will show you which blocks have the highest concentration of weathered roofs and which have seen recent wind events, like the 61 mph wind recorded on June 8, 2025. It won't suggest a block just because it's close to you; it only suggests blocks that clear the bar for roof age and condition. If nothing in view is worth the trip, it says so plainly.
- Block-level ranking by roof age, wear, and walkability
- Hail and wind event history for your specific area
- Honest suggestions: no wasted mornings on low-potential blocks
Two Scores: Need vs. Now
A roof that needs replacing isn't necessarily a roof the homeowner will replace this month. That's why every Roofbird lead carries two separate scores. The NEED score reflects the roof's condition and age, read from imagery. The NOW score reflects whether something is forcing a decision on this specific house: visible active damage, a recent hail or wind event on that roof, a recent home purchase, or neighbors who have already re-roofed.
Neighborhood-wide hail doesn't inflate the NOW score, because it affects every home equally and can't separate one door from the next. Instead, Roofbird shows whether a hail event is on record for your area and estimates how long the homeowner has to file an insurance claim, based on typical state deadlines. You verify with the carrier, but you know the window.
- NEED score: roof condition and age only
- NOW score: triggers like active damage, recent sale, or neighbor re-roofs
- Claim window countdown based on state typical deadlines
Homeowner Contacts, DNC-Scrubbed
Opening a house completely costs 1 credit and brings the full property record: owner name, occupancy, estimated home value, year built, last sale, beds/baths, square footage, and more. Roofbird even estimates owner equity, because equity often determines whether a homeowner can say yes to a new roof. The same open brings the phone number and email, and every number is checked against the federal Do Not Call registry.
Each contact is labeled 'clear,' 'DNC,' or 'verify,' so you know before you dial whether it's safe to call. No texts, no auto-dialers, manual calls only. If no contact is found, you don't spend a credit.
- Owner name, occupancy, equity, and property details on every lead
- DNC-scrubbed phone numbers with clear, DNC, or verify labels
- No credits for lookups with no contact found
Work the List Like a CRM
Roofbird isn't a PDF dump. It's a working list. Filter leads by owner-occupied vs. absentee, live trigger, active damage, claim window open, minimum need score, roof age, equity, or contact state. Add your own tags, export the list, or print door-hanger PDFs for your route.
Low-quality roofs are dropped before they reach your list, so you're not paying for scans that don't produce workable leads. And because Roofbird never re-assesses a roof it's already read, re-scanning an area surfaces genuinely new homes, not the same roofs again.
- Filter on 15+ data points, including contact state
- Export or print door-hangers for the route
- No re-scans of the same roofs; new homes only
Pricing That Makes Sense for Birmingham Roofers
The free trial is 10 credits with no credit card, the credits never expire, and it ranks up to 1,000 houses. After that, Roofbird sells one-off credit packs from $49: Starter $49 for 49 credits, Crew $99 for 125, Hunter $199 for 300 and Pro $399 for 800. There is no subscription, nothing renews, and bought credits never expire. Every pack gets the whole product; bigger packs only cost less per credit. Opening a house completely costs 1 credit (roof read, street address, owner name, phones with Do-Not-Call flagged, email and property record). Reading roofs in bulk is 1 credit per 8 roofs and getting owners in bulk is 1 credit per 2 roofs. Drawing areas and ranking every roof in them is free, at any size, as many areas as you like. A typical list (read about 80 roofs, get owners for the best 30) uses about 20 to 25 credits.
Compare that to pay-per-lead marketplaces that sell the same lead to four competitors. Roofbird does not sell leads one by one: it ranks every roof and you choose which ones to act on, and you know exactly what each credit buys before you spend it.
- Free trial: 10 credits, no card, ranks up to 1,000 houses
- One-off credit packs from $49: Starter 49 credits, Crew $99 for 125
- Hunter $199 for 300 credits, Pro $399 for 800; nothing renews