Start With the Right Side of Jackson, Not a Guessing Game
Jackson's housing stock is a mix of postwar brick ranches, 1970s split-levels, and newer subdivisions in Rankin County. Roof age and wear vary block by block, and a storm that hit one part of Hinds County may have left another untouched. Roofbird reads the imagery for each block in the area you search and ranks it by housing era, visible roof wear, recent hail history, and how many homes you can actually work in an hour.
If you work Brandon or Flowood, or stick to the neighborhoods inside I-220, Roofbird shows you the blocks that clear the bar. When nothing in view is worth the trip, it says so plainly. That is the honest version of where should I knock today, and no shared lead marketplace can do it because they do not know your territory.
- Search a ZIP, a suburb, or a single street in Jackson or Rankin County
- See housing era, weathered-roof share, home count, and hail history per block
- Walkability score tells you if a block is dense enough to work efficiently
Every Roof Read From Above and From the Street
A satellite tile alone misses what a roofer sees from the curb: granule loss, algae streaking, curling shingles, patched sections. Roofbird combines the top-down view with a ground-level Street View of the façade, so the assessment catches side-visible wear a tile cannot. It also compares each roof against its immediate neighbors. If the houses on either side have been re-roofed and this one has not, that is flagged as social proof you can use at the door.
Each lead includes a 0-100 need score, a plain-English verdict, roof material, estimated roof age (read off the shingles, not the building permit), wear signs, both images, and an estimated job-value range. You know before you knock whether the roof is worth your time.
Two Scores: Needs a Roof vs. Will Decide Now
Roofbird separates NEED, how badly the roof needs replacing, from NOW, whether anything is forcing a decision on this specific house. Active damage, a recent hail hit on this roof, a home purchase in the last 18 months, or neighbors who have re-roofed all raise the NOW score. Neighborhood hail does not, because every home in the scan shares it and it cannot separate one door from the next.
For Jackson, where NOAA recorded a 100-mph hail event in Hinds County on May 18, 2026, Roofbird shows how long the homeowner likely has left to file an insurance claim, based on Mississippi's typical notice deadline. The countdown is an estimate, and the lead tells you to verify with the carrier, but it gives you a reason to call today rather than next month.
The Homeowner, Not Just the House
Every house you open (1 credit) includes the property owner's name, whether they live there or it is a rental, estimated market value, year built, last sale date, beds, baths, square footage, lot size, and mortgage lender. Roofbird also estimates the owner's equity, because equity is what decides whether a homeowner can say yes to a big-ticket job.
The same credit brings the phone number and email, and every number is DNC-scrubbed. Clear means it is safe to call manually, DNC means do not call, and verify means the status is unknown. No auto-dialing, no texts. A failed lookup is refunded; a nobody-listed answer is charged.
Work the List Like a CRM, Not a PDF
Roofbird's card view and table view let you filter on everything it knows: owner-occupied vs. absentee, active damage visible, insurance claim window open, minimum need score, minimum roof age, and contact state. Add your own tags, export the list, or print door-hanger PDFs for the route.
Low-quality roofs are dropped before they reach your list, so your credits go on roofs worth working, not on everything the scan looked at. And because a building is never re-assessed from scratch, re-scanning an area surfaces genuinely new homes instead of the same roofs again.