Primary data only. Permit files pulled . TDI file pulled .
Of the Austin re-roof permits in the extract this site keeps, most carry no usable declared value, and none records what the roof is made of.
A handful of permits that did fill in a value cannot be called metal or shingle, so the roof replacement cost page prints their percentiles as a record of those permits only.
What Do The Public Files Hold?
City of Austin
- Dataset
- Socrata 3syk-w9eu (City of Austin Issued Construction Permits)
- Pulled
- (UTC)
- Rows
- 2,311 raw records, 1,631 unique re-roof permits kept, dated October 13, 2023 to October 9, 2026
- Value field
total_job_valuation: 32 of 1,631 permits carry a usable declared value
The extract this site keeps from this file holds the permit number, date, declared value and area. None of those columns in the City of Austin extract records roofing material.
For the 3 Austin counties, the Texas Department of Insurance publishes homeowners paid losses by county and loss type, and it does not break them out by roofing material, so TDI cannot price Austin metal roofs either. The Austin roof replacement cost page prints the permit figures that can be computed for its one permit file and the TDI series for 3 counties, each with its source URL, pull date and row count; the metal roof question has no price in either.
What Do Austin Re-Roof Permits Show?
City of Austin
On the Austin metal roof question, the City of Austin file holds 1,631 unique re-roof permits issued from October 13, 2023 to October 9, 2026. For the metal roof comparison it lists 465 in 2025 against 698 in 2024, a change of -33.4% between the two full years in the file (465 minus 698 is -233). For this Austin metal roof page, note the file ends in 2026, so that year is a partial count of 404.
| 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile | Permits used | Permits kept |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $14,175 | $23,150 | $60,000 | 32 | 1,631 |
For the Austin metal roof question, City of Austin declared values run from $14,175 at the 25th percentile to $60,000 at the 75th, a spread of $45,825 ($60,000 minus $14,175) with $23,150 in the middle, taken from 32 permits with a usable total_job_valuation pulled October 13, 2026. For the metal roof question that is 32 of 1,631 permits (2.0%), too few to read as the going rate in Austin; the other 1,599 leave the field blank, zero or under $100. A declared value in City of Austin is the applicant's figure on the permit. The City of Austin file does not say whether the roof was metal or shingle, so the range cannot be split by that.
What Did Austin Insurers Pay Per Policy Around Metal Roof Jobs?
For this Austin metal roof page, the TDI file lists Travis, Williamson and Hays, 3 counties in all. For 2025 in Austin, the table shows paid losses labeled Wind, the file's Loss per policy for Wind and for Total Paid Loss, and Wind as a share of total paid. For the metal roof question in Austin, these are insurer payments on homeowners claims, read from https://tdi.texas.gov/general/documents/home-owners-losses-by-county-25.csv pulled October 13, 2026. They do not price a metal roof anywhere in Austin.
| County | Wind paid | Wind per policy | Total per policy | Wind share of total paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travis | $245,245,694 | $897 | $1,481 | 60.6% |
| Williamson | $172,778,612 | $1,135 | $1,568 | 72.4% |
| Hays | $47,249,954 | $707 | $1,099 | 64.3% |
In 2025, Williamson County has the highest Wind loss per policy among the 3 Austin counties the file lists for 2025, at $1,135, and Hays County the lowest, at $707. Added across the Austin counties on the metal roof page, Wind paid was $465,274,260 on 492,409 policies in 2025, which is $945 per policy, against $1,307 in 2024. For this Austin metal roof page, across 2019 to 2025 in the Austin counties, the highest year was 2021 at $1,696 per policy and the lowest year was 2019 at $262.
Worked Example: A Metal Roof Quote Against Travis County Numbers
Travis County has the most policies in force of the Austin counties, 273,370 in 2025. TDI lists $245,245,694 of Wind paid losses there. $245,245,694 divided by 273,370 is $897 per policy, which is the $897 the file prints in its Loss per policy column. That $897 averages every policy in Travis County, and most homeowners there filed no wind claim in 2025, so it says nothing about what one metal panel system costs.
A second check uses the permit file. In City of Austin, the median declared value is $23,150 and the 75th percentile is $60,000, so the upper quarter of permits declares at least $36,850 more than the median ($60,000 minus $23,150), on 32 permits. A metal roof bid that sits far outside $14,175 to $60,000 is not wrong on that fact alone, but the roofer should be able to say what in the job explains it.
What Moves A Metal Roof Quote?
The Austin files above cannot rank these metal roof cost drivers, so they are listed as questions for each Austin bidder. The Austin metal roof lines come from this site's guide to reading a roofing estimate and its metal roof versus shingles in hail guide, each of which lists its own sources.
- The panel system on a Austin job: standing seam and exposed-fastener panels are separate products, and the quote should name which one.
- The gauge, profile and finish warranty written on the Austin quote, not described in a phone call.
- The impact rating the panel is listed for, which the hail guide explains and which matters in Austin because Wind paid $945 per policy across its counties in 2025.
- Whether the old Austin roof comes off, how many layers, and whether disposal sits inside that line or is billed apart.
- Underlayment, flashing, drip edge and ventilation on the Austin roof, each as its own line.
- Decking repair priced per sheet, and who pulls the Austin permit and shows the fee.
Sources for this Austin metal roof page: City of Austin Issued Construction Permits, Socrata 3syk-w9eu, pulled , Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, pulled October 13, 2026. Pull dates are UTC. For this Austin metal roof page, figures are final as published by each source; the 2026 permit counts are partial.
The Largest Hail Stones Reported In Travis, Williamson And Hays Counties
A metal roof is often chosen for how it handles hail, so this block prints the largest stones the hail file holds for the three counties this site reads around Austin. NOAA's Storm Events Database lists 581 hail reports in those counties from 2010 to June 2, 2026. 76 of them, 13.1%, describe a stone 2 inches across or larger.
Each row below is one report, ordered by the size of the stone. A storm day files a report at every place an observer measured hail, so rows that share a date belong to one storm, and a row is neither a damaged roof nor an insurance claim.
| Date | County | Location | Stone (inches) |
|---|---|---|---|
| September 24, 2023 | Williamson | Round Rock | 4 |
| May 30, 2024 | Williamson | Coupland | 4 |
| September 24, 2023 | Williamson | Round Rock | 3.75 |
| September 24, 2023 | Williamson | Round Rock | 3.5 |
| September 24, 2023 | Williamson | Round Rock | 3.5 |
| September 24, 2023 | Williamson | Old Round Rock | 3 |
| September 24, 2023 | Williamson | Round Rock | 3 |
| September 24, 2023 | Travis | Pflugerville | 3 |
The largest stone in the record measured 4 inches, and two reports reach that size: Round Rock in Williamson County on September 24, 2023, and Coupland in Williamson County on May 30, 2024. 7 of the eight rows above fall on September 24, 2023, 6 of them in Williamson County and one in Travis County. Hays County's largest stone in the file measured 3 inches.
Read these rows as observations rather than damage. The file holds no roof count, no square count and no repair price, so it cannot say what a metal roof costs or how a particular panel would fare against a stone of this size.
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, the file this site built on October 11, 2026. Records run to June 2, 2026. Preliminary: yes. These are field reports from NCEI, not confirmed damage counts.
Questions About Austin Metal Roof Cost
- What does a metal roof cost in Austin?
- This page prints no metal roof price. The City of Austin permit file does not record roofing material, and most re-roof permits leave the declared value blank, so the data cannot separate a metal roof from a shingle roof. Ask an Austin bidder for the panel system in writing, standing seam or exposed-fastener, next to the square count the price covers.
- Does the Austin permit file record whether a roof is metal?
- No. The City of Austin extract keeps 1,631 re-roof permits with no column for roofing material, and its declared value sits in a field named total_job_valuation on 32 of them, pulled October 13, 2026 (UTC). An Austin metal roof cannot be counted from the file, so no count is printed.
- What is the 75th percentile declared value on an Austin re-roof permit?
- The City of Austin re-roof permit file puts the 75th percentile of declared value at $60,000 and the median at $23,150, with $14,175 at the 25th percentile, on the 32 permits that state a value out of 1,631 kept, pulled October 13, 2026 (UTC). The top quarter of those permits declares at least $36,850 more than the median ($60,000 minus $23,150). With 32 values in the file, the percentile describes those permits rather than the going rate for an Austin metal roof.
- How much did insurers pay per policy in Williamson County in 2025?
- TDI lists $172,778,612 of Wind paid losses in Williamson County for 2025 on 152,186 policies in force, which is $1,135 per policy (Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, pulled October 13, 2026). Hays County is the lowest of the 3 counties listed, at $707 per policy. Insurer payments do not say what a metal roof costs.
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How Austin Compares With The Other Texas Metros
On this metal roof cost page, Austin is placed against the other Texas metros on two public figures. Austin re-roof permits in the City of Austin file declare a median of $23,150, the highest of 2 among the metros that publish one. Insurers paid $897 in Wind losses per policy in Travis County in 2025, the highest of 4 among the 4 metros.
| Metro | Permit valuation median | Rank | Wind loss per policy, 2025 | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Antonio | Not sourced | Not ranked | $594 | 3 of 4 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth | $12,198 | 2 of 2 | $885 | 2 of 4 |
| Houston | Not sourced | Not ranked | $490 | 4 of 4 |
| Austin (this page) | $23,150 | 1 of 2 | $897 | 1 of 4 |
Source for the Austin permit column on this metal roof cost page: the City of Austin open data file, pulled October 13, 2026, with the other metros read from the file that holds the most usable permits. Source for the Austin Wind column on this metal roof cost page: Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, Travis County, 2025, file read October 10, 2026. Neither Austin column on this metal roof cost page is preliminary, because the cities publish issued permits and the Department marks no year preliminary. In the Austin rows of this metal roof cost page, rank 1 is the highest figure, and a permit value is declared by the applicant, so it is not a price.
Cost Pages For This Metro
- Austin roof replacement cost: permit valuations and insurer paid losses.
- Austin roof tear-off cost: what the public files can and cannot say about tear-off.
- Austin roof replacement cost per square: the per-square answer, with its sources.
- Roof Replacement Cost By Metro In Texas: how Austin compares with the other Texas metros.
- Repair or replace a Austin roof: what decides between a repair and a full replacement before a Austin bid is signed.
- Spot a storm chaser roofer in Austin: the door-knock, contract and deductible tells to check before a Austin deposit.