Primary data only. Permit files pulled . TDI file pulled .
This page does not quote roofing company price lists. It reads the City of Austin permit file and the Texas Department of Insurance paid-loss file, and prints the dataset, pull date and row count with each figure.
The permit figures describe 32 permits out of 1,631. A small group chosen by who filled in the field is not a sample of Austin roofs, so treat the percentiles as a record of those permits only.
What Do Austin Re-Roof Permits Declare?
A Austin permit applicant states a job value when the city issues the permit. For Austin, we take every re-roof permit in the city file, keep the ones with a usable value and print the 25th percentile, the median and the 75th percentile of what was declared. A declared valuation in Austin is the applicant’s figure on a permit. It is not an invoice, a quote or a price per square, and nothing on this Austin page is one.
City of Austin
| 25th percentile | Median | 75th percentile | Permits used |
|---|---|---|---|
| $14,175 | $23,150 | $60,000 | 32 |
32 of 1,631 re-roof permits (2.0%) carry a usable value. Not used: 1,124 blank, 7 zero and 468 under $100.
The extract holds permits issued October 13, 2023 to October 9, 2026, a window of 36 months. 468 permits list a value under $100, almost all of them $1, which is a placeholder and not a roof price.
- Dataset
- City of Austin Issued Construction Permits, Socrata 3syk-w9eu
- Valuation field
total_job_valuation- Pull date
- (UTC), as published by the city. Not marked preliminary by the city; the newest weeks of any permit file can still change.
- Rows
- 2,311 records returned by the portal query, 1,631 unique re-roof permits kept, 32 with a usable value.
- Permits issued
- October 13, 2023 to October 9, 2026, by the date each permit was issued.
What Did Texas Insurers Pay On Homeowners Claims In Austin Counties?
In the three counties listed below insurers paid $465,274,260 in homeowners losses labeled Wind in 2025 and $639,428,812 in 2024. Those are claims paid across the counties, not a roof price.
For Austin, the Texas Department of Insurance publishes paid losses on homeowners policies by county and loss type. The Austin figures below add up the 3 counties listed here (Travis, Williamson and Hays) for each calendar year from 2019 to 2025. In the Austin table, each column keeps the label the TDI file uses: Wind and Total Paid Loss. For Austin counties, TDI says the data does not include wind or hail losses paid by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) and does not include renters, condo or dwelling policies.
| Year | Wind | Total Paid Loss | Policies in force |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $109,405,407 | $246,948,650 | 418,045 |
| 2020 | $238,314,853 | $375,474,343 | 441,215 |
| 2021 | $783,710,193 | $1,174,595,198 | 462,009 |
| 2022 | $295,222,781 | $533,448,557 | 477,771 |
| 2023 | $788,797,612 | $1,091,585,754 | 484,526 |
| 2024 | $639,428,812 | $871,168,409 | 489,150 |
| 2025 | $465,274,260 | $716,989,722 | 492,409 |
Source: https://tdi.texas.gov/general/documents/home-owners-losses-by-county-25.csv (TDI page: https://tdi.texas.gov/consumer/homeowners-losses-by-county.html, last updated by TDI). Pulled (UTC). TDI does not mark any year preliminary on that page, so no Austin year here is preliminary. Policies in force is the year-end count TDI reports on the Total Paid Loss row, added across counties.
Wind Paid Losses By County
| County | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travis | $47,386,276 | $51,728,005 | $398,845,336 | $124,497,745 | $295,232,957 | $292,757,614 | $245,245,694 |
| Williamson | $46,565,298 | $172,248,533 | $346,213,239 | $151,815,209 | $434,715,130 | $178,874,707 | $172,778,612 |
| Hays | $15,453,833 | $14,338,315 | $38,651,618 | $18,909,827 | $58,849,525 | $167,796,491 | $47,249,954 |
Hail Days In Travis, Williamson And Hays Counties, 2021 To 2025
Hail is one reason a roof gets replaced, so the record for the counties this site reads around Austin sits beside the permit and insurer figures above. NOAA's Storm Events Database file holds 581 hail reports in Travis, Williamson and Hays counties from 2010 to June 2, 2026. 76 of those reports, 13.1%, describe a stone 2 inches in diameter or larger.
The table counts hail days: a date on which at least one report was filed in that county. One storm can mark more than one county and a single date can carry dozens of reports, so a county day is not a damaged roof and not an insurance claim.
| County | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Five-year total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travis | 6 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 25 |
| Williamson | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 26 |
| Hays | 4 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 |
Across the five years the three counties record 64 county hail days: 25 in Travis, 26 in Williamson and 13 in Hays. Williamson's 10 days in 2025 is the highest single county-year in the window. Hays records none in 2022, the only zero across the three counties in these five years.
Read this beside the permit figures above, not in place of them. The hail file says how often the counties log stones at a size that send a roof to inspection. It holds no job value, no square count and no contractor price, so the percentiles from the permit file remain the only cost record on this page.
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, the file this site built on October 11, 2026. Records run through June 2, 2026. 2026 is left out because NCEI is still adding events to that year. Preliminary: yes, every count here is a field report, not a confirmed damage count.
What Does A Austin Roof Cost By Size?
In Austin, 5 published price pages put an architectural shingle roof at $500 to $850 per roofing square installed, so a 25-square roof (2,500 square feet of roof surface) runs $12,500 to $21,250 before tear-off.
For Austin, each cell below is the number of roofing squares times the lowest low or the highest high of the architectural shingle rates on the pages listed under the table, before tear-off.
| Roofing squares | Roof surface (sq ft) | At the low rate | At the high rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 1,500 | $7,500 | $12,750 |
| 20 | 2,000 | $10,000 | $17,000 |
| 25 | 2,500 | $12,500 | $21,250 |
| 30 | 3,000 | $15,000 | $25,500 |
| 35 | 3,500 | $17,500 | $29,750 |
Austin rate: $500 to $850 per square, not preliminary, from the 5 pages below and the date we read each.
- Austin Roofing Company: https://austinroofingcompany.com/guides/roof-replacement-cost-austin-tx, read .
- Altitude Roofing: https://altituderoofs.com/blogs/roof-replacement-cost-in-austin/, read .
- Roofsonly: https://www.roofsonly.com/blog/austin-roof-replacement-cost/, read .
- Texland Construction: https://www.texlandconstruction.com/post/how-much-does-a-new-roof-cost-austin-tx, read .
- JB Contracting ATX: https://www.jbcontractingatx.com/blog-roof-replacement-cost-austin.html, read .
How Were These Figures Computed?
Two scripts in the site repository do all of the Austin arithmetic: scripts/build-cost-valuations.mjs downloads each city file and keeps the re-roof permits, and scripts/compute-cost-figures.mjs reads the saved extracts in data/cost-primary/ and writes every number on this Austin page. For Austin, a value is used only if it is at least $100; blanks, zeros and placeholders such as $1 are counted and left out. Austin percentiles use linear interpolation between ranked values, the method behind Excel’s PERCENTILE.INC. Dollar figures are rounded to the nearest dollar.
Questions About Austin Roof Replacement Cost
- What is the average cost of a roof replacement in Austin?
- This page reports a median, not an average, because a few very large jobs pull an average away from the typical permit. Of 1,631 Austin re-roof permits, 32 carry a usable declared value (2.0%). Those 32 declare a median of $23,150, with a 25th percentile of $14,175 and a 75th percentile of $60,000. The other 1,599 permits are blank, zero or a placeholder under $100, so these figures describe that small group and not every Austin roof replacement. A declared valuation is not a quote.
- How many Austin re-roof permits state a usable declared value?
- Of the 1,631 re-roof permits in the City of Austin extract, 32 state a value at or above $100, which is 2.0% of the file, pulled October 13, 2026 (UTC). 1,124 permits leave the field blank, 7 state zero and 468 state a figure below the floor.
- How much did Texas insurers pay in Wind losses across the Austin area in 2025?
- TDI lists $465,274,260 of Wind paid losses for 2025 across the 3 counties on this page, and $716,989,722 of Total Paid Loss over the same counties and year (Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, pulled October 13, 2026). Williamson County accounts for $172,778,612 of the Wind figure, Travis County $245,245,694 and Hays County $47,249,954.
- Which Austin-area county had the highest Wind paid losses in 2025?
- Travis County, at $245,245,694 for 2025 (Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, pulled October 13, 2026). Hays County closes the three at $47,249,954. The dollar figures count claims paid on homeowners policies, so none of them is a quote for a roof replacement.
Where Can I Read More?
- Austin ranked roofing companies: the full ranking with its inputs.
- Austin roofing permit guide: what the city file records and how we read it.
- Austin hail history: storm reports by year.
- How to check an Austin roofer: the public records to open before anyone signs.
- Austin metal roof cost: what the public files can and cannot say about metal.
- Austin roof tear-off cost: what the public files can and cannot say about tear-off.
- How Austin compares with the other Texas metros: roof replacement cost by metro.
- What the permit costs in each Texas city: roof permit fees by metro.
- Methodology: how the site researches and ranks roofers.
How Austin Compares With The Other Texas Metros
On this roof replacement 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 roof replacement 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 roof replacement cost page: Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, Travis County, 2025, file read October 10, 2026. Neither Austin column on this roof replacement cost page is preliminary, because the cities publish issued permits and the Department marks no year preliminary. In the Austin rows of this roof replacement 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 metal roof cost: what the public files can and cannot say about metal.
- 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.
- Metal roof or shingles for Austin hail: how impact ratings work, so a Austin metal quote can be compared with a shingle quote.