Built from this site's own records, newest read October 25, 2026.
Installed cost per square, by material
Rates read 2026-10-11 from published price pages of Austin roofing companies. Each range runs from the median of the sources’ low figures to the median of their high figures, rounded to the nearest $50, because the pages disagree. Per-square-foot prices are multiplied by 100. Contractor marketing pages are estimates, not quotes.
| Material | Per square, installed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Architectural asphalt shingle | $500 to $850 | A1, A2, A3, A4, A7 |
| Standing seam metal | $850 to $1,500 | A1, A2, A3, A5 |
| Concrete or clay tile | $900 to $1,500 | A1, A2, A3 |
What does a roof cost by size?
Each Austin cell is the number of roofing squares times the architectural shingle low or high rate above ($500 and $850 per square), before tear-off. The Austin price pages give a range, not a median, so the table shows the low and the high.
| 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 |
Source: Austin rates read October 11, 2026 from published price pages (A1, A2, A3, A4, A7). The Austin rates are not preliminary and are refreshed at least twice a year.
What that means for one house
A 2,000 square foot Austin footprint at a medium pitch (6 in 12, multiplier 1.118) carries about 22.4 squares. At the Austin architectural shingle range that is $11,180 to $19,006 before tear-off, and one layer of tear-off adds $2,236 to $6,708 at $100 to $300 per square.
Steeper pitch raises the Austin square count, not the per-square rate: the multiplier is 1.031 at 3 in 12 and 1.414 at 12 in 12.
How Many Austin Roofing Permits Are On File?
A per-square rate answers what a roof costs; the permit file answers how much replacement work the city records. Filtering the City of Austin Issued Construction Permits open data to building permits that name re-roof work returns 1,632 permits issued between October 11, 2023 and October 9, 2026. The file this site reads was built October 11, 2026, and the count is by issue date.
Those permits carry 459 distinct permit holder names, and 69 permits carry no holder name at all. A permit is a filing, not a roof: several permits can sit on one building, one permit can cover a whole roof, and the file reports neither the price paid nor the number of squares installed.
| Year | Permits |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 65 |
| 2024 | 698 |
| 2025 | 465 |
| 2026 | 404 |
Two full years sit inside the window. 2024 carries 698 permits and 2025 carries 465, so 2025 holds the lower count. 2023 covers only the weeks from October 11, 2023 to the end of that year, and 2026 stops on October 9, 2026.
The three busiest months in the file are June 2024 with 96 permits, June 2026 with 88 and August 2024 with 86. A busy month records filings, and the file states no reason for a filing, so no storm month is read from it here.
The city publishes the file as open data, and the re-roof rows are selected by a keyword rule on permit descriptions rather than by a dedicated roofing permit type. A replacement recorded under wording the rule misses will not appear, so the total is a floor for issued re-roof permits in the window, not a census of every roof replaced in Austin.
Source: City of Austin, Issued Construction Permits (Austin Open Data), dataset https://data.austintexas.gov/resource/3syk-w9eu, pulled October 9, 2026, file built October 11, 2026, date basis issued. Counts are permits, not roofs or claims. The Austin roofing permit page sets out the filter and what the city does and does not publish.
Which Hail Days Moved Austin's Re-Roof Permit Count?
The permit block above counts every re-roof permit the City of Austin issued in its open data window. This block asks a narrower question: what the city issued in the 30 days after a single hail day. The metro's storm file holds 27 days with a hail report between January 1, 2024 and October 12, 2026, and 11 of them meet the page threshold this site uses: a stone of 1.75 inches or wider, or at least three reports in one day. For each of those days this site counted the re-roof permits the city issued from the next day through 30 days later.
Across the 11 windows the count ran from 14 permits to 97 against a standing baseline of 45 permits per 30 days, which is the file's average re-roof count over its whole window. 6 windows ran above that baseline, 5 ran below. The busiest window opened on May 31, 2024, the day after the May 30, 2024 hail day, and held 97 permits. The quietest opened on May 23, 2025, after the May 22, 2025 hail day, and held 14.
Stone size does not sort the list. 3 storm days carry a stone of 3 inches or wider, and 2 of their windows ran under the baseline. A hail day records where a stone was reported, not which roofs it reached, and the permit file records the date a permit was issued and the work it names, not a reason for the filing. This page pairs the two files and reads no cause from the pairing.
| Hail day | Largest stone (in) | Reports | Re-roof permits in 30 days | Window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1, 2024 | 1.50 | 6 | 47 | April 2, 2024 to May 1, 2024 |
| April 9, 2024 | 2.50 | 33 | 46 | April 10, 2024 to May 9, 2024 |
| May 9, 2024 | 3.00 | 16 | 39 | May 10, 2024 to June 8, 2024 |
| May 30, 2024 | 4.00 | 6 | 97 | May 31, 2024 to June 29, 2024 |
| March 23, 2025 | 1.25 | 9 | 41 | March 24, 2025 to April 22, 2025 |
| April 22, 2025 | 2.50 | 15 | 83 | April 23, 2025 to May 22, 2025 |
| April 30, 2025 | 2.50 | 7 | 75 | May 1, 2025 to May 30, 2025 |
| May 16, 2025 | 3.00 | 18 | 15 | May 17, 2025 to June 15, 2025 |
| May 22, 2025 | 2.75 | 13 | 14 | May 23, 2025 to June 21, 2025 |
| May 28, 2025 | 2.00 | 12 | 15 | May 29, 2025 to June 27, 2025 |
| May 19, 2026 | 1.00 | 3 | 61 | May 20, 2026 to June 18, 2026 |
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center, preliminary local storm reports for hail, one day file per row, metro file built October 13, 2026 and covering January 1, 2024 to October 12, 2026 at a 1 inch threshold. Those reports are preliminary field reports, not confirmed damage. Permit counts: City of Austin, Issued Construction Permits (Austin Open Data), issued-date basis, as of October 9, 2026, matched in this site's storm-permits file built October 16, 2026. Counts are permits, not roofs or claims. The Austin roofing permit page sets out the filter behind them.
Related pages
- Roof replacement cost in Austin
- Roof tear-off cost in Austin
- Metal roof cost in Austin
- Roof replacement cost calculator
- Roof replacement cost by metro in Texas
More questions homeowners ask in Austin
Frequently Asked Questions
- Roof replacement cost per square in Austin
- Architectural shingle runs $500 to $850 per roofing square installed in Austin, and standing seam metal $850 to $1,500, from published Austin price pages read October 11, 2026.
- What is a roofing square?
- One hundred square feet of roof surface. A Austin roof surface is larger than the house footprint by the pitch multiplier, 1.118 at a 6 in 12 pitch.
- Is tear-off included in the per-square price?
- Not in the Austin ranges above. One layer of tear-off is priced separately at $100 to $300 per square, and an estimate should show it as its own line.
- How old are these rates?
- The Austin rates were read October 11, 2026, they are refreshed at least twice a year, and each Austin source above carries its own page.
Where these figures come from
- Austin Roofing Company, published price page. https://austinroofingcompany.com/guides/roof-replacement-cost-austin-tx. Read October 19, 2026.
- Altitude Roofing, published price page. https://altituderoofs.com/blogs/roof-replacement-cost-in-austin/. Read October 19, 2026.
- Roofsonly, published price page. https://www.roofsonly.com/blog/austin-roof-replacement-cost/. Read October 19, 2026.
- Texland Construction, published price page. https://www.texlandconstruction.com/post/how-much-does-a-new-roof-cost-austin-tx. Read October 19, 2026.
- Charles & Hudson, published price page. https://charlesandhudson.com/?p=35991. Read October 11, 2026.
- Ripple Roofing & Construction, published price page. https://rippleroofs.com/blog/roof-replacement-cost-austin-texas-2025. Read October 19, 2026.
- JB Contracting ATX, published price page. https://www.jbcontractingatx.com/blog-roof-replacement-cost-austin.html. Read October 24, 2026.
How Austin Compares With The Other Texas Metros
On this roof cost per square 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 cost per square 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 cost per square page: Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, Travis County, 2025, file read October 10, 2026. Neither Austin column on this roof cost per square page is preliminary, because the cities publish issued permits and the Department marks no year preliminary. In the Austin rows of this roof cost per square 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 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.
- Roof Replacement Cost By Metro In Texas: how Austin compares with the other Texas metros.