Primary data only. Permit files pulled . TDI file pulled .
Austin issues re-roof permits, and the extract this site keeps from the file records the permit number, date and declared value. It has no field for layers removed.
Where the declared value is filled in, it covers the whole job. It cannot be split into new roof and tear-off.
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 the work inside the job, such as layers removed.
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 tear-off work, so TDI cannot price Austin tear-offs 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 tear-off question has no price in either.
What Do Austin Re-Roof Permits Show?
City of Austin
On the Austin tear-off question, the City of Austin file holds 1,631 unique re-roof permits issued from October 13, 2023 to October 9, 2026. For the roof tear-off 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 tear-off 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 roof tear-off 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 roof tear-off 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 job included a tear-off or a layover, so the range cannot be split by that.
What Did Austin Insurers Pay Per Policy Around Tear-Off Jobs?
For this Austin tear-off 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 roof tear-off 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 tear-off 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 tear-off 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 tear-off 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 Tear-Off Line Against Williamson County Numbers
Williamson County is the second largest of the Austin counties, 152,186 in 2025. TDI lists $172,778,612 of Wind paid losses there. $172,778,612 divided by 152,186 is $1,135 per policy, which is the $1,135 the file prints in its Loss per policy column. That $1,135 averages every policy in Williamson County and says nothing about the layers or square count of one tear-off there.
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 roof tear-off 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 Tear-Off Quote?
The Austin files above cannot rank these roof tear-off cost drivers, so they are listed as questions for each Austin bidder. The Austin roof tear-off lines come from this site's guide to reading a roofing estimate, each of which lists its own sources.
- The number of layers on the Austin roof now, written on the quote, since each layer is more material to remove and haul.
- Whether disposal and a nail sweep sit inside the Austin tear-off line or are billed apart.
- Decking repair once the Austin roof is off, priced per sheet so a surprise has a known rate.
- The squares the Austin quote covers, because a tear-off line is only comparable between bids that measure the same roof.
- Underlayment, flashing and drip edge on the Austin roof, replaced or reused, each as its own line.
- Who pulls the permit in Austin (City of Austin listed 465 re-roof permits in 2025) and whether the fee is shown.
Sources for this Austin tear-off 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 tear-off page, figures are final as published by each source; the 2026 permit counts are partial.
How Much Hail Is On Record For The Austin Area?
A tear-off is often the first line of a storm claim, so the hail record behind the counties on this page is worth reading next to the insurer figures above. NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 581 hail reports in Travis, Williamson and Hays counties from 2010 to June 2, 2026, the newest event in the file this site reads. The file was built October 11, 2026, and NOAA enters events after they happen, so the 2026 count is short.
| County | Hail reports | Days with hail | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williamson | 249 | 67 | 4 inches |
| Travis | 233 | 64 | 3 inches |
| Hays | 99 | 41 | 3 inches |
Williamson County carries the most reports, 249 of the 581, and the largest stone in the record at 4 inches. Hays County carries the fewest, 99. Across the three counties 76 reports were 2 inches or larger. A report is one observation at one place and time, so it counts neither roofs nor claims.
The heaviest day in the record is September 24, 2023, with 63 reports across Travis and Williamson counties and stones up to 4 inches. The next two are April 9, 2024, at 28 reports, and May 16, 2025, at 21.
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, file built October 11, 2026, newest event June 2, 2026; reports are preliminary. The Austin hail history page lists every report by year, month and stone size.
Three County Hail Reports By Year, 2010 To 2026: One Inch Counts Travis Only
A tear-off is usually booked after a storm, so the year by year hail record for the three counties this page reads belongs next to the permit counts above. NOAA's Storm Events Database file this site keeps holds 581 hail reports in Travis, Williamson and Hays counties from 2010 to 2026, and the table below splits that record by calendar year, one row per year.
The report, hail day, two inch and largest stone columns cover the whole metro file, all three counties. The two inch column counts metro reports at two inches or larger, the finest stone threshold the metro rows carry. The one inch column is Travis County alone, the county Austin sits in, the only one inch count in the file. 2026 is incomplete: the newest event in the file is June 2, 2026 and NOAA enters events after they happen.
| Year | Hail reports, three counties | Hail days, three counties | Reports 2 inches or larger, three counties | Reports 1 inch or larger, Travis County | Largest stone, three counties (in) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 32 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 1.75 |
| 2012 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1.75 |
| 2013 | 36 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 1.75 |
| 2014 | 45 | 5 | 1 | 25 | 2 |
| 2015 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 2 |
| 2016 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1.75 |
| 2017 | 31 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 1.75 |
| 2018 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1.25 |
| 2019 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 27 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 2.75 |
| 2021 | 40 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1.75 |
| 2023 | 112 | 11 | 26 | 46 | 4 |
| 2024 | 59 | 7 | 19 | 28 | 4 |
| 2025 | 97 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 3 |
| 2026 (incomplete) | 15 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
Across the 16 complete years in the file, 2025 had the most hail days at 12, with 97 reports and a stone of 3 inches, and 2010 had the fewest at 2, with 5 reports. A stone of 2 inches or larger was reported in 8 of the 17 calendar years, and the largest stone in the metro record is 4 inches, reported in 2023 and 2024. Travis County alone logged 169 reports at one inch or larger over the same file.
A report is one observation sent to the National Weather Service, and one storm produces many, so a year with more reports can mean more observers rather than more stones. A hail day counts a calendar date with at least one report somewhere in the three counties. Neither number is a damaged roof, an insurance claim or an invoice.
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, file built October 11, 2026, newest event June 2, 2026. Reports are preliminary and NOAA revises recent months. The Austin hail history page carries the same year by year series beside the month and county tables.
Travis County Hail Reports By Calendar Month, 2010 To 2026
Austin sits in Travis County, and the NOAA file behind the tables above also carries a month by month count for that county alone. This table adds every year in the file together, so each row is one calendar month across 2010 to 2026, not a single season.
| Month | Hail reports, Travis County |
|---|---|
| January | 3 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 49 |
| April | 69 |
| May | 65 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 0 |
| August | 0 |
| September | 33 |
| October | 0 |
| November | 1 |
| December | 2 |
April holds the most reports in the file, 69 of 233 across the twelve months. The count is hail observations sent to the National Weather Service, and one storm produces many of them, so a busy month can mean more observers rather than more stones. It is not a count of damaged roofs, insurance claims or invoices.
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, file built October 11, 2026, newest event June 2, 2026. Recent months are preliminary and NOAA revises them. The Austin hail history page prints the same month count beside the county and year tables.
Which Months Do City Of Austin Re-Roof Permits Cluster In?
A tear-off is booked when a roof job is scheduled, so the months the city files re-roof permits are part of the same schedule. This block reads the 1,632 permits naming re-roof work in the City of Austin Issued Construction Permits open data, the extract this site keeps, whose counts run by issue date from October 11, 2023 to October 9, 2026. The file was built October 11, 2026.
The rows below pool every year in the file by calendar month. The window opens on October 11, 2023 and the extract stops on October 9, 2026, so the first and last months in the file are partial and are left out. Each row prints the complete months it covers, so a month with fewer entries is not read as a smaller one.
| Month | Complete months in file | Permits naming re-roof work | Average per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 3 | 98 | 32.7 |
| February | 3 | 75 | 25.0 |
| March | 3 | 142 | 47.3 |
| April | 3 | 158 | 52.7 |
| May | 3 | 152 | 50.7 |
| June | 3 | 199 | 66.3 |
| July | 3 | 144 | 48.0 |
| August | 3 | 185 | 61.7 |
| September | 3 | 162 | 54.0 |
| October | 2 | 108 | 54.0 |
| November | 3 | 72 | 24.0 |
| December | 3 | 108 | 36.0 |
Across the 35 complete months in the file, 1,603 permits name re-roof work. June has the highest average, 66.3 permits a month over 3 complete months, and November has the lowest, 24.0 over 3. October appears in 2 complete months because of the window edges, which is why its total is smaller than the other rows.
A permit is a filing and not a roof: several permits can sit on one building, one permit can cover a whole roof, and the file records no layer count, no square count and no job price, which is why this page prints no tear-off price.
Source: City of Austin, Issued Construction Permits (Austin Open Data), the re-roof extract this site keeps, built October 11, 2026. Records stop at October 9, 2026 and later filings are not in the file. Preliminary: no, an issued permit is a final record, but the file is a snapshot of a live dataset.
Which Contractors Hold Austin Re-Roof Permit Ranks 4 To 40?
This block reads one column of the City of Austin permit file: how many re-roof permits each contractor holds. The holder with the largest count sits at rank 1 and the fortieth sits at rank 40, in the order the extract carries them. The first three holders are already named in prose on the Austin commercial bids page, so this table picks up at rank 4 and prints the remaining 37 rows.
A rank in this table counts filings. It is not a grade, a quality score or a recommendation, and nothing behind a permit was inspected for this block. Where two holders carry the same count they share that count, and the extract's order decides which of them prints first.
| Rank | Permit holder | Re-roof permits |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | JMI CONTRACTORS LLC | 70 |
| 5 | Tex Roofing LLC | 52 |
| 6 | NEEDHAM ROOFING | 52 |
| 7 | Green Knight Metal Roofing | 42 |
| 8 | Texas Fifth Wall Roofing Systems | 41 |
| 9 | North Gable Contractors | 32 |
| 10 | Foundation Specialists, Inc | 30 |
| 11 | Empire Roofing Companies LLC **MAIN** | 29 |
| 12 | Kentex Roofing Systems | 28 |
| 13 | Republic Roofing and Construction | 28 |
| 14 | Oden Construction | 26 |
| 15 | Linder Reconstruction Services | 24 |
| 16 | Integro Construction Services | 24 |
| 17 | Caden Roofing, Sheetmetal and General Contracting | 24 |
| 18 | Techline Roofing and Restoration | 21 |
| 19 | Texas Star Roofing & Construction | 17 |
| 20 | Bird Creek Roofing and Construction | 15 |
| 21 | Linear Roofing & General Contractors | 14 |
| 22 | Texas Coast Interests | 14 |
| 23 | Precision Reconstruction Group | 14 |
| 24 | Kanga Roof LLC | 13 |
| 25 | L.O.A. Construction, LLC | 9 |
| 26 | Gage Multifamily Serv | 9 |
| 27 | Drury Roofing | 9 |
| 28 | Wheels on Texas | 9 |
| 29 | Charter Roofing Company | 9 |
| 30 | Jamar Roofing | 8 |
| 31 | Protractor Services | 8 |
| 32 | XYZ ROOFCO, LLC | 8 |
| 33 | Contractors Incorporated | 7 |
| 34 | Partners Commercial Roofing LLC | 7 |
| 35 | Ridgepoint General Contractors, Inc. | 7 |
| 36 | On-Call Management Services, Inc | 7 |
| 37 | Lanyard Construction Services | 7 |
| 38 | Seres Solutions, LLC | 7 |
| 39 | Champion Contractors & Services | 6 |
| 40 | Port Enterprises, Ltd | 6 |
The 37 holders above account for 733 re-roof permits, 44.9% of the 1,632 permits in the extract. That total includes the 69 permits whose contractor field is blank, so the shares do not add to 100. The counts run from 70 permits at rank 4 down to 6 at rank 40.
Where the table comes from: the re-roof extract of the City of Austin Issued Construction Permits dataset on Austin Open Data, assembled October 11, 2026. The extract stops at October 9, 2026, and filings made after that date sit outside it. Status: an issued permit is a final record, while the dataset it comes from is live and changes.
Questions About Austin Roof Tear-Off Cost
- What does roof tear-off cost in Austin?
- This page prints no tear-off price. The City of Austin permit file does not record the work inside a re-roof job, and most re-roof permits leave the declared value blank, so tear-off is not in the data. An Austin bidder should itemize tear-off on its own line, with the layer count and the rate.
- Does Austin publish a flat re-roof permit fee?
- No fee schedule could be opened on October 19, 2026: three of the four Austin fee addresses returned a 404 and the permit search portal lists no fee. Austin's re-roof fee is therefore left off this page, and a bidder should show it on the quote.
- How many Austin re-roof permits state a job value?
- 32 of the 1,631 re-roof permits in the City of Austin extract carry a usable total_job_valuation, which is 2.0% of the file, pulled October 13, 2026 (UTC). The rest are blank, zero or under $100. A tear-off cannot be separated from the rest of a job in this file, and 32 permits is a thin base for any tear-off conclusion.
- Which Austin-area county had the highest Wind loss per policy in 2025?
- Williamson County, at $1,135 of Wind paid per policy, on $172,778,612 paid across 152,186 policies in force (Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, pulled October 13, 2026). Hays County sits lowest among the 3 counties listed, at $707 per policy. Wind losses are insurer payments and say nothing about the layers on an Austin roof.
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How Austin Compares With The Other Texas Metros
On this roof tear-off 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 tear-off 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 tear-off cost page: Texas Department of Insurance homeowners losses by county, Travis County, 2025, file read October 10, 2026. Neither Austin column on this roof tear-off cost page is preliminary, because the cities publish issued permits and the Department marks no year preliminary. In the Austin rows of this roof tear-off 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 metal roof cost: what the public files can and cannot say about metal.
- 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.