Roof Replacement Cost in Arvada, Colorado (2026)
An asphalt re-roof of a 2,000 sq ft home in Arvada runs $7,560 to $16,740. The median Arvada household earns $113,396 a year, so that is 3.5 to 7.7 weeks of its pay. Arvada gets 130 freeze-thaw days, 6th highest of 209. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: Plan on about $12,150 for asphalt shingles in Arvada, or 5.6 weeks of the median household's $113,396. Metal roofs in Arvada cost $18,360 to $43,200; asphalt ranges from $7,560 to $16,740.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Arvada installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Arvada roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Arvada home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Arvada or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Arvada roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Arvada house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Arvada gets.
Price your own roof in Arvada
Arvada prices sit 8% over the national base. A typical Arvada roof is 5.6 weeks of local pay, 201st heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Arvada
- Extra tear-off included
How we calculated this
One sum produces the asphalt shingle range at the top of this page. You can redo it with a calculator.
| Step | What goes in | Value |
|---|---|---|
| National base, low end | 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles, $3.50 per sq ft × 2,000 sq ft | $7,000 |
| National base, high end | Architectural Asphalt Shingles, $7.75 per sq ft × 2,000 sq ft | $15,500 |
| Arvada cost index | Fixed for Arvada, not recalculated from wages | 1.08× |
| Arvada low | $7,000 × Arvada index 1.08 | $7,560, 3.5 weeks of Arvada pay |
| Arvada high | $15,500 × Arvada index 1.08 | $16,740, 7.7 weeks of Arvada pay |
| Arvada typical | Midpoint of the Arvada low and high, rounded to $50 | $12,150 |
- Where Arvada sits. The median index across the 209 cities we price is 0.89×. 186 of them are under 1.00× and 23 are over it.
- Roofer pay near Arvada. Shown above beside the price, from the BLS source. The index is not calculated from it.
Prices compiled June 2026, BLS pay OEWS May 2025. This is an estimate, not a quote. Why the range has a low and a high end and how the other materials are priced: full method, inputs and limits.
Cost by roofing material in Arvada
A typical asphalt roof in Arvada costs $12,150, which is 5.6 weeks of local pay and puts Arvada 201st of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Arvada | 4.6 | $10,000 | 1.7% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Arvada | 6.1 | $13,250 | 2.2% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Arvada | 11.6 | $25,400 | 4.2% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Arvada | 15.8 | $34,550 | 5.8% |
| Concrete Tile in Arvada | 10.4 | $22,700 | 3.8% |
| TPO / EPDM in Arvada* | 3.0 | $6,500 | 1.1% |
* Flat-roof prices are per 1,000 sq ft, not for a whole 2,000 sq ft house. Rated life: 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles 15–20 years; Architectural Asphalt Shingles 25–30 years; Metal (Steel/Aluminum) 40–70 years; Standing Seam Metal 50–70 years; Concrete Tile 40–50 years; TPO / EPDM (flat roofs) 15–25 years. How we calculated these prices · Sources
What weather does to a Arvada roof
- Freeze-thaw days. Water gets under shingles at night and expands as ice.
- Days at 90F or hotter. Heat bakes the oils out of asphalt and loosens sealant strips.
- Days with an inch of rain. Heavy rain tests flashing, valleys and gutters.
- Yearly precipitation. More water means more years of wet decking.
Rank 1 is the most days or inches among the cities we cover. Values are 2014–2023 averages of a 50 km grid cell around Arvada. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Storms behind Arvada roof bills
Public NOAA records for Arvada's county.
- 45days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2.75 inlargest hailstone reported
- 10days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 209 hail reports for Arvada's county since 2014. June is the busiest month with 84 of them, 40% of the total.
Busiest three: June 84, May 48, August 39.
No hail was reported in 7 of the 12 months (January to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was May 8, 2017, with $2,300,000,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $2,300,000,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Jefferson County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 20 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 16 |
| 2019 | 15 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 15 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 46 |
| 2024 | 9 |
| 2025 | 12 |
| 2026* | 22 |
159 recorded hail events across 9 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data, about 15.2 per represented full year. 2023 had the most events among represented full years: 46.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Arvada's $7,560–$16,740 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Arvada pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.23 weeks in Arvada | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.46 weeks in Arvada | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 1.1 weeks in Arvada | $2,500 |
Arvada against nearby Colorado cities
6 neighbors share 1.08×, against Arvada's 1.08×. Closest is Westminster, about 4 mi out.
Distances are to scale. Dot size is weeks of local pay for a typical asphalt roof, so a bigger dot means a heavier bill for that city's households.
| City | Weeks of pay | Price vs here | Contractors (verified) | Hail events, since 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arvada (this page) | 5.6 | — | 30 (0) | 159 |
| Westminster roofers ≈4 mi from Arvada |
6.6 | same | 21 (0) | 146 |
| Denver roofers ≈7 mi from Arvada |
6.9 | same | 21 (0) | 124 |
| Boulder roofers ≈18 mi from Arvada |
7.4 | same | 23 (0) | 130 |
| Longmont roofers ≈25 mi from Arvada |
7.0 | same | 30 (0) | 130 |
| Loveland roofers ≈41 mi from Arvada |
7.6 | same | 26 (0) | 143 |
| Greeley roofers ≈47 mi from Arvada |
9.2 | same | 28 (0) | 386 |
On the cost index Arvada sits at 1.08×, and a Arvada roof takes 5.6 weeks of its pay, rank 201 of 209.
Repair or replace in Arvada
The median Arvada home was built in 1979, so an original roof would be 47 years old, past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for. Here a repair mostly buys time. 52.7% of Arvada homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Arvada | $700 | 0.32 |
| Larger repair in Arvada | $3,250 | 1.5 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Arvada | $6,100 | 2.8 |
| One year of roof life in Arvada | $442 | 0.20 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Arvada: a typical architectural roof divided by its rated 25–30 years. A repair is worth paying for when it buys at least as many years as its cost divided by that figure. The 50% rule is a common rule of thumb, not a law.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Arvada
Share of median home value
In Arvada a typical re-roof takes 2.0% of the $600,800 median home value. Only 3 cities carry a lighter ratio.
Source: Census ACS (Arvada city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
52.7% of Arvada homes predate 1980. The median Arvada home was built in 1979, so a roof never replaced there is 47 years old. Oldest-first, Arvada stands #101 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Arvada city), 2019–2023The Arvada roofing market
Arvada, Colorado's 7th most populous city with 124,402 residents in 2020, spans 39.57 square miles across Jefferson and Adams counties just 7 miles northwest of Denver's State Capitol. The city was platted in 1870 and named after Hiram Arvada Haskin, incorporating officially in 1904. By mid-20th century it earned the nickname Celery Capital of the World. Colorado's first supermarket opened in downtown Arvada in 1947. Today the Olde Town Arvada historic district anchors community life, and RTD commuter rail connects residents to Denver's Union Station.
Roofing companies in Arvada's county
- 121roofing establishments with paid employees
- 457paid roofing employees
- 87.6%have fewer than 5 employees
- 3.8employees per firm on average
87.6% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 24 points above the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 3.8 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 30 roofing contractors listed in Arvada. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Arvada metro earns a median $55,830 a year, $4,080 above the $51,750 statewide median. 27 of 141 metros pay more than the Arvada area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025License and permit in Colorado
Arvada roofers: No statewide roofing license.
Permit: Arvada's building office. General information, not legal advice.
Source: verification methodArvada roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Arvada household earns $113,396 a year, or $2,181 a week. A Arvada asphalt re-roof, typically $12,150, takes 5.6 weeks of that.
Westminster ($12,150 typical, 4 miles away) takes 6.6 weeks of its own pay, 1.00 weeks more than Arvada.
200 of 208 other cities ask for more, 8 for less.
Sum for Arvada: $12,150 ÷ ($113,396 ÷ 52) = 5.6 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Arvada city), 2019–2023Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Arvada
- Central Arvada
- East Arvada
- Green Valley Ranch
- North Arvada
- South Arvada
ZIP codes: 80002, 80003, 80004, 80017, 80025.
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