Roof Replacement Cost in Bossier City, Louisiana (2026)
Bossier City homeowners pay $6,160 to $13,640 to put asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft house, roughly 5.8 to 12.9 weeks of the $55,130 a year the median Bossier City household takes in. Bossier City gets 92 days at 90f or hotter, 20th highest of 209. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: In Bossier City the typical asphalt re-roof costs $9,900, which is 9.3 weeks of local pay on a $55,130 median household income. Metal in Bossier City runs $14,960 to $35,200, and the Bossier City asphalt range is $6,160 to $13,640.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Bossier City installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Bossier City roof cost per month?
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How much life is left in my Bossier City roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Bossier City house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Bossier City gets.
Price your own roof in Bossier City
Bossier City prices sit 12% under the national base. A typical Bossier City roof is 9.3 weeks of local pay, 77th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Bossier City
- 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 |
| Bossier City cost index | Fixed for Bossier City, not recalculated from wages | 0.88× |
| Bossier City low | $7,000 × Bossier City index 0.88 | $6,160, 5.8 weeks of Bossier City pay |
| Bossier City high | $15,500 × Bossier City index 0.88 | $13,640, 12.9 weeks of Bossier City pay |
| Bossier City typical | Midpoint of the Bossier City low and high, rounded to $50 | $9,900 |
- Where Bossier City 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 Bossier City. 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 Bossier City
A typical asphalt roof in Bossier City costs $9,900, which is 9.3 weeks of local pay and puts Bossier City 77th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Bossier City | 7.7 | $8,150 | 4.2% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Bossier City | 10.2 | $10,800 | 5.6% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Bossier City | 19.5 | $20,700 | 10.8% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Bossier City | 26.6 | $28,150 | 14.6% |
| Concrete Tile in Bossier City | 17.4 | $18,500 | 9.6% |
| TPO / EPDM in Bossier City* | 5.0 | $5,300 | 2.8% |
* 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 Bossier City 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 Bossier City. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Storms behind Bossier City roof bills
Public NOAA records for Bossier City's county.
- 28days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 4 inlargest hailstone reported
- 77days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 92 hail reports for Bossier City's county since 2014. April is the busiest month with 40 of them, 43% of the total.
Busiest three: April 40, March 14, May 14.
No hail was reported in 4 of the 12 months (July to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was April 13, 2018, with $3,000,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $8,424,500. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 23 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF2.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Bossier Parish
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 7 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2020 | 19 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 10 |
| 2026* | 8 |
80 recorded hail events across 9 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data, about 8 per represented full year. 2020 had the most events among represented full years: 19.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Bossier City's $6,160–$13,640 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Bossier City pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.47 weeks in Bossier City | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.94 weeks in Bossier City | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.4 weeks in Bossier City | $2,500 |
Bossier City roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Bossier City household earns $55,130 a year, or $1,060 a week. A Bossier City asphalt re-roof, typically $9,900, takes 9.3 weeks of that.
Shreveport ($9,200 typical, 1 miles away) takes 9.9 weeks of its own pay, 0.53 weeks more than Bossier City.
76 of 208 other cities ask for more, 132 for less.
Sum for Bossier City: $9,900 ÷ ($55,130 ÷ 52) = 9.3 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Bossier City city), 2019–2023Bossier City against nearby Louisiana cities
Neighbors run from 0.82× to 0.88× against Bossier City's 0.88×. Closest: Shreveport, about 1 mi, at $5,740 to $12,710.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bossier City (this page) | 9.3 | — | 13 (0) | 80 |
| Shreveport roofers ≈1 mi from Bossier City |
9.9 | -7% | 30 (0) | 103 |
| Monroe roofers ≈94 mi from Bossier City |
14.1 | same | 24 (0) | 43 |
| Alexandria roofers ≈112 mi from Bossier City |
10.9 | same | 16 (0) | 21 |
| Lake Charles roofers ≈162 mi from Bossier City |
9.1 | same | 25 (0) | 39 |
| Lafayette roofers ≈187 mi from Bossier City |
8.4 | same | 30 (0) | 17 |
On the cost index Bossier City sits at 0.88×, and a Bossier City roof takes 9.3 weeks of its pay, rank 77 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Bossier City
Share of median home value
In Bossier City a typical re-roof takes 5.1% of the $192,300 median home value. 87 cities carry a heavier ratio and 121 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Bossier City city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
51.4% of Bossier City homes predate 1980. The median Bossier City home was built in 1979, so a roof never replaced there is 47 years old. Oldest-first, Bossier City stands #101 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Bossier City city), 2019–2023Repair or replace in Bossier City
The median Bossier City 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. 51.4% of Bossier City homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Bossier City | $550 | 0.52 |
| Larger repair in Bossier City | $2,650 | 2.5 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Bossier City | $4,950 | 4.7 |
| One year of roof life in Bossier City | $360 | 0.34 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Bossier City: 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.
The Bossier City roofing market
With a 2020 census population of 62,701, Bossier City anchors the eastern half of the Shreveport-Bossier metro. Barksdale Air Force Base is the city's historically dominant economic engine, sustaining steady military and civilian employment and a durable housing stock tied to PCS cycles. Tourism and casino-resort construction have added commercial roofing demand. The combination of base housing turnover, casino-hotel inventory, and older residential stock from the oil-boom era keeps the local roofing contractor market consistently active.
Roofing companies in Bossier City's county
- 8roofing establishments with paid employees
- 59paid roofing employees
- 62.5%have fewer than 5 employees
- 7.4employees per firm on average
62.5% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 1 points below the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 7.4 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 13 roofing contractors listed in Bossier City. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Bossier City metro earns a median $48,540 a year, $220 below the $48,760 statewide median. 60 of 141 metros pay more than the Bossier City area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Bossier City
- Shreveport-Bossier City
- Bossier Lakes
- Downtown Bossier
- Pine Crest
- Eastside
ZIP codes: 71112, 71110, 71113, 71111, 71114.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.