Roof Replacement Cost in Eau Claire, Wisconsin (2026)
Putting asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft Eau Claire home costs $6,580 to $14,570, which a Eau Claire household on $65,369 a year earns back in 5.2 to 11.6 weeks. The median Eau Claire home dates from 1974. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: Eau Claire asphalt re-roofs land at $10,600 for the typical job (8.4 weeks of local pay at $65,369 a year). Expect $6,580 to $14,570 for asphalt and $15,980 to $37,600 for metal in Eau Claire.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Eau Claire installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Eau Claire roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Eau Claire home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Eau Claire or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Eau Claire roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Eau Claire house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Eau Claire gets.
Price your own roof in Eau Claire
Eau Claire prices sit 6% under the national base. A typical Eau Claire roof is 8.4 weeks of local pay, 132nd heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Eau Claire
- 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 |
| Eau Claire cost index | Fixed for Eau Claire, not recalculated from wages | 0.94× |
| Eau Claire low | $7,000 × Eau Claire index 0.94 | $6,580, 5.2 weeks of Eau Claire pay |
| Eau Claire high | $15,500 × Eau Claire index 0.94 | $14,570, 11.6 weeks of Eau Claire pay |
| Eau Claire typical | Midpoint of the Eau Claire low and high, rounded to $50 | $10,600 |
- Where Eau Claire 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 Eau Claire. 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 Eau Claire
A typical asphalt roof in Eau Claire costs $10,600, which is 8.4 weeks of local pay and puts Eau Claire 132nd of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Eau Claire | 6.9 | $8,700 | 3.8% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Eau Claire | 9.1 | $11,500 | 5.0% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Eau Claire | 17.6 | $22,100 | 9.7% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Eau Claire | 23.9 | $30,100 | 13.2% |
| Concrete Tile in Eau Claire | 15.7 | $19,750 | 8.7% |
| TPO / EPDM in Eau Claire* | 4.5 | $5,650 | 2.5% |
* 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
Repair or replace in Eau Claire
Eau Claire homes sit 52 years from the median build year of 1974. An original roof that old is past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for, so in Eau Claire a repair mostly buys time. 60.4% of Eau Claire homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Eau Claire | $600 | 0.48 |
| Larger repair in Eau Claire | $2,800 | 2.2 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Eau Claire | $5,300 | 4.2 |
| One year of roof life in Eau Claire | $385 | 0.31 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Eau Claire: 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 weather does to a Eau Claire 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 Eau Claire. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Eau Claire against nearby Wisconsin cities
6 neighbors share 0.94×, against Eau Claire's 0.94×. Closest is La Crosse, about 71 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eau Claire (this page) | 8.4 | — | 24 (0) | 32 |
| La Crosse roofers ≈71 mi from Eau Claire |
10.2 | same | 21 (0) | 68 |
| Oshkosh roofers ≈156 mi from Eau Claire |
8.9 | same | 22 (0) | 15 |
| Appleton roofers ≈156 mi from Eau Claire |
7.1 | same | 25 (0) | 57 |
| Green Bay roofers ≈172 mi from Eau Claire |
8.8 | same | 27 (0) | 46 |
| Janesville roofers ≈191 mi from Eau Claire |
7.7 | same | 22 (0) | 63 |
| Racine roofers ≈232 mi from Eau Claire |
9.9 | same | 22 (0) | 26 |
On the cost index Eau Claire sits at 0.94×, and a Eau Claire roof takes 8.4 weeks of its pay, rank 132 of 209.
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Eau Claire's $6,580–$14,570 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Eau Claire pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.40 weeks in Eau Claire | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.80 weeks in Eau Claire | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.0 weeks in Eau Claire | $2,500 |
What a re-roof costs against home values in Eau Claire
Share of median home value
In Eau Claire a typical re-roof takes 4.6% of the $228,000 median home value. 112 cities carry a heavier ratio and 96 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Eau Claire city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
60.4% of Eau Claire homes predate 1980. A roof that Eau Claire homebuyers never replaced since the median build year of 1974 is 52 years old. Oldest-first, Eau Claire stands #67 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Eau Claire city), 2019–2023Eau Claire roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Eau Claire household earns $65,369 a year, or $1,257 a week. A Eau Claire asphalt re-roof, typically $10,600, takes 8.4 weeks of that.
La Crosse ($10,600 typical, 71 miles away) takes 10.2 weeks of its own pay, 1.8 weeks more than Eau Claire.
131 of 208 other cities ask for more, 77 for less.
Sum for Eau Claire: $10,600 ÷ ($65,369 ÷ 52) = 8.4 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Eau Claire city), 2019–2023The Eau Claire roofing market
Eau Claire's 2020 census population was 69,421. Menards, the national home-improvement chain, is headquartered here with general offices, two stores, and a flagship distribution center -- a direct economic link to the construction and roofing supply industry. National Presto Industries and Silver Spring Foods (the world's largest horseradish producer) are other major employers. The city grew 5.4 percent between 2010 and 2020, and the broader Eau Claire metro stands at roughly 161,000, supporting a solid residential replacement and new-construction roofing pipeline.
Roofing companies in Eau Claire's county
- 11roofing establishments with paid employees
- 44paid roofing employees
- 72.7%have fewer than 5 employees
- 4.0employees per firm on average
72.7% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 9 points above the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 4 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 24 roofing contractors listed in Eau Claire. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Eau Claire metro earns a median $51,380 a year, $7,990 below the $59,370 statewide median. 35 of 141 metros pay more than the Eau Claire area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025Storms behind Eau Claire roof bills
Public NOAA records for Eau Claire's county.
- 13days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 4 inlargest hailstone reported
- 23days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 40 hail reports for Eau Claire's county since 2014. June is the busiest month with 15 of them, 38% of the total.
Busiest three: June 15, August 9, May 8.
No hail was reported in 6 of the 12 months (January to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was June 10, 2016, with $105,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $499,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 7 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF1.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Eau Claire County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 2 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 4 |
| 2026* | 6 |
32 recorded hail events across 7 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data. 2018 had the most events among represented full years: 6.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Hail risk lookup
Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Eau Claire
- Downtown Eau Claire
- Riverside
- Lincoln Park
- University Heights
- Eastside
ZIP codes: 54701, 54702, 54703, 54704, 54705.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.