Roof Replacement Cost in Fort Smith, Arkansas (2026)
Putting asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft Fort Smith home costs $5,600 to $12,400, which a Fort Smith household on $52,692 a year earns back in 5.5 to 12.2 weeks. Fort Smith gets 13 days with an inch of rain, 13th highest of 209. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: Fort Smith asphalt re-roofs land at $9,000 for the typical job (8.9 weeks of local pay at $52,692 a year). Expect $5,600 to $12,400 for asphalt and $13,600 to $32,000 for metal in Fort Smith.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Fort Smith installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Fort Smith roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Fort Smith home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Fort Smith or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Fort Smith roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Fort Smith house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Fort Smith gets.
Price your own roof in Fort Smith
Fort Smith prices sit 20% under the national base. A typical Fort Smith roof is 8.9 weeks of local pay, 101st heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Fort Smith
- 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 |
| Fort Smith cost index | Fixed for Fort Smith, not recalculated from wages | 0.80× |
| Fort Smith low | $7,000 × Fort Smith index 0.80 | $5,600, 5.5 weeks of Fort Smith pay |
| Fort Smith high | $15,500 × Fort Smith index 0.80 | $12,400, 12.2 weeks of Fort Smith pay |
| Fort Smith typical | Midpoint of the Fort Smith low and high, rounded to $50 | $9,000 |
- Where Fort Smith 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 Fort Smith. 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 Fort Smith
A typical asphalt roof in Fort Smith costs $9,000, which is 8.9 weeks of local pay and puts Fort Smith 101st of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Fort Smith | 7.3 | $7,400 | 4.4% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Fort Smith | 9.7 | $9,800 | 5.8% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Fort Smith | 18.6 | $18,800 | 11.2% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Fort Smith | 25.3 | $25,600 | 15.2% |
| Concrete Tile in Fort Smith | 16.6 | $16,800 | 10.0% |
| TPO / EPDM in Fort Smith* | 4.7 | $4,800 | 2.9% |
* 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 Fort Smith 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 Fort Smith. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Storms behind Fort Smith roof bills
Public NOAA records for Fort Smith's county.
- 38days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2.5 inlargest hailstone reported
- 85days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 91 hail reports for Fort Smith's county since 2014. April is the busiest month with 31 of them, 34% of the total.
Busiest three: April 31, May 30, March 12.
No hail was reported in 4 of the 12 months (January to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was May 19, 2025, with $1,500,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $6,150,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 17 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF1.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Sebastian County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 7 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2020 | 9 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 15 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 4 |
| 2025 | 11 |
| 2026* | 14 |
74 recorded hail events across 9 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data, about 6.7 per represented full year. 2022 had the most events among represented full years: 15.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Fort Smith's $5,600–$12,400 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Fort Smith pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.49 weeks in Fort Smith | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.99 weeks in Fort Smith | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.5 weeks in Fort Smith | $2,500 |
Repair or replace in Fort Smith
Fort Smith homes sit 50 years from the median build year of 1976. An original roof that old is past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for, so in Fort Smith a repair mostly buys time. 57.5% of Fort Smith homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Fort Smith | $500 | 0.49 |
| Larger repair in Fort Smith | $2,400 | 2.4 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Fort Smith | $4,500 | 4.4 |
| One year of roof life in Fort Smith | $327 | 0.32 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Fort Smith: 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.
Fort Smith against nearby Arkansas cities
Neighbors run from 0.82× to 0.86× against Fort Smith's 0.80×. Closest: Fayetteville, about 50 mi, at $6,020 to $13,330.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Smith (this page) | 8.9 | — | 26 (19) | 74 |
| Fayetteville roofers ≈50 mi from Fort Smith |
8.5 | +7% | 25 (6) | 123 |
| Springdale roofers ≈57 mi from Fort Smith |
7.2 | +2% | 28 (12) | 123 |
| Rogers roofers ≈67 mi from Fort Smith |
5.8 | +2% | 25 (10) | 169 |
| Bentonville roofers ≈69 mi from Fort Smith |
4.4 | +2% | 15 (9) | 169 |
| Conway roofers ≈112 mi from Fort Smith |
8.2 | +2% | 27 (9) | 52 |
| Little Rock roofers ≈127 mi from Fort Smith |
8.1 | +5% | 27 (14) | 75 |
On the cost index Fort Smith sits at 0.80×, and a Fort Smith roof takes 8.9 weeks of its pay, rank 101 of 209.
Fort Smith roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Fort Smith household earns $52,692 a year, or $1,013 a week. A Fort Smith asphalt re-roof, typically $9,000, takes 8.9 weeks of that.
Fayetteville ($9,700 typical, 50 miles away) takes 8.5 weeks of its own pay, 0.34 weeks fewer than Fort Smith.
100 of 208 other cities ask for more, 108 for less.
Sum for Fort Smith: $9,000 ÷ ($52,692 ÷ 52) = 8.9 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Fort Smith city), 2019–2023What a re-roof costs against home values in Fort Smith
Share of median home value
In Fort Smith a typical re-roof takes 5.4% of the $168,100 median home value. 76 cities carry a heavier ratio and 132 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Fort Smith city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
57.5% of Fort Smith homes predate 1980. A roof that Fort Smith homebuyers never replaced since the median build year of 1976 is 50 years old. Oldest-first, Fort Smith stands #79 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Fort Smith city), 2019–2023The Fort Smith roofing market
Fort Smith's roofing market is among the most price-sensitive in Arkansas, reflecting the region's lower median household income. Many homeowners file multiple hail claims per decade, and insurance companies have increased deductibles and added wind-hail exclusions on older policies in Sebastian County.
Roofing companies in Fort Smith's county
- 18roofing establishments with paid employees
- 206paid roofing employees
- 55.6%have fewer than 5 employees
- 11.4employees per firm on average
55.6% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 8 points below the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 11.4 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 26 roofing contractors listed in Fort Smith, 19 verified against a public registry. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Fort Smith metro earns a median $44,230 a year, $3,240 below the $47,470 statewide median. 125 of 141 metros pay more than the Fort Smith area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025License and permit in Arkansas
Fort Smith roofers: State license required.
Check a Fort Smith roofer in the Arkansas registry
19 contractors listed in Fort Smith carry a Verified badge on PickARoofer.
Permit: Fort Smith's building office. General information, not legal advice.
Source: verification methodAreas PickARoofer contractors serve in Fort Smith
- Chaffee Crossing
- Fianna Hills
- Massard Prairie
- Greenwood
- Van Buren
- Central Fort Smith
ZIP codes: 72901, 72903, 72904, 72908, 72916.
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Sebastian County fact sheet for Fort Smith homeowners
Federal disaster declarations and your state's claim deadlines for the county, from public records.
Federal disaster declarations naming Sebastian County
Sebastian County appears in 8 FEMA declarations since 2014 (4 storm, 2 flood, 2 winter, 0 fire). NOAA logs in Sebastian County 38 days of hail at 1 in or more, in 12 of 12 full years. The latest in Sebastian County was 234 days ago.
Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries · data as of declarations since 2014More for Fort Smith
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.