Roof Replacement Cost in Houston, Texas (2026)
Houston homeowners pay $6,510 to $14,415 to put asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft house, roughly 5.4 to 11.9 weeks of the $62,894 a year the median Houston household takes in. Houston gets 103 days at 90f or hotter, 17th highest of 209. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: The usual asphalt re-roof in Houston is $10,450, which takes 8.6 weeks of a $62,894 median household income. Metal in Houston: $15,810 to $37,200. Asphalt in Houston: $6,510 to $14,415.
Got a quote? See where it falls in Houston
Compares your price per square foot with the Houston installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Houston roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Houston home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Houston or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Houston roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Houston house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Houston gets.
Price your own roof in Houston
Houston prices sit 7% under the national base. A typical Houston roof is 8.6 weeks of local pay, 118th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Houston
- 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 |
| Houston cost index | Fixed for Houston, not recalculated from wages | 0.93× |
| Houston low | $7,000 × Houston index 0.93 | $6,510, 5.4 weeks of Houston pay |
| Houston high | $15,500 × Houston index 0.93 | $14,415, 11.9 weeks of Houston pay |
| Houston typical | Midpoint of the Houston low and high, rounded to $50 | $10,450 |
- Where Houston 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 Houston. 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 Houston
A typical asphalt roof in Houston costs $10,450, which is 8.6 weeks of local pay and puts Houston 118th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Houston | 7.1 | $8,600 | 3.4% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Houston | 9.4 | $11,400 | 4.5% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Houston | 18.1 | $21,850 | 8.6% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Houston | 24.6 | $29,750 | 11.7% |
| Concrete Tile in Houston | 16.2 | $19,550 | 7.7% |
| TPO / EPDM in Houston* | 4.6 | $5,600 | 2.2% |
* 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 Houston 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 Houston. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Storms behind Houston roof bills
Public NOAA records for Houston's county.
- 46days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2.75 inlargest hailstone reported
- 83days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 169 hail reports for Harris County since 2014. April is the busiest month with 49 of them, 29% of the total.
Busiest three: April 49, May 44, March 28.
No hail was reported in 2 of the 12 months (September to November, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was May 16, 2024, with $72,550,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $100,158,400. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 39 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF3.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Harris County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 7 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 17 |
| 2020 | 23 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2023 | 28 |
| 2024 | 28 |
| 2025 | 8 |
| 2026* | 7 |
133 recorded hail events across 8 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data. 2023 had the most events among represented full years: 28.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Houston storm history · Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Houston's $6,510–$14,415 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Houston pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.41 weeks in Houston | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.83 weeks in Houston | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.1 weeks in Houston | $2,500 |
Houston against nearby Texas cities
6 neighbors share 0.93×, against Houston's 0.93×. Closest is Beaumont, about 80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston (this page) | 8.6 | — | 25 (19) | 133 |
| Beaumont roofers ≈80 mi from Houston |
9.4 | same | 27 (0) | 27 |
| College Station roofers ≈83 mi from Houston |
10.5 | same | 16 (0) | 81 |
| Bryan roofers ≈86 mi from Houston |
9.6 | same | 28 (4) | 81 |
| Victoria roofers ≈117 mi from Houston |
8.0 | same | 29 (0) | 12 |
| Temple roofers ≈149 mi from Houston |
8.4 | same | 21 (0) | 116 |
| Waco roofers ≈162 mi from Houston |
10.6 | same | 26 (1) | 123 |
On the cost index Houston sits at 0.93×, and a Houston roof takes 8.6 weeks of its pay, rank 118 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Houston
Share of median home value
In Houston a typical re-roof takes 4.1% of the $253,400 median home value. 137 cities carry a heavier ratio and 71 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Houston city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
48.3% of Houston homes predate 1980. The median Houston home was built in 1981, so a roof never replaced there is 45 years old. Oldest-first, Houston stands #117 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Houston city), 2019–2023Houston roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Houston household earns $62,894 a year, or $1,210 a week. A Houston asphalt re-roof, typically $10,450, takes 8.6 weeks of that.
Beaumont ($10,450 typical, 80 miles away) takes 9.4 weeks of its own pay, 0.81 weeks more than Houston.
117 of 208 other cities ask for more, 91 for less.
Sum for Houston: $10,450 ÷ ($62,894 ÷ 52) = 8.6 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Houston city), 2019–2023Repair or replace in Houston
The median Houston home was built in 1981, so an original roof would be 45 years old, past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for. Here a repair mostly buys time. 48.3% of Houston homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Houston | $600 | 0.50 |
| Larger repair in Houston | $2,800 | 2.3 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Houston | $5,200 | 4.3 |
| One year of roof life in Houston | $380 | 0.31 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Houston: 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 Houston roofing market
Texas has no statewide roofing license — RCAT registration is voluntary — so Houston homeowners should verify liability insurance, references, and any voluntary RCAT credential themselves. Windstorm insurance considerations matter here: many Houston-area policies carry separate wind-and-hail deductibles, and hurricane-season demand spikes can stretch contractor scheduling for weeks after a landfall.
Roofing companies in Houston's county
- 301roofing establishments with paid employees
- 2,649paid roofing employees
- 66.1%have fewer than 5 employees
- 8.8employees per firm on average
66.1% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 2 points above the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 8.8 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 25 roofing contractors listed in Houston, 19 verified against a public registry. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Houston metro earns a median $45,500 a year, $530 below the $46,030 statewide median. 119 of 141 metros pay more than the Houston area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025License and permit in Texas
Houston roofers: No state roofing license — voluntary RCAT program.
Check a Houston roofer in the Texas registry
19 contractors listed in Houston carry a Verified badge on PickARoofer.
Permit: Houston's building office or Harris County. General information, not legal advice.
Source: verification methodAreas PickARoofer contractors serve in Houston
ZIP codes in Harris County area: 77002, 77003, 77004, 77005, 77006, 77007, 77008, 77009.
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Harris County fact sheet for Houston homeowners
Federal disaster declarations and your state's claim deadlines for the county, from public records.
Federal disaster declarations naming Harris County
Harris County appears in 12 FEMA declarations since 2014 (6 storm, 4 flood, 2 winter, 0 fire). NOAA logs in Harris County 46 days of hail at 1 in or more, in 11 of 12 full years. The latest in Harris County was 798 days ago.
Source: OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries · data as of declarations since 2014More for Houston
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.