Roof Replacement Cost in Huntsville, Alabama (2026)
Huntsville homeowners pay $6,160 to $13,640 to put asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft house, roughly 4.5 to 10.0 weeks of the $70,778 a year the median Huntsville household takes in. Huntsville gets 59.6 yearly precipitation, 13th highest of 209. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: Plan on about $9,900 for asphalt shingles in Huntsville, or 7.3 weeks of the median household's $70,778. Metal roofs in Huntsville cost $14,960 to $35,200; asphalt ranges from $6,160 to $13,640.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Huntsville installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Huntsville roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Huntsville home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Huntsville or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Huntsville roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Huntsville house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Huntsville gets.
Price your own roof in Huntsville
Huntsville prices sit 12% under the national base. A typical Huntsville roof is 7.3 weeks of local pay, 176th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Huntsville
- 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 |
| Huntsville cost index | Fixed for Huntsville, not recalculated from wages | 0.88× |
| Huntsville low | $7,000 × Huntsville index 0.88 | $6,160, 4.5 weeks of Huntsville pay |
| Huntsville high | $15,500 × Huntsville index 0.88 | $13,640, 10.0 weeks of Huntsville pay |
| Huntsville typical | Midpoint of the Huntsville low and high, rounded to $50 | $9,900 |
- Where Huntsville 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.
Prices compiled June 2026. 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 Huntsville
A typical asphalt roof in Huntsville costs $9,900, which is 7.3 weeks of local pay and puts Huntsville 176th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Huntsville | 6.0 | $8,150 | 3.1% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Huntsville | 7.9 | $10,800 | 4.1% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Huntsville | 15.2 | $20,700 | 7.9% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Huntsville | 20.7 | $28,150 | 10.7% |
| Concrete Tile in Huntsville | 13.6 | $18,500 | 7.0% |
| TPO / EPDM in Huntsville* | 3.9 | $5,300 | 2.0% |
* 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 Huntsville 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 Huntsville. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Storms behind Huntsville roof bills
Public NOAA records for Huntsville's county.
- 32days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2.75 inlargest hailstone reported
- 96days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 146 hail reports for Huntsville's county since 2014. May is the busiest month with 35 of them, 24% of the total.
Busiest three: May 35, June 32, April 31.
No hail was reported in 3 of the 12 months (January to November, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was March 30, 2022, with $7,537,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $9,392,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 26 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF3.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Madison County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 19 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 17 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 39 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 33 |
| 2026* | 7 |
138 recorded hail events across 9 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data, about 14.6 per represented full year. 2023 had the most events among represented full years: 39.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Huntsville storm history · Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Huntsville's $6,160–$13,640 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Huntsville pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.37 weeks in Huntsville | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.73 weeks in Huntsville | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 1.8 weeks in Huntsville | $2,500 |
Huntsville against nearby Alabama cities
Neighbors run from 0.83× to 0.83× against Huntsville's 0.88×. Closest: Decatur, about 24 mi, at $5,810 to $12,865.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huntsville (this page) | 7.3 | — | 30 (0) | 138 |
| Decatur roofers ≈24 mi from Huntsville |
8.1 | -6% | 27 (0) | 41 |
| Gadsden roofers ≈60 mi from Huntsville |
12.6 | -6% | 22 (0) | 29 |
| Hoover roofers ≈92 mi from Huntsville |
4.5 | -6% | 25 (0) | 47 |
| Tuscaloosa roofers ≈119 mi from Huntsville |
10.0 | -6% | 27 (0) | 20 |
| Auburn roofers ≈159 mi from Huntsville |
8.7 | -6% | 26 (0) | 24 |
| Montgomery roofers ≈164 mi from Huntsville |
8.7 | -6% | 29 (0) | 16 |
On the cost index Huntsville sits at 0.88×, and a Huntsville roof takes 7.3 weeks of its pay, rank 176 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Huntsville
Share of median home value
In Huntsville a typical re-roof takes 3.8% of the $263,100 median home value. 152 cities carry a heavier ratio and 56 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Huntsville city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
44.2% of Huntsville homes predate 1980. The median Huntsville home was built in 1984, so a roof never replaced there is 42 years old. Oldest-first, Huntsville stands #134 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Huntsville city), 2019–2023The Huntsville roofing market
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Redstone Arsenal have attracted a highly educated, high-income population to Huntsville, creating above-average demand for premium roofing products and lifetime-warranty shingles. The city's growth rate is among the fastest in Alabama, providing new-construction roofing demand that has attracted contractors from surrounding states.
Roofing companies in Huntsville's county
- 27roofing establishments with paid employees
- 98paid roofing employees
- 77.8%have fewer than 5 employees
- 3.6employees per firm on average
77.8% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 14 points above the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 3.6 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 30 roofing contractors listed in Huntsville. See them
Repair or replace in Huntsville
The median Huntsville home was built in 1984, so an original roof would be 42 years old, past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for. Here a repair mostly buys time. 44.2% of Huntsville homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Huntsville | $550 | 0.40 |
| Larger repair in Huntsville | $2,650 | 1.9 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Huntsville | $4,950 | 3.6 |
| One year of roof life in Huntsville | $360 | 0.26 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Huntsville: 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.
Huntsville roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Huntsville household earns $70,778 a year, or $1,361 a week. A Huntsville asphalt re-roof, typically $9,900, takes 7.3 weeks of that.
Decatur ($9,350 typical, 24 miles away) takes 8.1 weeks of its own pay, 0.85 weeks more than Huntsville.
175 of 208 other cities ask for more, 33 for less.
Sum for Huntsville: $9,900 ÷ ($70,778 ÷ 52) = 7.3 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Huntsville city), 2019–2023Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Huntsville
- Five Points
- Jones Valley
- South Huntsville
ZIP codes: 35801, 35802, 35803, 35805, 35810.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.