Roof Replacement Cost in Tupelo, Mississippi (2026)
Quotes for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof in Tupelo usually land between $5,530 to $12,245. On Tupelo's median household income of $66,314 a year that works out to 4.3 to 9.6 weeks of pay. Tupelo gets 13.4 days with an inch of rain, 11th highest of 209. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: A typical Tupelo asphalt roof costs $8,900. That is 7.0 weeks of pay for a household earning $66,314 a year. Metal in Tupelo runs $13,430 to $31,600, against $5,530 to $12,245 for asphalt.
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What would a Tupelo roof cost per month?
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How much life is left in my Tupelo roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Tupelo house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Tupelo gets.
Price your own roof in Tupelo
Tupelo prices sit 21% under the national base. A typical Tupelo roof is 7.0 weeks of local pay, 185th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Tupelo
- 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 |
| Tupelo cost index | Fixed for Tupelo, not recalculated from wages | 0.79× |
| Tupelo low | $7,000 × Tupelo index 0.79 | $5,530, 4.3 weeks of Tupelo pay |
| Tupelo high | $15,500 × Tupelo index 0.79 | $12,245, 9.6 weeks of Tupelo pay |
| Tupelo typical | Midpoint of the Tupelo low and high, rounded to $50 | $8,900 |
- Where Tupelo 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 Tupelo
A typical asphalt roof in Tupelo costs $8,900, which is 7.0 weeks of local pay and puts Tupelo 185th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Tupelo | 5.7 | $7,300 | 3.6% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Tupelo | 7.6 | $9,700 | 4.8% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Tupelo | 14.5 | $18,550 | 9.2% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Tupelo | 19.8 | $25,300 | 12.6% |
| Concrete Tile in Tupelo | 13.0 | $16,600 | 8.2% |
| TPO / EPDM in Tupelo* | 3.7 | $4,750 | 2.4% |
* 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 Tupelo 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 Tupelo. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Storms behind Tupelo roof bills
Public NOAA records for Tupelo's county.
- 26days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2.5 inlargest hailstone reported
- 60days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 53 hail reports for Tupelo's county since 2014. March is the busiest month with 14 of them, 26% of the total.
Busiest three: March 14, May 9, June 9.
No hail was reported in 3 of the 12 months (July to September, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was April 1, 2023, with $105,000,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $127,955,500. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 19 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF3.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 1 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 6 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 9 |
| 2026* | 4 |
40 recorded hail events across 9 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data, about 4 per represented full year. 2025 had the most events among represented full years: 9.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Tupelo storm history · Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Tupelo's $5,530–$12,245 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Tupelo pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.39 weeks in Tupelo | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.78 weeks in Tupelo | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.0 weeks in Tupelo | $2,500 |
Tupelo against nearby Mississippi cities
Neighbors run from 0.78× to 0.83× against Tupelo's 0.79×. Closest: Southaven, about 90 mi, at $5,530 to $12,245.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tupelo (this page) | 7.0 | — | 21 (7) | 40 |
| Southaven roofers ≈90 mi from Tupelo |
6.1 | same | 28 (8) | 37 |
| Meridian roofers ≈130 mi from Tupelo |
13.4 | same | 25 (4) | 22 |
| Jackson roofers ≈159 mi from Tupelo |
10.6 | -1% | 27 (6) | 34 |
| Hattiesburg roofers ≈205 mi from Tupelo |
10.5 | same | 26 (8) | 18 |
| Biloxi roofers ≈267 mi from Tupelo |
8.7 | +5% | 28 (4) | 23 |
| Gulfport roofers ≈269 mi from Tupelo |
10.1 | same | 17 (5) | 23 |
On the cost index Tupelo sits at 0.79×, and a Tupelo roof takes 7.0 weeks of its pay, rank 185 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Tupelo
Share of median home value
In Tupelo a typical re-roof takes 4.4% of the $201,300 median home value. 121 cities carry a heavier ratio and 87 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Tupelo city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
47.2% of Tupelo homes predate 1980. The median Tupelo home was built in 1982, so a roof never replaced there is 44 years old. Oldest-first, Tupelo stands #124 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Tupelo city), 2019–2023Repair or replace in Tupelo
The median Tupelo home was built in 1982, so an original roof would be 44 years old, past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for. Here a repair mostly buys time. 47.2% of Tupelo homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Tupelo | $500 | 0.39 |
| Larger repair in Tupelo | $2,350 | 1.8 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Tupelo | $4,450 | 3.5 |
| One year of roof life in Tupelo | $324 | 0.25 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Tupelo: 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 Tupelo roofing market
Tupelo's 2020 census population was 37,923. The city anchors the Lee County economy with North Mississippi Medical Center, one of the largest rural medical centers in the country, serving as the dominant employer. Renasant Bank and Cadence Bank are headquartered here, signaling a strong commercial base, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi is located nearby in Blue Springs. Repeated tornado events -- 1936, 2008, 2014, 2021 -- have created cyclical insurance-driven roofing replacement demand that sustains a robust local contractor market.
Roofing companies in Tupelo's county
- 6roofing establishments with paid employees
- 28paid roofing employees
- 66.7%have fewer than 5 employees
- 4.7employees per firm on average
66.7% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 3 points above the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 4.7 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 21 roofing contractors listed in Tupelo, 7 verified against a public registry. See them
License and permit in Mississippi
Tupelo roofers: State roofing license required.
Check a Tupelo roofer in the Mississippi registry
7 contractors listed in Tupelo carry a Verified badge on PickARoofer.
Permit: Tupelo's building office. General information, not legal advice.
Source: verification methodTupelo roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Tupelo household earns $66,314 a year, or $1,275 a week. A Tupelo asphalt re-roof, typically $8,900, takes 7.0 weeks of that.
Southaven ($8,900 typical, 90 miles away) takes 6.1 weeks of its own pay, 0.90 weeks fewer than Tupelo.
184 of 208 other cities ask for more, 24 for less.
Sum for Tupelo: $8,900 ÷ ($66,314 ÷ 52) = 7.0 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Tupelo city), 2019–2023Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Tupelo
- Downtown Tupelo
- Memorial Park
- Tupelo Hills
- East Tupelo
- West Tupelo
ZIP codes: 38801, 38804, 38802, 38803, 38824.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.