Roof Replacement Cost in Wichita, Kansas (2026)
Wichita homeowners pay $6,230 to $13,795 to put asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft house, roughly 5.1 to 11.4 weeks of the $63,072 a year the median Wichita household takes in. NOAA counts 87 days of 1-inch hail in Wichita's county. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: The usual asphalt re-roof in Wichita is $10,000, which takes 8.2 weeks of a $63,072 median household income. Metal in Wichita: $15,130 to $35,600. Asphalt in Wichita: $6,230 to $13,795.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Wichita installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Wichita roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Wichita home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Wichita or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Wichita roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Wichita house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Wichita gets.
Price your own roof in Wichita
Wichita prices sit 11% under the national base. A typical Wichita roof is 8.2 weeks of local pay, 137th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Wichita
- 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 |
| Wichita cost index | Fixed for Wichita, not recalculated from wages | 0.89× |
| Wichita low | $7,000 × Wichita index 0.89 | $6,230, 5.1 weeks of Wichita pay |
| Wichita high | $15,500 × Wichita index 0.89 | $13,795, 11.4 weeks of Wichita pay |
| Wichita typical | Midpoint of the Wichita low and high, rounded to $50 | $10,000 |
- Where Wichita 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 Wichita. 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 Wichita
A typical asphalt roof in Wichita costs $10,000, which is 8.2 weeks of local pay and puts Wichita 137th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Wichita | 6.8 | $8,250 | 4.6% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Wichita | 9.0 | $10,900 | 6.1% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Wichita | 17.2 | $20,900 | 11.6% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Wichita | 23.5 | $28,500 | 15.9% |
| Concrete Tile in Wichita | 15.4 | $18,700 | 10.4% |
| TPO / EPDM in Wichita* | 4.4 | $5,350 | 3.0% |
* 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
Storms behind Wichita roof bills
Public NOAA records for Wichita's county.
- 87days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2.75 inlargest hailstone reported
- 102days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 382 hail reports for Wichita's county since 2014. May is the busiest month with 111 of them, 29% of the total.
Busiest three: May 111, April 95, June 95.
No hail was reported in 3 of the 12 months (January to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was April 29, 2022, with $4,500,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $7,260,800. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 6 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF3.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Sedgwick County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 16 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 37 |
| 2020 | 15 |
| 2021 | 12 |
| 2022 | 24 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 16 |
| 2025 | 40 |
| 2026* | 40 |
228 recorded hail events across 9 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data, about 20.9 per represented full year. 2025 had the most events among represented full years: 40.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Wichita storm history · Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Wichita's $6,230–$13,795 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Wichita pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.41 weeks in Wichita | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.82 weeks in Wichita | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.1 weeks in Wichita | $2,500 |
What weather does to a Wichita 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 Wichita. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Repair or replace in Wichita
The median Wichita home was built in 1974, so an original roof would be 52 years old, past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for. Here a repair mostly buys time. 58.3% of Wichita homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Wichita | $600 | 0.49 |
| Larger repair in Wichita | $2,650 | 2.2 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Wichita | $5,000 | 4.1 |
| One year of roof life in Wichita | $364 | 0.30 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Wichita: 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.
Wichita against nearby Kansas cities
5 neighbors share 0.88×, against Wichita's 0.89×. Closest is Hutchinson, about 41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita (this page) | 8.2 | — | 19 (0) | 228 |
| Hutchinson roofers ≈41 mi from Wichita |
8.8 | -1% | 18 (0) | 85 |
| Salina roofers ≈81 mi from Wichita |
8.5 | -1% | 20 (0) | 97 |
| Manhattan roofers ≈111 mi from Wichita |
8.8 | -1% | 25 (0) | 64 |
| Topeka roofers ≈130 mi from Wichita |
9.2 | -1% | 23 (0) | 95 |
| Lawrence roofers ≈145 mi from Wichita |
8.2 | -1% | 25 (0) | 38 |
On the cost index Wichita sits at 0.89×, and a Wichita roof takes 8.2 weeks of its pay, rank 137 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Wichita
Share of median home value
In Wichita a typical re-roof takes 5.6% of the $179,500 median home value. 66 cities carry a heavier ratio and 142 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Wichita city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
58.3% of Wichita homes predate 1980. The median Wichita home was built in 1974, so a roof never replaced there is 52 years old. Oldest-first, Wichita stands #67 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Wichita city), 2019–2023The Wichita roofing market
Wichita's aviation manufacturing economy (Spirit AeroSystems, Cessna, Beechcraft) provides strong middle-class employment that supports active homeownership and regular roofing investment. Insurer incentives and contractor education campaigns through the Kansas Association of Roofing Contractors have made impact-resistant Class 4 shingle installations unusually common here compared to most US markets.
Roofing companies in Wichita's county
- 50roofing establishments with paid employees
- 610paid roofing employees
- 72%have fewer than 5 employees
- 12.2employees per firm on average
72% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 8 points above the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 12.2 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 19 roofing contractors listed in Wichita. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Wichita metro earns a median $45,760 a year, $1,430 below the $47,190 statewide median. 115 of 141 metros pay more than the Wichita area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025Wichita roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Wichita household earns $63,072 a year, or $1,213 a week. A Wichita asphalt re-roof, typically $10,000, takes 8.2 weeks of that.
Hutchinson ($9,900 typical, 41 miles away) takes 8.8 weeks of its own pay, 0.51 weeks more than Wichita.
136 of 208 other cities ask for more, 72 for less.
Sum for Wichita: $10,000 ÷ ($63,072 ÷ 52) = 8.2 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Wichita city), 2019–2023License and permit in Kansas
Wichita roofers: No statewide roofing license.
Permit: Wichita's building office. General information, not legal advice.
Source: verification methodAreas PickARoofer contractors serve in Wichita
- Riverside
- College Hill
- Eastborough
- Delano
- Westlink
- Maize South
ZIP codes: 67202, 67203, 67206, 67208, 67212.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.