Roofing Statistics & Benchmarks
Sourced roofing market data, cost benchmarks, and industry statistics, every figure cited to its origin.
Roof Age and Housing Stock Statistics: What the Data Shows When No National Roof-Age Count Exists
No public data source publishes a national count of roofs that have exceeded their expected lifespan. The closest available proxy is the age of the housing stock underneath those roofs: the median US home reached 44 years old in 2026, described as the oldest ever recorded, with Northeast homes running even older at a 60-year median, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies research reported by Long Home. A second source citing the same underlying JCHS research puts the figure at 42 years, a discrepancy worth flagging rather than silently resolving. Age alone does not equal roof condition. A separate Verisk aerial-imagery analysis found 38% of US homes show moderate to poor roof condition, carrying roughly 60% higher loss costs, a condition-based measurement that complements, but does not replace, the housing-age data above. And within the oldest housing segment, pre-1960 homes, 29% of low-income homeowners live in one of these homes, according to an American Housing Survey analysis by JCHS.
Read more →Homeowners Insurance Roof-Age Underwriting Statistics: How Florida Restricts Age-Based Denials and Nonrenewals
Florida is the clearest example of roof-age-specific insurance underwriting rules in the country. Under Senate Bill 76, codified at Florida Statute Section 627.7011, insurers cannot deny or nonrenew a homeowners policy solely because the roof is less than 15 years old. Once a roof passes that 15-year mark, the homeowner gains the right to submit a roof inspection showing at least 5 years of remaining useful life, and if the insurer accepts that report, coverage must continue regardless of the roof’s calendar age. House Bill 1611, effective July 2024, expanded who can perform that qualifying inspection to include licensed roofing contractors, a wider pool than before. A single-source figure worth flagging separately: Florida has seen a reported 280% increase in homeowner insurance nonrenewals since 2018, with roof age commonly cited as a factor, though that specific percentage appears on only one of the two sources this page draws from.
Read more →Homeowner Roofing Contractor Complaint and BBB Dispute Statistics
No source publishes a national, roofing-contractor-specific complaint count. What is sourced: Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection logged 285 roofing-related complaints in 2024, 247 in 2023, and 91 in the first half of 2025, covering issues from poor installations to door-to-door solicitation fraud following a storm. That is real, government data, but it is state-level only and should not be extrapolated into a national rate. Separately, the BBB’s 2024 Scam Tracker Risk Report ranks home improvement scams as the 5th riskiest category for consumers, with a median loss of $1,800 per incident, according to a BBB regional director quoted in two independent local news outlets. Roofing is one named example inside that broader home-improvement category, not its own separately tracked line item.
Read more →Roofing Permit Volume Statistics: What Building Permit Data Says About Regional Demand
Shovels analyzed 4.6 million roofing permits filed between 2015 and 2025 across more than 1,800 jurisdictions nationwide, the most detailed public regional-demand dataset available for roofing specifically. Florida led with 1,334,878 permits (29.1% of the national total), followed by California (709,666, 15.4%), Colorado (575,073, 12.5%), and Texas (357,624, 7.8%); Florida, California, and Colorado together account for roughly 57% of national roofing permit volume. Normalized per 1,000 households in 2025, Florida’s 11.99 permits is described as six times the national median, with Colorado close behind at 10.18, driven by hail exposure. The single national peak year was 2023, at 584,551 roofing permits; Colorado’s 2015 hail season alone generated roughly 198,000 permits, a four-fold spike above baseline. The US Census Bureau’s own Building Permits Survey, by contrast, tracks new residential construction nationally but does not capture re-roofing or repair permits at all, which is exactly the gap Shovels' trade-level dataset fills.
Read more →Extreme Weather Frequency Trend Statistics: Is Storm Activity Increasing Year Over Year
Billion-dollar weather disasters in the US climbed from about 3 events a year in the 1980s to roughly 20 events a year between 2016 and 2025, nearly a seven-fold increase, according to Climate Central, which took over the tracking methodology after NOAA discontinued its own database in 2025. The three most recent years are the three highest on record: 28 events in 2023, 27 in 2024, and 23 in 2025. Severe storms, the category most relevant to roofing and hail damage, set a new record of 21 billion-dollar events in 2025 alone, and the average gap between billion-dollar disasters has shrunk from 82 days in the 1980s to just 10 days in 2025.
Read more →Cool Roof and Reflective Roofing Adoption Statistics
The global market for cool and reflective roof coatings, a paint-based product applied to an existing roof to raise its solar reflectance, was valued at $4.9 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $9.4 billion by 2034, a 6.9% compound annual growth rate. The US slice of that market was $1.22 billion in 2024, growing at a 6.6% annual rate through 2034. That figure covers coatings specifically, not the broader category of reflective roofing products such as single-ply membranes, reflective shingles, or reflective metal roofing, and no verified data on state energy-code adoption mandates, such as California’s Title 24, could be confirmed for this page.
Read more →Residential Metal Roofing Market Share Statistics: How Fast Home Metal Roofing Is Growing
The US metal roofing market was valued at $5.2 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $8.0 billion by 2035, a 3.99% compound annual growth rate over that period, according to Market Research Future. The residential segment is the largest piece of that market, valued at $2.08 billion to $3.2 billion in 2024, ahead of both the commercial and industrial segments. That 3.99% growth rate applies to the overall metal roofing market, not a residential-only rate, since no segment-specific growth figure is published. A separate figure covers only the commercial steel roofing segment, from a different research firm, and should not be confused with the residential numbers here.
Read more →Homeowner Roof-Replacement Spending by Household Income Bracket Statistics
Homeowners in pre-1960 homes in the highest income quintile spent an average of $12,700 on home improvements and repairs in 2023, compared with $3,400 for those in the lowest income quintile, roughly 3.7 times more, according to 2023 American Housing Survey data analyzed by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. Pre-1960 homes overall averaged $6,000 in improvement spending that year, compared with $4,500 for homes built in 2010 or later. This data covers general home-improvement and repair spending, the category the American Housing Survey tracks, rather than a roofing-only expenditure line, and the income-quintile figure is scoped specifically to the pre-1960 home subgroup, not all US homes. For comparison, the average residential roof replacement alone cost $17,631 in 2025, more than the entire average pre-1960-home improvement budget of a lowest-quintile homeowner.
Read more →Class 4 Impact-Resistant Shingle Insurance Discount Statistics
Texas was the first state, in 1998, to require insurers to offer a discount for impact-resistant roofing, and reported discount ranges are commonly cited at 5% to 28% depending on county and insurer, with 20% to 35% off the dwelling-coverage premium portion frequently mentioned. Oklahoma discounts are commonly cited at 5% to 20%, with 10% to 20% cited as the typical range from the state’s top insurers. Both figures come from roofing-contractor marketing pages describing state insurance rules rather than a direct state insurance-department filing, so the mandated-offer laws themselves, not the exact percentages, are the more solidly corroborated fact here. To earn a Class 4 rating at all, a shingle must pass UL 2218 testing, a 2-inch steel ball dropped from 20 feet with no cracking allowed. No source for an actual nationwide Class 4 shingle adoption rate, what share of US roofs or new installations actually use one, was found, and none is estimated here.
Read more →Homeowners Insurance Non-Renewal and Market-Exit Statistics (2026)
Florida’s homeowners insurance non-renewal rate has climbed to 3.35% of in-force policies, according to a Weiss Ratings analysis of state insurance filings, after already rising 280% between 2018 and 2023 to reach 2.99% that year. California’s non-renewal rate reached 3.18% of policies, the second-highest in the nation, roughly 3.9 times its own 2018 rate of 0.82%. Both states are part of a pattern serious enough that the National Association of Insurance Commissioners ordered a nationwide data call in March 2026, requiring insurers writing at least $50,000 in relevant premium to report ZIP-code-level cancellation and non-renewal data covering 2018 through 2025 by June 15, 2026.
Read more →Roofing Contractor Business Count and Formation Statistics
There is no publicly available failure rate or startup rate specific to roofing contractors. What is sourced is the net business count: IBISWorld counted 108,598 roofing contractor businesses in the US in 2026, up 2.6% year over year, inside a market valued at $92.5 billion and growing at a 5.0% compound annual rate since 2021. That net figure does not separate how many companies formed from how many closed, only that the total kept growing. A workforce of roughly 156,800 roofers, with 6% projected job growth through 2034, is the closest available signal for how much room that growth has left to run.
Read more →Wildfire Risk and Home Insurance Statistics in the Western US
California has 1,279,214 housing units classified at risk for extreme wildfires, more than three times Colorado’s 332,716 and more than five times Texas’s 233,434, the three leading western states by units at risk. The 2018 Camp Fire alone caused $10 billion in insured losses at the time, equal to $12,524 million in 2024 dollars, and humans cause approximately 85% of all US wildfires annually. That risk is already reshaping the insurance market: California’s homeowners non-renewal rate reached 3.18% of policies, roughly 3.9 times its own 2018 rate of 0.82%.
Read more →Hurricane and Named-Storm Roofing Damage Statistics for Coastal States
6,437,350 US homes face extreme hurricane wind risk, representing $1,680.0 billion in potential reconstruction value, concentrated in Gulf and Atlantic coastal states. Hurricane Katrina remains the costliest storm in the record at $65 billion in insured losses at the time, equal to $101.9 billion in 2023 dollars, and it generated the highest National Flood Insurance Program payout on record at 168,200 paid losses totaling $26,247 million in 2024 dollars. More recently, Hurricane Ian caused $54 billion in insured losses ($57.2 billion in 2024 dollars) in 2022, and wind claims made up 19% of all roofing catastrophe-designated insurance claims in 2025.
Read more →Roofing Industry Private Equity and M&A Deal Volume Statistics
The number of private-equity-backed roofing platforms grew from roughly 17 at the start of 2023 to 56 by the end of 2024, a 229% increase in 24 months, according to an M&A advisory firm’s tracker compiled from public press releases, SEC filings, and trade press. Trade press separately reported 134 disclosed roofing acquisitions across the industry in 2024, and the same compiled tracker characterized 2025 as averaging roughly one platform-level roofing transaction every 48 hours. Tecta America, the largest named platform, is described as generating approximately $1.4 billion in revenue across 110+ offices in 32 states.
Read more →Roofing Sales Rep and Canvasser Wage Statistics: What the Closest BLS Code Shows
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has no occupation code specific to a roofing canvasser. The nearest available code, Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers (SOC 41-9091), showed 8,640 workers employed nationally in the most recent complete dataset located, May 2022, with a mean wage of $17.44 per hour ($36,280 per year) and a median of $14.95 per hour ($31,100 per year). No state or metro-level regional breakdown for that code was available at the time of this research. Separately, roofing-specific forum reporting on ContractorTalk describes canvasser pay as a $10 to $20 per hour base plus a $20 to $30 per-appointment bonus and 1% or more of the gross sale, a structure the BLS code above does not capture at all.
Read more →Roofing Occupational Safety Statistics: OSHA and BLS Fatality Data
104 fatal work injuries were recorded among roofers in 2024, down from 113 in 2023, a fatal-injury rate of 48.7 deaths per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers, roughly 14.8 times the all-occupations rate of 3.3 per 100,000 that same year, according to BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries data released February 19, 2026. In 2023, approximately 84% of roofer deaths (95 of 113) resulted from falls, slips, or trips, and fall protection has been the single most frequently cited federal OSHA safety standard for 15 consecutive years. That risk sits inside a construction labor market that already needs roughly 349,000 more workers in 2026 to keep pace with demand.
Read more →New Roof vs Re-Roofing Statistics: What the National Data Shows
Roughly 80% of roofing industry activity now comes from renovation and re-roofing work rather than new construction, according to IBISWorld, a figure that same research source flags as drawn from search synthesis rather than independently re-verified against a live IBISWorld page. Applied to IBISWorld’s $92.5 billion 2026 US roofing contractors market, that split works out to approximately $74 billion in renovation and re-roofing activity against roughly $18.5 billion in new-construction roofing, a calculation this page performs by applying the published percentage to the published total, not a separately reported dollar breakdown. No regional or segment-level breakdown of that 80/20 split was independently available at the time of this research.
Read more →Roofing Company Revenue and Valuation Multiple Statistics
No free, publicly available source discloses actual roofing-company gross or net profit margin percentages by revenue tier; IBISWorld gates that specific data behind a paid report. What is available: the US roofing contractors market reached $92.5 billion in 2026, a 5.0% compound annual rate since 2021, but grew just 0.3% year over year in 2026 alone, a sharp single-year deceleration. The closest available indirect profitability signal is valuation, not margin: an M&A advisory firm’s published framework puts sub-$500,000 SDE businesses at 2 to 4 times earnings, up to 8 to 12 times or higher for premium platforms with strong recurring revenue, the tier Tecta America, at roughly $1.4 billion in revenue, sits near the top of.
Read more →Florida Roofing Insurance Bad-Faith Lawsuit and AOB Litigation Statistics
Assignment of benefits lawsuits in Florida rose from 405 filed across all 67 counties in 2006 to 28,200 by 2016, a roughly 70-fold increase over the decade, according to Florida Department of Financial Services data reported by the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation. Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 7065 into law on May 23, 2019, effective July 1, 2019, specifically to address AOB misuse, and Florida ultimately banned AOBs outright for residential and commercial property policies issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2023 (Fla. Stat. Section 627.7152). Whether litigation volume actually fell after the 2019 reform, before that outright 2023 ban, was not published in the results this research located.
Read more →Roofing Lead and Appointment Cost Statistics (2026)
Roofing lead prices in 2026 range from roughly $15 for a shared marketplace lead to $200 for a booked, no-show-protected appointment, with exclusive leads closing at an estimated 25% to 35% versus 8% to 20% for shared leads. This page collects the sourced pricing, close-rate, and market-size numbers behind those figures in one place, with every stat linked to its primary source below.
Read more →Hail and Storm Damage Statistics for Roofers (2026)
NOAA recorded 5,432 hail events in 2025, and 16 states had at least 20% of their roofs hail impacted, led by Kansas at 51.8%. State Farm alone paid more than $5.6 billion in hail claims that year, with $1.4 billion of it in Texas. This page collects the sourced storm and claims numbers behind those figures, with every stat linked to its primary source below.
Read more →Roofing Industry Statistics (2026)
The US roofing contractors market was worth $92.5 billion in 2026, growing at a 5.0% CAGR, spread across 108,598 contractor businesses and roughly 156,800 working roofers. The industry is short-staffed: construction needs about 349,000 more workers in 2026, and immigrants make up more than 60% of the workforce in roofing and related trades. This page collects the sourced market and labor numbers behind those figures, with every stat linked to its primary source below.
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