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The roofing industry research published by The Roofing Brief compiles primary-source data on US roofing costs, insurance market dynamics, and contractor industry structure. Every report cites verifiable government, trade association, and industry sources. No invented data, no marketing white-papers, no contractor lead-generation in disguise. The reports are written to give homeowners, contractors, suppliers, and policy […]
The roofing industry research published by The Roofing Brief compiles primary-source data on US roofing costs, insurance market dynamics, and contractor industry structure. Every report cites verifiable government, trade association, and industry sources. No invented data, no marketing white-papers, no contractor lead-generation in disguise. The reports are written to give homeowners, contractors, suppliers, and policy makers a fact-checked baseline for whatever question they brought to the page.
What’s in The Research
- The 2026 Roofing Cost Report — national averages, regional breakdowns, and material price trends (BLS + NRCA + manufacturer + insurance benchmarks)
- The 2026 State of Roofing Insurance — carrier exits, AOB reform, premium trends, claim-denial patterns by state (FL OIR + CA DOI + TX TDI + NAIC + III)
- The 2026 Roofing Contractor Industry Report — labor shortage, manufacturer cert saturation, M&A roll-up, and storm-chaser activity (BLS + NRCA + GAF/OC/CertainTeed directories + BBB + NICB + state license boards)
- Every report is updated annually with refreshed source data
- Every numeric claim has an in-line source citation
- Research is independent and editorial; The Roofing Brief does not accept paid placement in research reports
Why we publish research reports
Roofing-industry data is fragmented across federal statistical agencies, state insurance departments, trade-association reports, manufacturer-published technical specs, public-company filings, and private aggregator services that sit behind subscriptions. The result: homeowners and contractors get conflicting numbers, and the most authoritative source for any given question is rarely the easiest to find. The Roofing Brief’s research function pulls these scattered primary sources into one place, cross-references them where they conflict, and publishes the resulting data set with full attribution. The reports are designed to be cited by other publications and quoted by AI systems precisely because every number is trackable.
The 2026 reports
The 2026 Roofing Cost Report
National installed-cost baselines for asphalt, metal, tile, slate, TPO, EPDM, PVC, and modified bitumen. Regional adjustments for Northeast, Sun Belt, Mountain West, and West Coast. Year-over-year material price trends sourced from BLS Producer Price Index, manufacturer announced price increases, and distributor commentary from Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN) earnings calls. Insurance-carrier replacement cost benchmarks from CoreLogic and Marshall & Swift / Verisk MSB. By-project-size cost matrices for 1,500, 2,500, and 3,500 sq ft homes.
The 2026 State of Roofing Insurance
State-by-state coverage of the homeowners insurance market disruption: Florida Citizens growth and Hurricane Ian/Idalia/Milton claim impact, California State Farm non-renewals, Louisiana Citizens last-resort growth, Texas TWIA expansion, Carolinas premium escalation. Florida AOB reform: SB 2A, SB 76, HB 837 pre- and post-reform litigation data. Claim denial patterns by state, ACV vs. RCV math, Class 4 IR shingle discount ranges by carrier, and the roof-age-15-year underwriting wall now standard at most major carriers.
The 2026 Roofing Contractor Industry Report
BLS NAICS 23816 employment, wage, and establishment data. NRCA labor shortage survey findings. Manufacturer-certification saturation: GAF Master Elite at roughly 4% of US roofing contractors, OC Platinum Preferred at roughly 1%, CertainTeed SELECT ShingleMaster, and secondary-tier programs. Residential roll-up activity including private equity buyers and platform consolidators. Commercial-side M&A featuring Tecta America, Centimark, Nations Roof, and KPost. BBB storm-chaser complaint trends, NICB fraud reports, and state license-board enforcement data from California CSLB, Florida CILB, and Texas TDLR. Software adoption rates for AccuLynx, JobNimbus, Roofr, EagleView, and Hover.
The 2026 Roofing Material Lifespan Report
The gap between manufacturer marketing claims and real field-failure data, by material. Verisk MSB depreciation tables, IBHS aging studies, NRCA technical advisories, ASTM D7158/D3161/D3462 standards, and insurance carrier roof-age underwriting policies compiled into realistic lifespan ranges for 3-tab and architectural asphalt, premium designer shingles, standing-seam and exposed-fastener metal, concrete and clay tile, natural slate, synthetic slate, cedar shake, TPO, EPDM, PVC, modified bitumen, BUR, and SPF. Plus the 5 compounding factors that cut lifespan 20-30%: attic ventilation, install quality, climate, maintenance, and slope.
The 2026 Severe Weather Roof Damage Report
State-by-state US severe weather roof damage compiled from NOAA Storm Events Database, NOAA Billion-Dollar Disaster data, NOAA Storm Prediction Center, IBHS Hail Risk Assessment, NICB Top 10 Hail States, FEMA disaster declarations, and CoreLogic Storm Reports. Coverage of the Top 10 hail states, Tornado Alley vs. Dixie Alley distinction, ASCE 7-22 wind-zone map, hurricane Gulf and Atlantic coastal states with Verisk Ian/Idalia/Milton loss estimates, the practical 30-60 day claim-filing window, and storm-chaser activity by region.
The 2026 State Roofing Code and Licensing Report
All 50 US states compiled into one reference: contractor licensing authority and license type, bond and insurance requirements, continuing education hours, IRC 2024 adoption status, Florida Building Code 8th and 9th editions, California Title 24 2025 update, ASCE 7-22 wind zone, Class 4 IR shingle insurance discount availability, and AOB regulation by state. Two 50-state data tables (licensing + code adoption) plus the 2026 regulatory changes: Oklahoma HB 1628 Residential Roofing Endorsement (July 1, 2026), Louisiana $7,500 residential roofing threshold (January 1, 2026), and California SB 607 $25K bond.
The 2026 Roofing CRM Software Showdown
AccuLynx vs JobNimbus vs Roofr vs RoofSnap vs Roofing Passport across 50+ features. JobNimbus is Sumeru Equity Partners-controlled after a $330M deal closed November 13, 2024. AccuLynx reports $14.4M revenue with 154 employees per Latka. Roofr’s Series B in January 2025 was TCV-led. RoofSnap has been an EverCommerce subsidiary since July 1, 2020. Roofing Passport draws on Sherwin-Williams Coil Coatings, SmartBuild, and EagleView. Side-by-side feature matrix, pricing comparison, integration ecosystem, and which platform fits which size of roofing business.
The 2026 Aerial Roof Measurement Software Report
EagleView (Vista Equity + Clearlake) vs Hover (Travelers + State Farm Ventures + Nationwide-led Series D) vs GAF QuickMeasure (tiered-discount starting at $18 single-family) vs RoofSnap (EverCommerce) vs Pictometry (persists under EagleView umbrella). Accuracy benchmarks anchored to the CompassData LiDAR comparison (EagleView 98.77 percent, June 4, 2025). Plus the Federal Circuit invalidation of EagleView patent 8,670,961 on February 3, 2026 and the EagleView-Nearmap settlement on May 29, 2026. Methodology comparison: drone vs plane vs satellite vs smartphone photo.
The 2026 Shingle Brand Comparison Report
GAF, Owens Corning, CertainTeed, IKO, Atlas, Tamko, and Malarkey compared across warranty proration schedules (from PDF documents), ASTM D7158 wind ratings, algae-resistance technology (StainGuard Plus, StreakGuard, StreakFighter, Scotchgard, NEX), Class 4 IR product line availability, manufacturer cert contractor counts, and 2026 list-price increases. Notable findings: Atlas is the only 3M Scotchgard licensee in the US shingle industry, Malarkey carries the longest non-prorated period (20 years on Legacy via Right Start) and has been Holcim-owned since March 2022, Tamko HailGuard launched February 2026 as the first asphalt shingle with extended hail warranty.
The 2026 Roofing Hail and Storm Loss Database
State-by-state hail and storm-loss roofing claims database compiled from NOAA Storm Prediction Center (SPC) hail event history, NOAA Billion-Dollar Disaster data, IBHS Hail Risk Assessment, NICB Top 10 Hail States 2024-2026, state DOI claim payouts (Texas TDI, Colorado DOI, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska), Verisk Roofing Realities, and CoreLogic Storm Reports. Coverage includes state-by-state mean annual 1-inch hail event counts 2014-2026, NICB ranking, hurricane Gulf and Atlantic losses (Verisk Ian/Idalia/Milton/Helene), MSA-level concentration, Class 4 IR shingle discount by state, and the statute-of-limitations claim-filing window in 12 hail/hurricane states. Headline data points: Texas 902 hail events 2025 (III), Kansas 51.8 percent of roofs impacted (Verisk), Verisk avg replacement cost \,631 (up 33 percent YoY), NOAA 27 billion-dollar disasters 2024 totaling \.7B, and the June 11, 2026 Streator IL EF-3 tornado outbreak with 5-6 inch hail near Kankakee.
The 2026 Roofing Material Carbon and Embodied Energy Report
Lifecycle carbon analysis of US roofing materials compiled from NREL lifecycle databases, manufacturer Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), EPA WARM Model v16, Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC), DOE Energy Saver, NRCA Sustainability Position Statement, ARMA asphalt shingle recycling data, NAPA Recycled Asphalt Shingle (RAS) usage data, MCA metal recyclability data, and ASCE 7-22. Per-material embodied energy MJ/sq ft, GWP kgCO2e/sq ft, recyclability, end-of-life waste streams, cool-roof SRI and operational carbon impact, and the lifespan-weighted carbon ranking. Primary data anchors: GAF Timberline HDZ EPD (NSF EPD10397) A1-A3 GWP 3.88 kgCO2e/m² + ADP-fossil 146 MJ/m², Owens Corning Duration EPD (UL 4789400789.101.1) A1-A3 GWP 3.49 kgCO2e/m² + ADP-fossil 188 MJ/m², Carlisle TPO EPD (ASTM-EPD425) 60-mil GWP 3.77 kgCO2e/m², EPA WARM v16 11M tons US shingle waste/year (82 percent fiberglass market share), NAPA 2024 256,400 residential roofs of RAS recycled, white TPO SRI 104-115, and Section 25C residential cool-roof eligibility expired Dec 31, 2025.
The 2026 Roofing Labor and Wage Report
BLS OEWS Roofer 47-2181 wages by state and MSA, DOL H-2B visa demand, registered apprenticeship completion rates, NRCA workforce survey, and the labor-shortage math driving installed-cost pricing.
The 2026 Roofing Permit and Inspection Database
Census Building Permits Survey metro counts, residential reroof permit costs by major US city, IRC R907 reroofing rules, common inspection failure reasons, and IBHS FORTIFIED designation data.
The 2026 Roofing Warranty Comparison Database
The seven largest asphalt shingle manufacturer warranty tiers (GAF, Owens Corning, CertainTeed, Malarkey, Tamko, IKO, Atlas) parsed side-by-side with transferability rules, claim approval and denial data, BBB complaint volume, and class-action settlement context.
How to cite these reports
Reports are published under standard editorial bylines from The Roofing Brief Research Team. Cite as: “The Roofing Brief Research Team. 2026 Roofing Cost Report. The Roofing Brief, June 2026. https://theroofingbrief.com/2026-roofing-cost-report/.” Reports are updated annually; cite by access date when the underlying data has been revised.
How we source the reports
The research function prioritizes primary sources in this order: (1) federal statistical agencies (BLS, US Census, NAIC), (2) state regulatory agencies (state insurance departments, state contractor licensing boards), (3) trade associations (NRCA, FRSA, RCMA), (4) manufacturer-published technical specs and directory data, (5) public-company SEC filings and earnings transcripts, and (6) reputable industry trade publications. Secondary sources (consultancies, AI-generated content from competing publications, marketing white-papers) are not cited. Where a primary source is behind a paywall but the underlying data is published elsewhere, we cite the open source.
Who the research is for
For homeowners
The reports answer “what should this cost,” “is my insurance company actually treating me fairly,” and “how do I know whether the contractor I’m interviewing is part of the legitimate market” with citable data rather than blog-post anecdote. Useful before signing a $20K-$60K project, after a denied claim, or when comparing two contractor estimates that differ by 40%.
For contractors
The reports give operating benchmarks: what is the labor-market context, where is the industry consolidating, what does manufacturer-certification cover, where is the bad-actor pressure coming from. Useful for business planning, recruiting, hiring decisions, and competitive positioning.
For suppliers
The reports compile channel-level data: distributor pricing trends, contractor-segment size by region, software-adoption rates affecting purchase patterns. Useful for marketing-mix decisions, channel investment, and sales-territory planning.
For policy makers and journalists
The reports provide a citation-ready summary of the state-by-state insurance regulatory landscape, the AOB reform timeline, the labor data, and the manufacturer-certification structure. Useful as a fact-check source for legislative drafting, regulatory hearings, and trade-press reporting.
What we are not publishing
The Roofing Brief Research Team does not publish: contractor lead-generation directories, vendor-sponsored “research reports” that are marketing in disguise, AI-generated content scraped from other roofing publications, “white papers” sponsored by a manufacturer where the manufacturer’s product appears as the answer, or affiliate-monetized comparison articles. The reports are editorially independent and revenue-neutral; if they generate traffic that subsidizes the rest of the publication, that is a happy accident, not a business model.
FAQ
How often are the reports updated?
Annually, with publication typically in Q2 once the prior-year’s BLS data, state DOI annual reports, and manufacturer-announced price increases are available. Major mid-year events (carrier exits, AOB reform legislation, significant storm seasons) trigger interim updates that are flagged on the report itself.
Can I cite specific data points from the reports?
Yes. Every numeric claim is footnoted with a primary source. Cite the underlying source where the data originated; cite the report itself if you are using the aggregated analysis. The reports are published under a standard editorial copyright; fair-use quotation is welcome.
Why does The Roofing Brief publish research at all?
Because the alternative is letting marketing copy from contractor lead-aggregator sites and AI-generated SEO listicles fill the citation slot. We want the easiest-to-find roofing data on the internet to be data we know is right.
Do you take research requests from manufacturers, contractors, or suppliers?
No. The research function does not accept sponsored topics, sponsored data sets, or sponsored access. If a topic is interesting and the data is available, we publish it.
Is there a way to subscribe to research updates?
Yes. The Roofing Brief newsletter (Tuesday morning, five minutes) flags new research publications and major updates. Subscribe here.
Bottom line
The Roofing Brief’s research reports are the publication’s most labor-intensive output and its most durable contribution. The format is publication-grade data aggregation: federal statistical agencies plus state regulatory agencies plus trade associations plus manufacturer specs plus public-company filings, all assembled into one place with full citation. Use them. Cite them. Tell us when our data is wrong, and we will fix it.
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Commercial Roofing Membrane Market Share Report 2026
By The Roofing Brief Team. Last reviewed: August 2026. Commercial membrane market share is usually quoted from paid vendor reports that never publish their sample. This report measures it a different way: from the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s own building survey. Using the 2018 CBECS public use microdata, single-ply and synthetic sheeting membranes cover 28.9% […]
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Roof Coating and Restoration Market Size Report 2026
By The Roofing Brief Team. Last reviewed: August 2026. The roof coating market size question has no single defensible answer, and the honest version of this report starts by saying so. Four commercial research firms published estimates for the same nominal global market in the same base year that differ by nearly 5x. No U.S. […]
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Tornado Roof Damage Statistics by State (2026): Counts, EF Scale, and Cost
Tornadoes are the most concentrated roof-destroying force in the United States. Unlike hail, which chips and bruises shingles across wide zones, and unlike hurricane wind, which spreads damage across coastal counties, a tornado applies extreme wind loads along a narrow path and routinely removes roof coverings, roof decking, and entire roof structures within seconds. This […]
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US Synthetic and Composite Roofing Market (2026): Size, Adoption, and Cost Data
Synthetic and composite roofing (polymer slate, synthetic cedar shake, and plastic or recycled-plastic roof tiles) is the fastest-growing premium segment in US steep-slope roofing, yet it remains a small share of total installations. This report aggregates the most credible published market-size estimates, cost benchmarks, and adoption drivers for the United States, flags where the numbers […]
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US Skylight and Daylighting Market Report (2026): Size, Costs, and Energy Data
The Roofing Brief Industry Reports. The US skylight and daylighting market sits at the intersection of residential remodeling demand, commercial energy codes, and a decades-long push to cut lighting electricity with natural light. This report aggregates verified figures from federal agencies, energy-code bodies, market-research firms, and construction-cost datasets into one citable reference. Market-size estimates from […]
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US Gutter Guard Market Size: 24 Statistics and Data Points (2026)
The US gutter guard market is a mid-sized, retrofit-driven building-products category with no dedicated government data series. Every published market size for it comes from private syndicated research firms, and those estimates diverge by more than two to one. This report aggregates the verified figures that exist, flags where they conflict, and anchors the demand […]
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Roofer Salary by State (2026): BLS Wage Rankings for All 50 States
This report ranks roofer pay in every U.S. state and the District of Columbia using median wage data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program, May 2025 release. It is a wage report. For where roofers are most concentrated by headcount and population, see our companion Roofers Per […]
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Roof Lifespan by Material: Evidence-Based Reference Report (2026)
How long a roof lasts is one of the most searched and most misunderstood questions in residential construction. The number stamped on a shingle wrapper is a warranty term, not a measured service life, and the two often differ by a decade or more. This report aggregates the most authoritative service-life figures available from industry […]
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Average Roof Age in the US Housing Stock (2026): By Year-Built Cohort and Region
There is no official national statistic for the average age of an American roof. Roof coverings are replaced on cycles that no federal survey tracks unit by unit. The closest defensible evidence base is the age of the housing itself, measured by the U.S. Census Bureau through the year each structure was built, combined with […]
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Hail Damage Roof Insurance Claims by State (2026): Cost, Trends, and Data
Hail is the single largest driver of weather-related property insurance claims in the United States, and roofs absorb most of the damage. This report aggregates primary and near-primary data from the National Weather Service, the Insurance Information Institute, ISO (a Verisk business), State Farm claims disclosures, and reinsurance loss estimates to answer a specific question: […]
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Wind Damage Roof Statistics by Region (2026): Where Storms Hit US Roofs Hardest
The Roofing Brief research desk aggregated federal disaster data, insurance-industry loss statistics, and building-science research to quantify how wind and storms damage American roofs, and where that damage concentrates. Wind and hail are the single largest driver of United States homeowners insurance losses, and the roof is the primary failure surface. This report pulls the […]
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Metal Roofing Market Share by Year (2026): US Residential Data and Growth Trends
Metal roofing has moved from a niche alternative to the clear number-two residential roofing material in the United States. This report tracks metal’s share of the residential roofing market year by year, using the two research programs that actually measure it: the annual Dodge Data and Analytics roofing survey commissioned by the Metal Roofing Alliance, […]
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Green Roof Statistics (2026): Installed Area, Market Size, and Performance Data
Green roof statistics in North America come from a small set of primary sources: the annual industry survey run by Green Roofs for Healthy Cities (GRHC), municipal permit records, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) property portfolio, peer-reviewed performance studies, and commercial market-research forecasts. This report aggregates the verified figures, flags where sources disagree, and […]
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US Commercial and Multifamily Roofing Market (2026): Building Stock, Systems Mix, and Market Size
The United States has 5.9 million commercial buildings covering 96.4 billion square feet of floorspace, and a separate stock of roughly 39.6 million multifamily housing units. Most of that commercial floorspace sits under low-slope membrane and built-up roofs, not the metal and shingle roofs that dominate by building count. This report sizes the commercial and […]
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Solar and Heat-Pump Roof Readiness (2026): How Electrification Is Changing Roof Requirements
The Roofing Brief research desk, July 2026. Home electrification is arriving on the roof before it arrives anywhere else in the house. Rooftop solar, heat pumps, battery storage, and the bigger electrical service they demand all change what a roof has to carry, how many times it gets penetrated, and when it should be replaced. […]
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Roofing Tear-Off Waste to Landfill by State (2026): Tonnage and Diversion
Roofing tear-off is one of the most landfill-bound waste streams in American construction. Concrete and reclaimed asphalt pavement are recycled at high rates, but old shingles are mostly buried. This report quantifies how much roofing debris the United States sends to landfill each year, how that tonnage divides across the states, and why shingle diversion […]
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Does a New Roof Raise Appraised Value? (2026): Roof Condition and Home Appraisal Data
An appraisal is not a receipt. When a homeowner spends money on a new roof, the appraised value of the house does not move by the amount of the invoice. Appraisers treat the roof as a short-lived building component, judge it on condition and remaining life rather than purchase price, and fold it into a […]
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Net Metering by State (2026): How Utility Policy Shapes Rooftop Solar Roof Economics
Net metering is the utility rule that decides what a rooftop solar system is worth. It sets the credit a home receives for the electricity its roof sends back to the grid, and that credit, combined with the local retail electricity price, drives almost the entire payback calculation. This report ranks the economic upside of […]
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Manufactured and Mobile Home Roofing in 2026: Housing Stock, Roof Types, and Replacement Cost Data
The Roofing Brief compiled this report from federal housing data, the HUD Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards, industry-association figures, and roofing-contractor cost data current to 2026. It sizes the manufactured and mobile home roofing market in the United States: how many of these homes exist, what roof systems they carry, what a reroof costs, […]
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Roof Warranty Reality (2026): Transfer Rules, Proration, and What Actually Gets Paid
The Roofing Brief, July 2026. A “lifetime” asphalt shingle warranty is not a promise to replace your roof for free for life. It is a limited warranty with a short window of full coverage, followed by a long prorated tail that pays only a shrinking fraction of the shingle material cost and, in most cases, […]
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Roofers Per Capita by State (2026): Where Roofing Contractors Are Most and Least Concentrated
Roofing capacity is not spread evenly across the United States. Using the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2023 County Business Patterns, the country had 25,519 roofing contractor establishments with paid employees and 215,242 people working at them. Set against the Census Bureau’s July 2024 population estimate of 340,110,988, that works out to 7.50 roofing establishments and 63.3 […]
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Roof Algae and Black Streaks by Region (2026): Where Gloeocapsa magma Hits Roofs Hardest
Black streaks on asphalt shingles are not dirt and not mold. They are colonies of a photosynthetic cyanobacterium, Gloeocapsa magma, and where it grows fastest is set mostly by one variable: how long roof surfaces stay damp. This report aggregates the biology, the manufacturer and trade-body guidance, and long-run relative humidity normals to rank US […]
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Roof Claim Litigation and AOB Lawsuits by State (2026): The Property-Insurance Lawsuit Map
The Roofing Brief Research Desk. Roof insurance claims are one of the most litigated categories in U.S. property insurance, and the litigation is not spread evenly. A handful of states, led by Florida, have historically produced the large majority of the nation’s homeowners insurance lawsuits, and roof claims sit at the center of that fight […]
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Roof Leak Insurance Claims (2026): Frequency and Cost by Cause
Roof-related damage is the single largest driver of homeowners insurance claims in the United States. Insurers do not track a line item called “roof leak.” They record losses by peril, and the two perils that a roof exists to defend against, wind and hail plus water damage and freezing, together account for roughly two thirds […]
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Roofing Solar Reflectance and SRI Reference (2026): Measured Values by Roof Type and Color
This reference compiles measured and standards-defined solar reflectance, thermal emittance, and Solar Reflectance Index (SRI) values for common United States roofing products and colors. Every number below traces to a primary source: the Cool Roof Rating Council (CRRC), the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Heat Island Group, the ASTM E1980 standard, and the U.S. Department […]
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Homeowners Insurance Premiums by Roof Type and Age (2026): What Your Roof Does to Your Rate
The roof is the single building component that homeowners insurers scrutinize most closely, because it is the part of the house most exposed to the perils that drive claims. This report pulls together verified data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I), ISO/Verisk, the Insurance Research Council (IRC), and […]
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Roof Age at Home Sale (2026): How Old America's Roofs Are When Houses Change Hands, and Disclosure Rules by State
The roof is one of the few components a home buyer cannot easily inspect from the ground and cannot cheaply replace after closing. It is also one of the most common negotiation flashpoints in a residential transaction. This report assembles verified public data on how old the U.S. housing stock is, how long roofing materials […]
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Roofer Employment Projections by State (2026): Where Roofer Jobs Are Growing Fastest
The Roofing Brief Research Desk. Roofer employment in the United States is projected to reach 176,500 jobs by 2034, up from 166,700 in 2024, a net gain of 9,800 jobs and 5.9 percent growth over the decade, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections program. That national headline hides a sharp geographic […]
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FAIR Plan Growth and the Roof-Condition Squeeze (2026): Insurers of Last Resort by State
State-run insurers of last resort, known as FAIR Plans (Fair Access to Insurance Requirements) and Citizens plans, were built as a temporary backstop for a small number of hard-to-insure homes. They are no longer small. FAIR Plans now cover nearly 3 million properties nationwide with combined exposure above $1 trillion, according to the Insurance Information […]
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Roofing Prices vs Inflation (2026): The Real Cost of a Roof, 1990 to 2026
The Roofing Brief deflated the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index for roofing materials by the Consumer Price Index to answer one question: after stripping out general inflation, has a roof actually become more expensive since 1990? The short answer is yes, but almost all of the real increase arrived after 2005. Through […]
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Roofer Heat Illness and Heat Deaths (2026): The Deadliest Weather Risk on the Roof, by the Numbers
Roofing is one of the deadliest jobs in the United States, and one of its underrated killers is not a fall but the weather. Roofers work on dark, radiant surfaces that run far hotter than the air a weather report measures, and federal data shows they die from environmental heat at a rate roughly seven […]
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Winter Roof Collapse and Snow-Load Losses (2026): How Much Snow a Roof Can Take and What Failure Costs
The Roofing Brief research team compiled this report from federal safety guidance, structural engineering standards, and insurance loss datasets to answer two questions homeowners and building managers ask every winter: how much snow can a roof actually hold, and what does a failure cost. Every figure below is traced to a named public source. Figures […]
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Recycled Asphalt Shingles in America's Roads (2026): How Much Roofing Waste Becomes Pavement
Every year the United States tears roughly 11 million tons of old asphalt shingles off its roofs. A small and shrinking share of that material is ground up and paved back into the nation’s roads as recycled asphalt shingles (RAS). This report quantifies how much roofing waste becomes pavement, how much liquid asphalt binder is […]
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Roof Rainwater Harvesting Potential (2026): How Many Gallons America's Roofs Could Capture
American rooftops are a vast, mostly unused catchment surface. Using the standard rainwater harvesting formula, the national rooftop area measured by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and NOAA precipitation data, the country’s roofs could physically shed on the order of 1.39 trillion gallons of runoff each year. This report assembles the […]
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Rooftop Solar Technical Potential by State (2026): How Much Power US Roofs Could Generate
US rooftops could physically host 1,118 gigawatts of solar panels and generate 1,432 terawatt-hours of electricity a year, equal to 39 percent of national electricity sales at the time of measurement. That figure comes from the most detailed federal assessment of rooftop solar ever produced, and it treats every suitable roof in the country as […]
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Roof Age and Hail Claim Severity (2026): How Much More an Old Roof Costs Insurers
Every year a roof ages, it costs its insurer more, and the cost curve is not a straight line. Combining published claims data on roof condition, claim frequency, and claim severity, an old roof (roughly 16 years or older, in poor condition) drives about 48% higher pure premium than a new one, per CAPE Analytics […]
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Roof Cost-to-Income Ratio by Metro (2026): Where a New Roof Hurts the Most
Across 13 major U.S. metros, the roof cost-to-income ratio, the price of a full roof replacement measured against local median household income, ranges from about 13% in Washington, DC to roughly 23% in New York, based on The Roofing Brief’s 2026 metro roof pricing paired with U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) 2024 income […]
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Wage Theft in Roofing (2026): DOL Back Wages and Violation Rates
A data brief by The Roofing Brief Team. Figures cited inline to named primary sources. Last reviewed July 2026. Headline finding: Applying the national construction misclassification rate of 12% to 21% (Ormiston, Belman and Erlich, 2020) to the roofing workforce of 166,700 workers (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024) yields an estimated 20,000 to 35,000 roofing […]
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Roofing Embodied Carbon (2026): A Cradle-to-Grave Lifecycle Breakdown by Material
A fully documented asphalt shingle (GAF Timberline HDZ, per NSF EPD10397, 2020) carries about 5.52 kg CO2e per square meter of installed roof from cradle to grave, and roughly 30% of that carbon sits beyond the factory gate: in delivery to the jobsite, installation waste, and landfill disposal. Most roofing carbon figures you will read […]
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Green Roof Mandates and Incentives by City (2026)
Green roof mandates and incentives now vary sharply across US cities: some require vegetation or solar on nearly every new roof, others pay owners up to $15 per square foot, and a few do neither. This report ranks the leading city rules by how much roof they actually require, pairs them with the cash and […]
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Roofing Technology Adoption Report (2026): Drones, AI, and Aerial Data
By the end of 2025, most US roofing contractors were flying drones and ordering aerial measurements, and AI use inside the trade climbed from 29% to 40% in a single year. Yet only 4% had AI built into their core business software. The picture that emerges from the two largest roofing-industry technology surveys is a […]
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Do Class A Roofs Save Homes in Wildfires? What Post-Fire Data Shows (2026)
A Class A roof improves a home’s odds of surviving a wildfire, but post-fire damage-inspection data shows the roof covering alone is not what separates a house that stands from one that burns. Across CAL FIRE’s Damage Inspection Program (DINS) records and Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) field studies, roof construction ranks […]
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Cool Roofs and the Energy-Burden Gap (2026): Who Gains Most From a Reflective Roof
Cool roofs cut a home’s cooling energy use by about 7% to 15% (Cool Roof Rating Council, cited by ENERGY STAR), yet that flat percentage lands very unevenly. The households carrying the widest energy-burden gap, low-income families in the hot-dry Southwest and hot-humid Southeast, are also the households where a reflective roof does the most […]
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FORTIFIED Roof Performance (2026): How Much Hurricane Damage It Actually Prevents
Headline finding: In the first large-scale, real-world test of the standard, FORTIFIED roofs cut hurricane insurance claim frequency by roughly two-thirds. When Hurricane Sally struck Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm in September 2020, FORTIFIED Roof homes filed about 66% fewer claims than conventional homes and FORTIFIED Gold homes about 69% fewer, per […]
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Cool Roof Mandates by City (2026): Where Reflective Roofs Are Required
At least eight major US jurisdictions now legally require reflective cool roofs on new and re-roofed buildings, and the binding number in almost every rule is a single figure: the roof’s solar reflectance. Across the mandates examined here, the required low-slope reflectance floor clusters between 0.55 and 0.72, meaning a compliant flat commercial roof must […]
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The Immigrant Roofing Workforce 2026: Foreign-Born Share of Roofers by State
Roofing is one of the three most immigrant-dependent skilled trades in America. About 53% of U.S. roofers were foreign-born in 2024, according to a National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) analysis of American Community Survey data published in April 2026, and roughly 32% of roofers were unauthorized immigrants as of 2022, per the Pew Research […]
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Asphalt Shingle Roof Runoff Pollution (2026): Granules, PAHs, and Metals in Stormwater
Asphalt shingle roof runoff is not clean water. Rain leaving a typical shingle roof carries dissolved zinc at roughly 14 to 17 times a common water quality reference threshold, plus lead and copper above guideline levels, alongside eroded mineral granules, bitumen particles, and polymer fibers. Because asphalt shingles cover more than 80% of United States […]
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America's Impervious Roof Area (2026): Roofs, Stormwater Runoff, and Stormwater Fees
American rooftops shed an estimated 5 trillion gallons of stormwater a year, plausibly 4 to 7 trillion depending on rooftop area and regional rainfall. Roofs cover on the order of 11,000 square miles of the country, roughly a quarter to a third of all impervious surface, and because they are nearly waterproof they convert about […]
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The Roof Gap (2026): Deferred Roof Repair by Income and Tenure
Headline finding: A renter is roughly twice as likely to live under a failing roof as a homeowner, and among the lowest-income households the rate runs two to three times the national average. Deferred roof repair in America is not spread evenly. It concentrates on low-income renters and households of color, according to a Roofing […]
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Dark Roofs and Urban Heat (2026): Roof Color, City Temperatures, and Heat Deaths
Dark roofs and urban heat are physically linked: a conventional dark asphalt or membrane roof reflects only about 5 to 10 percent of sunlight, so its surface can climb to 150 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit on a 90-degree afternoon, roughly 50 to 70 degrees hotter than the surrounding air (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Heat Island […]
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Solar Shingle Cost and Adoption Report (2026): Tesla Solar Roof vs GAF Timberline Solar
Solar shingles split into two very different stories in 2026. GAF Timberline Solar, the nailable shingle that ordinary roofing crews install, is scaling from the largest solar roofing factory in the world, while the Tesla Solar Roof has stalled near an estimated 3,000 lifetime U.S. installations and Tesla has pivoted its residential energy push toward […]
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Impact-Resistant Shingle Insurance Discounts by State (2026)
Impact-resistant shingle insurance discounts range from roughly 5% to 35% off the premium, but the size depends less on the shingle and more on your state’s legal regime and hail history. Only a few states, led by Texas, require insurers to offer a discount at all. Everywhere else the credit is voluntary and set by […]
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Roof Permit Cost by Metro (2026): Where Permits Cost the Most
Roof permit cost by metro ranged from about $27 in San Antonio to $688 in Portland, Oregon in 2026, a roughly 25x spread on the same standardized $12,000 asphalt shingle reroof, according to PermitCalculator fee-schedule data across 26 cities. The permit is the line item most homeowners forget to price, and the fee you pay […]
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Does Roof Color Affect Resale Value? 2026 Data Report
Roof color has a real but indirect effect on home resale value. No public study puts an exact dollar figure on a shingle color the way Zillow prices a front-door color, so anyone quoting a precise “$X for a gray roof” is guessing. What the data does support: a color that suits the house and […]
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Roofing Franchise vs Independent Report (2026): Which Roofers Make More
Independent roofers keep more of every dollar, but a franchise can help a new owner reach revenue faster and fail less often. Across 2023 to 2026 Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs), named roofing franchises charge 7% to 15% of gross revenue in ongoing fees (royalty plus brand fund). At $2 million in annual sales, that is […]
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DIY Roofing Injury Report (2026): Ladder Falls and Roof-Work ER Visits
DIY roofing injuries send tens of thousands of Americans to the emergency room every year, and almost all of them start the same way: a fall from a ladder or a roof edge. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) attributes more than 164,000 ER-treated injuries and roughly 300 deaths a year to ladder falls, […]
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Roofing Material Lead Times and Shortage Report (2026)
Roofing material lead times in 2026 split sharply by product. Standing seam metal roofing runs 12 to 18 weeks from domestic fabricators and insulated metal panels 10 to 16 weeks, while TPO and EPDM membrane sits at 3 to 6 weeks in most Sunbelt and Midwest markets and 6 to 10 weeks in the Northeast […]
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Roofing Private Equity Consolidation Tracker (2026): The Rollup of the Roofing Industry
Private equity has turned the fragmented US roofing industry into one of its favorite roll-up targets. Roofing private equity consolidation accelerated to a record pace in 2025, with PitchBook counting 67 US roofing deals worth about $2.9 billion, up from 13 deals worth $542.8 million in 2019 (PitchBook, cited by The Deal Sheet, 2026). Yet […]
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Roof Replacement Cost by Metro (2026): The Most and Least Expensive Cities
Roof replacement cost by metro varies more than most homeowners expect: a standard architectural asphalt shingle job that runs about $9,000 to $14,000 in San Antonio or Houston can reach $22,000 to $30,000 or more in Seattle, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area in 2026. The single largest reason is local labor. Labor […]
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Roofer Ratings by State (2026): Average Google Star Rating and Review Volume
The typical US roofing contractor holds an average Google rating of about 4.45 stars, based on 2026 benchmark data from ReplyOnTheFly, which places roofing slightly below HVAC (4.55) and plumbing (4.52) but above the broad home-services floor of 4.2 stars reported by Little Nudge. Ratings and review volume are not uniform across the country. They […]
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Wildfire Roof Risk Report (2026): Class A Roof Requirements by State
As of April 2026, California and Colorado are the only two states with a mandatory statewide code that forces a Class A fire-rated roof in wildfire zones, according to Headwaters Economics. Every other high-risk Western state leaves the decision to local building departments or has no wildfire roof rule at all. That gap matters because […]
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Most Popular Roof Colors in America (2026 Report)
Charcoal and Weathered Wood are the two most popular roof colors in America heading into 2026. Across major asphalt shingle brands, gray and gray-brown neutrals dominate installs, with charcoal-black leading modern and farmhouse builds and Weathered Wood leading traditional homes. Manufacturer color-of-the-year picks are drifting toward muted greens, but sales still concentrate in a narrow […]
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OSHA Roofing Violations Report 2026: The Most-Cited Standards
Federal OSHA cited roofing contractors 10,644 times across 4,267 inspections in fiscal year 2025 (October 2024 through September 2025), assessing $46,579,631 in penalties, according to OSHA’s Frequently Cited Standards database for NAICS 238160. One standard, fall protection (1926.501), accounts for a third of every roofing citation and well over half of the penalty dollars. This […]
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Cheapest Month to Replace a Roof: 2026 Seasonality Index
The cheapest month to replace a roof in most of the country is January or February, the deep trough of contractor demand. The Roofing Brief built a month-by-month Roofing Seasonality Index from federal labor data and search-demand signals, and it shows the same pattern every year: crews are stretched thin from June through November, then […]
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Roofing Search Demand Trends (2026): Which Materials Are Rising and Falling
Search interest is the clearest early read on what homeowners are considering before they call a contractor, and in 2026 it tells a very different story than what is actually going on roofs. Metal roofing dominates roofing search demand, drawing an estimated 60,500 US searches a month for the head term alone (Skoatch 2025 keyword […]
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The Oldest Roofs in America: Roof-Age Estimate by Metro (2026)
The metros with the oldest roofs in America sit almost entirely in the Northeast and the industrial Midwest, led by Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Elmira, New York, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where the typical home was built in the mid-1950s and is about 69 years old (U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey, 2020 to 2024, via Construction Coverage, […]
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Storm-Chaser Roofing Contractors: Which States Are Most Exposed After Disasters (2026)
Storm-chaser roofing contractors travel from one disaster zone to the next, soliciting homeowners door to door in the weeks after a hurricane, hailstorm, or tornado, then leave once the insurance money is collected. The states most exposed to this pattern are not simply the ones hit hardest. They are the states where high disaster frequency […]
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Best and Worst States for Roofing Complaints (2026)
Florida, Georgia, and Delaware top the 2026 ranking of states with the heaviest consumer-complaint pressure, while South Dakota, North Dakota, and Iowa sit at the bottom. That ranking uses the Federal Trade Commission’s 2024 reports-per-100,000-residents rate as the closest public state-level proxy, because no agency publishes roofing-only complaints uniformly across all 50 states. The pattern […]
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Roofing Cost Per Lead by Channel: 2026 Acquisition Cost Benchmark
The roofing cost per lead in 2026 ranges from about $3 to $5 per door-knock at the cheap end to $228.15 for a paid Google search lead, per LocaliQ’s 2025 benchmark study, but the sticker price on a lead tells you almost nothing about what a booked job actually costs. This report ranks the main […]
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Metal Roofing Tariff and Import Exposure Report (2026)
Metal roofing carries more tariff risk in 2026 than any other roofing category, because every common panel metal (steel, aluminum, and copper) now sits under a 50% Section 232 tariff, and one of them, aluminum, is majority imported. Steel-based panels dominate the residential market and are mostly rolled from domestic coil, so their exposure shows […]
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Roofing Deductible Fraud Loss Report (2026): Cost and State Bans
Roofing deductible fraud sits at the center of the fastest growing category of post-storm insurance crime in the United States. Reported contractor fraud rose about 38% between 2023 and 2025, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB, 2026), and the single most common tactic is a roofer offering to “eat” or rebate a homeowner’s […]
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Insurance Non-Renewal by Roof Age (2026): When Insurers Drop or Downgrade a Roof
Roof age is now one of the fastest routes to a homeowners insurance non-renewal or a quiet coverage downgrade. Across 15 disaster-prone states, the share of homeowners dropped by their carrier climbed from 0.80% in 2018 to 2.32% in 2024, a 2.9x jump, per Weiss Ratings analysis of National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Market […]
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How Often Do Americans Replace Their Roof? Replacement Frequency Report (2026)
Americans replace an asphalt shingle roof roughly once every 20 to 25 years, and the country as a whole replaces on the order of several million residential roofs each year. That headline number hides wide variation: a 3-tab asphalt roof may need replacing at 15 to 20 years, while metal lasts 40 to 70 years […]
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Roofing Apprenticeship and Training Report: The Pipeline Behind 12,700 Annual Roofer Openings (2026)
The formal training pipeline for roofers is small relative to the work the trade needs done. Federal data show roofers held about 166,700 jobs in the United States in 2024, with roughly 12,700 openings projected each year through 2034, yet the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics states plainly that most roofers learn on the job […]
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Roofing Material Market Share Report: What U.S. Roofs Are Actually Made Of (2026)
The U.S. roofing materials market share splits by building type. On homes, asphalt shingles hold roughly 73% to 81% of the residential market and metal roofing about 17% to 18%; on commercial low-slope buildings single-ply membranes hold about half the market, with TPO leading (Tier 2 market research, 2023 to 2025). This briefing aggregates what […]
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Cool Roof Energy Savings Report: How Much Reflective Roofs Save by Climate (2026)
Reflective, or cool, roofs cut the cooling energy a building uses by reflecting sunlight that a dark roof would absorb. Field studies compiled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report measured annual cooling-energy savings from 10 to nearly 70 percent on individual buildings, and a 2004 review of more than 25 studies found an average […]
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Roof Replacement ROI and Resale Value Report: 2025 Cost vs. Value Data
A roof replacement is one of the most expensive exterior projects a homeowner undertakes, and it returns a smaller share of its cost at resale than curb-appeal projects like a new garage door or front door. This report compiles the cost-recouped percentages, job costs, and resale values published in Zonda’s 2025 Cost vs. Value Report […]
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US Roofing Industry Concentration: Firm-Size & Fragmentation Report 2026
The United States roofing contractor industry is one of the most fragmented building trades in the federal statistical record. According to the U.S. Census Bureau Statistics of U.S. Businesses (SUSB), 2022, NAICS 238160 (Roofing Contractors) contained 24,044 employer firms operating 24,532 establishments, employing 204,998 paid workers and paying $13.3 billion in annual payroll. This report […]
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Roofing Workforce Demographics Report: Who Roofs America (2026)
This report profiles who installs and repairs roofs in the United States, using federal labor data on age, sex, race and ethnicity, foreign-born share, union membership, and self-employment. The strongest demographic signal is concentration: roofing is one of the most Hispanic and most foreign-born trades in an already immigrant-heavy construction sector. Roofer-specific cells in the […]
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Roofing vs the Other Skilled Trades: Pay, Size, and Risk Compared, 2026
Roofing sits near the bottom of the skilled trades on pay and at the very top on danger. As of May 2024, roofers earned a median annual wage of $50,970, the second lowest of the five major building trades, while the roofer fatality rate of 51.8 deaths per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers in 2023 was the […]
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The Roofing Competition Index: Ranking the Most and Least Competitive U.S. Roofing Markets (2026)
The Roofing Competition Index (RCI) ranks all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia by how saturated and competitive each state’s roofing-contractor market is, using only verifiable supply-side density data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The index combines roofing establishments per 100,000 residents, roofing employees per 100,000 residents, and average crew size (employees per […]
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The Roofing Opportunity Index: 50 Best States to Start a Roofing Company (2026)
The Roofing Opportunity Index ranks U.S. states by how attractive each is for starting or operating a roofing business, combining a demand signal (2023 median household income from the U.S. Census Bureau) with a competition signal (roofing-contractor density per 100,000 residents from 2022 County Business Patterns). New Jersey ranks first among the 50 states, scoring […]
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The Roofing Affordability Index: All 50 States Ranked by Roof Cost vs Income (2026)
The Roofing Affordability Index ranks all 50 US states by how expensive a typical roof replacement is relative to local median household income. It divides an estimated state roof replacement cost by the state median household income from the 2023 American Community Survey, then ranks states from least affordable to most affordable. As of June […]
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How Many Roofing Contractors Are in the US? 2026 Count and Density Report
This briefing counts the roofing contractor industry in the United States using federal establishment data, not estimates or trade-press extrapolation. The U.S. Census Bureau counted 24,532 employer roofing contractor establishments (NAICS 238160) operating in 2022, run by 24,044 distinct firms and employing 204,998 people on payroll. This page maps where those businesses are, how concentrated […]
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US Housing Stock Roof Age and Material Report: How Old America's Roofs Are in 2026
The United States had about 145.9 million housing units at the end of 2023, and the median owner-occupied home reached 42 years of age in 2024, the oldest on record (U.S. Census Bureau; National Association of Home Builders analysis of the 2024 American Community Survey). Because roofs wear on a clock set by the year […]
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Roofing Workers' Compensation Report: Costs, Class Code 5551, and Why Rates Run High in 2026
Roofing carries one of the highest workers’ compensation costs of any occupation in the United States, a direct consequence of it being the third-deadliest civilian job by fatality rate. This report grounds the cost of roofing workers’ compensation in primary federal injury data and explains why published rate examples for the standard roofing class code […]
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Roofing Safety and Fatality Report: 104 Roofer Deaths and the 2024 Federal Injury Data
Roofing ranks among the three deadliest occupations in the United States. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded 104 fatal work injuries among roofers (occupation, SOC 47-2181) in 2024, at a roofer 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 (BLS Census of Fatal […]
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US Roofing Construction Spending Report: Roofing's Share of U.S. Building Activity, 2026
Roofing is not broken out as its own line in the U.S. Census Bureau’s Value of Construction Put in Place series, so this report frames roofing as a derived subset of total U.S. construction spending. It anchors that subset to the Census Bureau’s 2017 Economic Census roofing-contractor receipts, two named market-research estimates, and the Census […]
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Housing Starts and Roofing Demand Report 2026: New-Roof Demand from U.S. Construction Data
Every newly completed home arrives with one new roof, which makes the U.S. Census Bureau and HUD New Residential Construction series a direct meter for new-roof demand in the United States. This briefing reads the latest release, for May 2026 (published June 16, 2026), and the full year 2025, to separate the demand that has […]
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Roofing Business Formation and Survival: How Many Start and Survive (2026)
This briefing measures how many roofing-related businesses start and how many survive at the 1, 3, 5, and 10-year marks, using the two definitive federal datasets that track new business activity: the U.S. Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics (BFS) and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Business Employment Dynamics (BED) establishment age and survival series. […]
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Roofing and Shingle Waste Recycling Report: U.S. Statistics 2026
Asphalt roofing shingles are one of the largest single material streams inside U.S. construction and demolition (C&D) debris, yet the share that gets recycled is small and the underlying data is sparse. This briefing pulls the verifiable numbers from federal datasets and the asphalt-pavement industry’s own survey, then derives transparent estimates for how much shingle […]
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Solar Roofing Adoption Statistics: US Home Solar Data 2026
Rooftop and other small-scale solar now sits on a small but fast-growing share of U.S. homes, and the price of a residential system has fallen by roughly two-thirds since 2010. This briefing aggregates verified data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on […]
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The Roofing Material Price and Inflation Index: BLS Producer Price Data Tracked Against CPI, 2026
Roofing material prices, measured by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index, rose 45.0% from the 2019 annual average through May 2026, compared with a 31.1% rise in the broad Consumer Price Index over the same window. This research asset tracks the official PPI series for asphalt roofing, metal roofing inputs, and construction […]
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The Roofing Warranty Comparison Database 2026: GAF, Owens Corning, CertainTeed, Malarkey, Tamko, IKO, and Atlas Parsed Side-by-Side
This roofing warranty comparison database 2026 parses the warranty PDFs published by the seven largest asphalt shingle manufacturers selling in the United States. It lays out what each tier covers and excludes, what “lifetime” means in legal terms, which contractor credential a homeowner needs for the upper tiers, and what historical claim outcomes (class action […]
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Roofing Permit Inspection Database 2026: Metro Permit Counts, Costs by City, and Inspection Failure Rates
Roofing Permit Inspection Database 2026: Metro Permit Counts, Costs by City, and Inspection Failure Rates | The Roofing Brief Roofing Permit Inspection Database 2026: Metro Permit Counts, Costs by City, and Inspection Failure Rates Editorially Verified — June 26, 2026. Independent fact-checker reviewed all numeric claims across 37 tool uses. 28 confirmed accurate, including all […]
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The Roofing Labor Wage Report 2026: BLS OEWS Wages, H-2B Visa Demand, Apprenticeship, and the Workforce Shortage
Roofing Labor Wage Report 2026 (BLS OEWS, H-2B, Apprenticeship) | TRB The Roofing Labor Wage Report 2026: BLS OEWS Wages, H-2B Visa Demand, Apprenticeship, and the Workforce Shortage Editorially Verified — June 26, 2026. Independent fact-checker reviewed all 30+ numeric claims and source citations across 27 tool uses. 30+ confirmed accurate, including all BLS CFOI […]
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The 2026 State Roofing Code and Licensing Report: All 50 States Compiled
The state roofing code licensing report 2026 from The Roofing Brief Research Team compiles, for all 50 US states and the District of Columbia, the contractor-licensing authority, the roofing-specific license class where one exists, bond and continuing-education requirements, the ...
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