2026 Q3 data
Roof replacement cost in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area
How much does a new roof cost in San Francisco, CA?
$14,700 – $25,700
Typical $20,200 · architectural shingles · 2,000 sq ft home
That is $590 per square (100 sq ft of roof) installed, above the US typical of $500.
How we got this number
An architectural shingle roof in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro costs $483 to $697 per square installed (typical $590) on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: +6.9% against the California figure of $552 and +18.0% against the US typical of $500. Metro rank 11 of 263 (1 = most expensive).
Material is priced nationally; labor is scaled by the local roofer wage. Roofers here earn a mean $35.68/hour (median $35.74, about 2,610 employed), BLS May 2025. The whole-roof range is for a 2,000 sq ft single-story home (6/12 pitch, one layer torn off, permit and dumpster included). Full methodology.
All materials in San Francisco, CA
| Material, per square | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $483 | $590 | $697 |
| 3-tab shingles | $335 | $424 | $513 |
| Standing seam metal | $1,038 | $1,430 | $1,821 |
| Metal panel | $611 | $1,066 | $1,521 |
| Tile | $838 | $2,104 | $3,370 |
| Slate | $1,111 | $2,249 | $3,387 |
| Flat membrane | $305 | $565 | $824 |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA" (area code 41860). State rank for California: 10 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont
Housing age. The median home in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro was built in 1968, older than the median metro in the Index (1982). 66.7% of homes were built before 1980 and 15% in 2000 or later; 55% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Roof age, not house age, sets the replacement date.
Hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logged 6 county hail reports across the metro's 5 counties from 2021 to 2025 (3 in 2021, 0 in 2022, 1 in 2023, 2 in 2024, 0 in 2025), rank 196 of 263 metros. From January 2021 to June 2026, 0 reports were stones of 1 inch or larger, and the largest was 0.25 inches. Most reports came from Alameda, California (2), San Francisco, California (2), San Mateo, California (1). After a hail storm, read the roof insurance claim guide and how hail damages a roof.
Sources: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (county hail reports 2021 to June 30, 2026); U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimates 2020-2024, tables B25035, B25034 and B25003; counties per OMB July 2023 metro definitions.
Other California metros
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara $605/sq
- Santa Rosa-Petaluma $566/sq
- Vallejo $551/sq
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim $549/sq
- Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom $547/sq
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura $541/sq
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad $540/sq
- Modesto $535/sq
- Stockton-Lodi $534/sq
- Salinas $533/sq
- San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles $530/sq
- Santa Cruz-Watsonville $529/sq
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario $529/sq
- Santa Maria-Santa Barbara $526/sq
- Fresno $525/sq
- Visalia $524/sq
- Redding $518/sq
- Bakersfield-Delano $516/sq
- Chico $516/sq
- Yuba City $512/sq
- Merced $499/sq
Metros with a similar cost
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI $599/sq · rank 8
- Springfield, MA $594/sq · rank 9
- Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ $591/sq · rank 10
- Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA $584/sq · rank 12
- Decatur, IL $581/sq · rank 13
- St. Cloud, MN $576/sq · rank 14
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