2026 Q3 · metro rank 71 of 263
Roof replacement cost in Chico
An architectural shingle roof in the Chico, CA metro costs $516 per square installed on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: -6.6% against the California figure of $552 and +3.1% against the US typical of $500. Roofers here earn a mean $29.30/hour (median $29.38, about 100 employed), BLS May 2025. For a whole roof: an architectural shingle roof on a 2,000 sq ft single-story home (6/12 pitch, one layer torn off, permit and dumpster included) costs $13,034 to $23,752 here, typical $18,353.
All materials in Chico
| Material | Low | Typical | High | US typical | vs US |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $414 | $516 | $617 | $500 | +3.1% |
| 3-tab shingles | $290 | $367 | $444 | $355 | +3.4% |
| Standing seam metal | $924 | $1,281 | $1,639 | $1,250 | +2.5% |
| Metal panel | $519 | $929 | $1,339 | $900 | +3.2% |
| Tile | $724 | $1,853 | $2,982 | $1,800 | +3.0% |
| Slate | $1,019 | $2,043 | $3,068 | $2,000 | +2.2% |
| Flat membrane | $260 | $491 | $722 | $475 | +3.3% |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "Chico, CA" (area code 17020). State rank for California: 10 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in Chico
Housing age. The median home in the Chico, CA metro was built in 1981, older than the median metro in the Index (1982). 48.6% of homes were built before 1980 and 22.7% in 2000 or later; 57% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Roof age, not house age, sets the replacement date.
Hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logged 1 county hail reports across the metro's 1 county from 2021 to 2025 (0 in 2021, 0 in 2022, 1 in 2023, 0 in 2024, 0 in 2025), rank 232 of 263 metros. From January 2021 to June 2026, 0 reports were stones of 1 inch or larger, and the largest was 0.75 inches. Most reports came from Butte, 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
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont $590/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
- Yuba City $512/sq
- Merced $499/sq
Metros with a similar cost
- Champaign-Urbana, IL $518/sq · rank 68
- Bend, OR $518/sq · rank 69
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD $516/sq · rank 72
- Urban Honolulu, HI $514/sq · rank 73
- Fargo, ND-MN $514/sq · rank 74
More: how much a new roof costs, every state, the full Index.
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