Roof replacement cost in Edmonton,
2026 pricing guide.

Size is the single biggest driver of price. Everything below assumes architectural asphalt shingles, a full tear-off, and typical complexity, with materials, labour and disposal included.

One thing to settle before you budget: your roof is bigger than your floor plan. Pitch and overhangs add area, so a 1,200 square foot bungalow footprint usually carries somewhere around 1,500 to 1,700 square feet of actual roof surface. A steeper roof adds more again.

Small bungalows, anything up to roughly 1,500 square feet of roof, run $7,500 to $11,500. These are the simplest roofs we do: single storey, walkable pitch, not many penetrations to flash around. Most are stripped and reshingled inside a day.

An average bungalow carries around 1,500 to 2,000 square feet of roof and lands between $9,000 and $14,000. This is the most common quote we write in Edmonton. Where a house falls inside that range usually has less to do with square footage than with how many vents, skylights and chimneys are up there, because every one of those is flashing work done by hand.

Two-storey homes typically carry 1,800 to 2,400 square feet of roof and cost $11,500 to $18,000. The extra money is not only the area. It is the height: more staging, more fall-protection setup, slower material handling, and a longer trip for every bundle that goes up and every square of old shingle that comes down.

Large or cut-up rooflines, meaning 2,500 square feet and up or anything with a steep pitch and a lot of valleys and dormers, start around $16,000 and can pass $28,000 once premium materials are involved. Worth knowing: a cut-up roof on a 2,000 square foot house can cost more than a simple roof on a 2,800 square foot one. Area is easy. Detail is not.

Within every one of those bands the same rule holds. Simple, walkable gable roofs land near the bottom. Steep pitches, multiple storeys, dormers, valleys and skylights push toward the top.

Roofers price whole projects rather than squares of shingles, but per square foot maths is the fastest way to sanity-check a quote against the ranges above. Divide the quoted total by your roof area, not your floor area, and see where it lands. Architectural asphalt, the Edmonton benchmark, should come out around $4.50 to $7.00 per square foot installed.

The word doing the work there is installed. A legitimate per square foot figure covers tear-off, underlayment and membrane, new flashings, labour and disposal. It is not the price of shingles, and a quote built only on material cost will always look cheaper than one that includes the work.

So if a price comes in dramatically under these ranges, nothing magical has happened. Something has been left out of it, and you generally meet that something halfway through the job, priced as an extra, with your roof already open and very little leverage on your side.

One bit of vocabulary while you are comparing. Roofers talk in squares, and one square is simply 100 square feet of roof. A typical Edmonton bungalow works out to somewhere around 15 to 20 squares, and a two-storey is often 18 to 24. If a quote is priced per square, divide by 100 to get back to the per square foot figures above.

National cost articles consistently underprice this market, because they average in cities that never see what our roofs see. A roof built to the bare minimum here fails early, and the specification that survives an Edmonton decade costs more than the specification that survives a Vancouver one.

Freeze-thaw is the quiet one. A roof that swings from minus 25 to plus 4 and back inside a week works at every seal strip, every fastener, and every bond between shingle layers. We do that repeatedly through winter and shoulder season. It is why ice and water shield at the eaves and valleys is standard on every roof we install rather than an upsell line, and why cheap felt underlayment is a false economy.

Snow load and ice. Roughly 127 centimetres of snow a year, with measurable cover on the ground about 133 days in an average winter. The bottom three feet of an Edmonton roof takes punishment the rest of it never sees, which is exactly where ice dams form.

Storms are not just a Calgary story. The Insurance Bureau of Canada put insured damage from Edmonton-area storms at about $230 million between May and July of 2026: roughly $80 million from the late-May and early-June flooding and about $150 million from the June 20 to 21 system, with mid-July claims still being counted. June 2026 was also the wettest June in Edmonton's recorded history at 244 millimetres, breaking a record set in 1914.

And prairie sun. Long summer days drive the volatile oils out of asphalt and the shingle gets brittle. It is why a "30-year" shingle realistically gives 20 to 25 here, and why attic ventilation matters so much to roof lifespan.

The upside of an honest Edmonton spec is straightforward: done properly once, with a fully detailed replacement, the roof stops being an annual worry. That is the standard our 10-year written workmanship warranty is measured against.

If hail or wind damaged your roof, the replacement may be an insurance claim rather than an out-of-pocket expense. The difference is worth thousands, and it turns almost entirely on documentation. Note the storm date, photograph what you can safely see from the ground, and get the roof inspected promptly, because damage documented months later is far easier for an adjuster to dispute.

Three things about the current Alberta market are worth knowing before you make a decision on materials:

Deductibles have climbed. Where $1,000 used to be standard, hail deductibles of $2,500 to $5,000 are now common in this province, and some policies apply a percentage of insured value instead of a flat figure.

Replacement cost is no longer automatic. More insurers are moving older roofs onto actual cash value settlement, which depreciates the payout for the age of the roof, once the roof passes roughly fifteen years. On a fifteen-year-old roof that can be more than half the cheque. Alberta homeowners' premiums rose roughly 392 percent between December 2005 and December 2025, and insurers have responded by pushing risk back onto roofs.

Class 4 is doing real work now. Most Alberta insurers discount the dwelling portion of the premium by 15 to 25 percent for an impact-rated roof, and a growing number tie their best hail terms to one. Set the $2,000 to $4,000 upgrade against an annual discount, a $2,500 to $5,000 deductible avoided, and the chance of staying on replacement cost coverage, and the maths has changed considerably in the last few years.

We inspect suspected hail damage for free, photograph and measure it, and give you an honest read on whether a claim is justified, whether you hire us or not. Our full guide to hail damage and insurance claims in Edmonton walks through the whole process. If it turns out to be ordinary wear rather than storm damage, we will tell you that too, because a denied claim helps nobody.