Roofing in Albuquerque, NM
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Key numbers for Albuquerque
A plain guide to replacing a roof in the Albuquerque, NM Metro Area area: what it costs, whether a tear-off needs a permit, what the local weather does to a roof, and how insurance treats a claim. Every figure links to its source.
What drives roofing work here
An arid outlier. This metro sees the least snow of any cold-adjacent market here and almost no hail relative to the eastern metros, so roofs are not replaced on a weather clock. Housing is newer - median build year 1985, only 3.2% pre-1940 - and 8.1% of units are mobile homes, which is a materially different roofing job.
Highlights
- What the regional price index actually measures SOURCED
- BEA Regional Price Parity (all-items cost-of-living index; 100 = national average), not a construction-specific index. Albuquerque, NM Metro Area scored 95.546 in 2024, the latest observation. Applied only as a labelled general-cost proxy - it measures the whole basket a household buys, not the price of a square of shingles. fred.stlouisfed.org
- Dominant era of housing stock SOURCED
- 2000s is the largest single vintage bucket at 17.5% of the metro's 401,720 housing units (ACS 2024 5-year, table B25034). api.censusreporter.org
- Licensing authority SOURCED
- New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Construction Industries Division, under the Construction Industries Licensing Act (14.6.6 NMAC). rld.nm.gov
- Whether a roofing-specific license is required SOURCED
- Yes, and New Mexico names it. GS-21 (Roofing) is a specialty classification of the Construction Industries Division covering installation, alteration and repair of roof systems in asphalt, pitch, tar, sealants, felt, shakes, shingles, roof tile, slate and urethane, plus gutters and downspouts. It requires two years of foreman-level experience. A GB-2 residential classification also covers roofing when limited to residences of not more than four family units. rld.nm.gov
- Adopted building code edition SOURCED
- New Mexico Residential Code 2021, which adopts the IRC 2021 with state amendments. The adopted edition sets the reroofing rules a tear-off has to meet, so it is not carried across from a neighbouring state. up.codes
- Typical weather-driven scheduling constraint SOURCED
- No month here has a normal daily high below 40F (NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 daily normals at Albuquerque International Sunport), so the cold-weather sealing constraint that governs cold-climate re-roof scheduling does not apply. What delays work in this metro is rain rather than cold - shingles cannot be laid on a wet deck. ncei.noaa.gov
- Peak roofing season locally SOURCED
- Every month has a normal daily high of 40F or above at Albuquerque International Sunport (NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 daily normals), so unlike a cold-climate metro there is no season in which asphalt simply cannot be sealed. Work is year-round, and demand spikes follow storms rather than the calendar. ncei.noaa.gov
- Average annual snowfall in inches SOURCED
- 7.9 inches per year on average, measured at Albuquerque International Sunport (NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 Monthly Climate Normals). ncei.noaa.gov
- Average annual freeze-thaw cycles SOURCED
- About 96 freeze-thaw days a year at Albuquerque International Sunport. Counted from NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 daily climate normals as the number of days in a normal year whose normal low is below 32F and normal high is above it — a day the roof surface crosses freezing in both directions. It is a climatology, not a tally of observed events. Freeze-thaw is the quieter half of cold-climate roof wear: it is the repetition rather than the depth of cold that does the damage. ncei.noaa.gov
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