Roof replacement
Fee basis: Flat fee.
Project value on this row: low $8,000, typical $12,000, high $22,000.
City of Des Moines Permit and Development Center (PDC) Permit Fees, New Fees effective 1-1-26, retrieved Sep 1, 2026. The schedule is titled City of Des Moines Permit and Development Center Permit Fees -- New Fees 1-1-26.
These totals are a City of Des Moines Permit and Development Center permit. The city is the City of Des Moines, not West Des Moines and not Polk County.
For a residential roof replacement, a permit is required. The official path is a flat renovation permit.
The official fee band is $154.50 / $154.50 / $154.50. The official typical project value is $12,000.
Listed assumed valuations are $8,000 low, $12,000 typical, and $22,000 high. Walk the typical first.
The renovations to dwellings line is $154.50 flat on the PDC schedule effective 1-1-26. Low and high match that same $154.50 total because the path is flat, so the low fee is $154.50 and the high fee is $154.50.
The $154.50 high is the same total as the $154.50 typical and is not added on top of it. Documented 1,000 / 1,500 / 1,800 sf of roof surface does not change this flat $154.50.
A like-for-like reroof is treated as a dwelling renovation. The schedule has no separate reroof line.
Like-for-like reroof uses the renovations to dwellings line, and that line is the official path. On the official PDC schedule effective 1-1-26, no Iowa state building-permit surcharge is printed, and this note does not add one.
Roof area and job valuation are not inputs to this listed permit total. Job valuation does not drive this fee.
The assumed valuations of $8,000 and $12,000 and $22,000 still produce $154.50 on this flat renovation permit path. A roof of 1,000 sf, a roof of 1,500 sf, and a roof of 1,800 sf each stay on that same renovations to dwellings total.
This note does not invent technology fees, state surcharges, or plan-review add-ons. This note does not invent electrical or plumbing amounts.
This note does not invent a fee beyond the official $154.50 total.
City of Des Moines, not West Des Moines and not Polk County. Official PDC schedule effective 1-1-26: renovations to dwellings $154.50. Like-for-like reroof is a dwelling renovation (no separate reroof line). No Iowa state building-permit surcharge is printed.
City of Des Moines Permit and Development Center Permit Fees -- New Fees 1-1-26 Retrieved Sep 1, 2026.