Building Permit Fees in Durham, NC (2026)

City of Durham fee schedule (Ordinance 15981 / City-County Inspections; still posted), retrieved Sep 1, 2026. The schedule is the City-County Inspections schedule under Ordinance 15981, revised August 2, 2022, and still posted.

The City-County of Durham Building & Safety Department issues this City of Durham permit. This is the City of Durham, not Chapel Hill and not unincorporated Durham County.

For a residential reroof on this path, a permit is required. The official fee band is $75 / $75 / $75.

The low fee, the typical fee, and the high fee are each $75. The typical project value is $12,000.

The job values used for this fee are $8,000 low, $12,000 typical, and $22,000 high. Walk the typical first.

The $12,000 typical residential reroof uses the flat residential reroofing line, so the permit fee is $75. That published miscellaneous line is residential reroofing at a flat $75.

No add-on lines are listed for this path, so $75 is the whole listed permit fee. Low and high match because the $8,000 low job and the $22,000 high job use the same flat residential reroofing line, so the low fee is $75 and the high fee is $75.

The $75 high is the same total as the $75 typical and is not a second charge. Those job values of $8,000 and $12,000 and $22,000 do not change the fee.

Roof area is not an input to this listed permit total. Documented roof sizes of 1,000 / 1,500 / 1,800 sq ft do not change the $75.

State law (N.C.G.S. 160D-1110) exempts some like-for-like residential reroofs from a building permit. This page uses the published $75 reroof fee rather than a $0 exemption, so you are not surprised if the city charges $75.

Confirm the fee with the City-County of Durham Building & Safety Department. This page does not state a separate plan-review fee, a technology fee, or a structural roof fee for this path.

This page does not invent plan-review add-ons. This page does not invent technology fees.

This page does not invent a fee beyond the official $75.

• Typical 3-ton (36,000 BTU) like-for-like split = $65.00.

Low = $65.00. High = $65 + subsequent inspection $50 = $115.00.

Typical/low/high = $100.00. Documented 200/320/400 sf does not change this flat.

Typical/low/high $15,000/$35,000/$75,000 all use the $10,001+ interior renovation bracket = $250 + $125 plan review = $375.00. Typical-job spec 200 sf does not change this valuation bracket.