Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Archuleta County, CO?

Archuleta County, Colorado

county

Pagosa Springs, CO

Not required

Not required

Reroofing may proceed without a county permit; however, if structural damage is discovered during the project, the Building Department must be contacted at 970-731-3877 before proceeding with any repairs. Permit applications and information packets are published on the department's website. Electrical and plumbing licensing is handled by the Colorado Electrical Board and the Colorado Examining Board of Plumbers.

Archuleta County enforces the 2015 International Residential Code, International Energy Conservation Code, International Building Code, International Mechanical Code, International Fuel Gas Code, International Existing Building Code, and International Swimming Pool and Spa Code, plus Appendix Q of the 2018 IRC. The 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code takes effect July 1, 2026.

Required — Archuleta County's 2019 building-code resolution (recorded 9/6/2019, reception no. 21905098), Section 2(c) completing IRC Table R301.2(1), prints "Ice Shield Underlayment Required – Yes." About ice & water barrier

Not required — Archuleta County's building-code adopting resolution (recorded September 6, 2019 as reception no. 21905098; adopted September 5, 2019, effective September 9, 2019), which adopts the 2015 International Residential Code with county amendments, was reviewed in full including its complete IRC amendment list; it contains no amendment to IRC R905.2.4 and no impact-resistance or UL 2218 requirement. The companion Revised Archuleta County Amended Building and Safety Code, adopted by Resolution 2019-83 (recorded September 6, 2019 as reception no. 21905099), was also reviewed in full across all eight of its sections, including its Section 6 design criteria; it sets snow, wind, seismic and frost-depth criteria but imposes no impact-resistance requirement. The County's wildfire structure-hardening guidance requires a Class A roof covering or assembly in wildland-urban interface hazard areas, which is a fire classification rather than an impact rating.

Archuleta County's 2019 building-code resolution (recorded 9/6/2019 as reception no. 21905098; adopted September 5, 2019, effective September 9, 2019 — the resolution number itself is not legible on the recorded copy), Section 2(c), completes IRC Table R301.2(1) Climatic and Geographic Design Criteria as follows: "Roof Snow Load – as set forth in Section 6.3.1 of the Archuleta County Amended Building and Safety Code. Wind Speed – as set forth in Section 6.3.2 of the Archuleta County Amended Building and Safety Code. Seismic Design Category – as set forth in Section 6.3.3 of the Archuleta County Amended Building and Safety Code. Subject to Damage by Weathering – Severe. Subject to Damage by Frostline Depth – as set forth in Section 6.4 of the Archuleta County Amended Building and Safety Code. Subject to Damage by Termite – Slight to Moderate. Subject to Damage by Decay – Slight to Moderate. Winter Design Temperature – 15°F (-26°C). Ice Shield Underlayment Required – Yes. Flood Hazards – as set forth in Section 10.1.7 of the Archuleta County Land Use Regulations. Air Freezing Index – 1634 (°F100). Mean Annual Temperature – 42.2°F." Roof snow load, wind speed, seismic category, frostline depth, and flood hazards are set by cross-reference to a separate County code rather than printed as bare numbers in this table; quoted exactly as printed, including the referential items. (The "15°F" Winter Design Temperature was verified by rendering the source PDF to an image and reading it directly — a raw pdftotext extraction of the same page misrenders the degree symbol and drops the leading digit, reading as "150F"; the image confirms "15°F (-26°C).")

6.9% combined for unincorporated Archuleta County (state 2.9% + Archuleta County 4%; no RTD/SCFD/RTA district — Archuleta County, in the San Juan Basin around Pagosa Springs, is outside all three boundaries; no incorporated-town component applies since this record covers only the unincorporated county). Per Colorado Department of Revenue form DR 1002 (rev. 06/19/19, a 2019/2020-vintage publication), Archuleta is state-collected: the State-Collected Colorado County Sales Tax table prints Archuleta County's row as "Archuleta / 4% / 3.33% [service fee] / None [use tax]." The County's own Finance Department page publishes property-tax FAQs but no separate sales-tax-rate statement, so this figure rests on DR 1002 alone; noted here per its own vintage date rather than corroborated against a live county page. Re-verified 2026-08-27 against the January 2026 edition of Colorado Department of Revenue form DR 1002, read from a rendered image of its tables rather than from extracted text: the state, county and city figures above match that edition exactly. Where the text above names the June 19, 2019 revision of DR 1002, that describes the edition the figure was originally taken from and is not a current citation.