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

Eagle County, Colorado (unincorporated)

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Eagle, CO

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Not required

Roof work requires its own permit, separate from other building and technical permits. Roof repairs and replacements must use Class A fire rated materials for the assembly. The county encourages applicants to apply online through the Community Development Self Service portal rather than submit paper applications; roof permits have an estimated review time of 5 to 7 business days depending on scope of work and submittal requirements.

Inspections are available Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm (El Jebel inspections on Monday and Thursday). Requests must be scheduled before 4pm the day prior, and inspectors provide a 1-hour arrival window.

Eagle County enforces the 2021 I-Codes and the 2023 National Electrical Code as described in the Eagle County Building Resolution.

Required — Not separately amended by Eagle County. Section 1.6 of the Eagle County Building Resolution (Amended October 28, 2025), the county's complete itemized amendment list to the 2021 International Residential Code, does not delete or modify R905.2.8.5, so the base IRC drip-edge requirement stands as adopted code. About drip edge

Not required — Section 1.6 of the Eagle County Building Resolution (Amended October 28, 2025), the county's complete itemized amendment list to the 2021 International Residential Code ("THE INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTIAL CODE, 2021 EDITION, IS SPECIFICALLY AMENDED AS FOLLOWS," R101.1 through Appendix AT, closed by its transition into the following International Plumbing Code amendments section), was read in full and contains no provision addressing impact-resistant roofing, UL 2218, Class 4 shingles, or hail. Note: the instrument amends only Section R301.2.3 (Snow Loads) narratively and does not reprint the full Table R301.2(1); no wind speed or ice-barrier fill-in appears anywhere in the document, so those two fields are not earnable from this instrument.

4.4% combined in unincorporated Eagle County (state 2.9% + county 1.5%). Always state-collected ("Eagle County sales and lodging taxes are administered and collected by the State of Colorado" per the County's own page). The county's 1.5% itself is composed of a 1% general-fund/capital portion plus a 0.5% portion (approved by voters in 1996) dedicated to trails and transit. No county-level construction-materials use tax was found on the County's own Finance/Sales-Tax page (the County directs filers to the State for sales-tax administration; a separate Eagle Valley RTA sales tax exists as its own special district, not a county tax, and applies only within specific RTA-boundary areas, not uniformly across all of unincorporated Eagle County). SUB-COUNTY DISTRICT, PARCEL-DEPENDENT: part of unincorporated Eagle County lies inside the Eagle River Fire Protection District, which levies a 0.79% sales tax. The January 2026 edition of Colorado Department of Revenue form DR 1002 describes its boundary as "Areas of Hwy 24 and I-70 in Eagle County including Avon, Edwards, Minturn, and Red Cliff. Excludes Beaver Creek area" -- and Edwards, one of the named communities, is unincorporated. A job inside that district therefore carries 5.19% rather than 4.4%, and one in the excluded Beaver Creek area does not. Several Metropolitan District taxes also sit inside unincorporated Eagle County and each reaches only a portion of it: Arrowhead 5% and Edwards 1% near Edwards, Bachelor Gulch 3.20% near Avon, Eagle Vail 1%, Red Sky Ranch 5.50% near Wolcott, and Two Rivers 4% near Gypsum. All of these turn on the specific address rather than on the county, so none is folded into the headline rate -- confirm the job site against the district boundaries before bidding.