Home Service areas Cedar City
Roof Repair, Restoration and Replacement in Cedar City, Utah
Cedar City sits at about 5,600 feet, nearly 2,700 feet higher than St. George, with cold nights, hot days and real winter. This is a service area, not an office.
High desert: big swings between day and night
NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the Cedar City airport station (about 5,586 feet) record about 11.0 inches of precipitation a year, an annual average high of about 65.8°F and low of about 34.8°F, about 169 days a year with a low at or below 32°F, and about 44 days with a high of 90°F or more. That is a daily temperature swing of about 31°F on average and far more freezing nights than St. George (about 63). A roof here expands and contracts more often and sees both UV and ice; see why Northern Utah asphalt roofs age faster and ice dams and freeze-thaw on Northern Utah roofs.
Cedar City’s published building standards
Cedar City’s Building Design Standards list ground snow load per Utah State University’s map, roof snow load per the design professional, a wind speed of 90 mph with a 115 mph gust, seismic zone D1, exposure B and a 30-inch frost depth. St. George, down the valley, lists a 21 psf ground snow load and a 12-inch frost line in its codified table. The two cities are close enough on a map that people assume they match; they do not.
Storms and newer housing
In July 1996 the Deseret News quoted the National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office saying that Iron and Washington counties “got hit pretty hard” by storm rain as tropical moisture moved through. The ACS median home in Cedar City was built in 1999; about 47% of its 13,572 housing units were built in 2000 or later, about 23% before 1980, and about 57% of occupied homes are owner-occupied (about 43% rent). Newer roofs raise inspection and repair questions more than restoration ones, as we explain in how to tell if your roof is a rejuvenation candidate.
Repair, restore, or replace
- Repair for flashing, boots and wind or storm damage.
- GoNano restoration may suit an aging asphalt roof that is still sound. Not every roof qualifies.
- Replacement when a roof has failed. See questions to ask a Utah roofing contractor.
Our roof services
- Roof repair
- GoNano roof restoration (for qualifying roofs only)
- Roof replacement
- Storm damage help
Nearby service areas
See the Iron County entry on our Utah service area list.
Related reading
- why Northern Utah asphalt roofs age faster
- ice dams and freeze-thaw on Northern Utah roofs
- how to tell if your roof is a rejuvenation candidate
- questions to ask a Utah roofing contractor
Cedar City is a service area for The NuRoof Guys, not a local office or branch. Call 385-383-8479 and we will tell you whether we can help. Utah Contractor License #14225732-5501. Authorized GoNano installer. Local figures on this page come from the sources below; percentages marked “by our arithmetic” are our calculation from Census tables and are not NuRoof results.
Sources
- American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure), B25034 and B25035, via Census Reporter
- U.S. Census Bureau 2024 Gazetteer Files (land area)
- NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020 (annual/seasonal station files)
- Cedar City, Building Design Standards
- St. George City Code § 9-10-1, Residential Code Adopted (Table R301.2(1) values)
- Deseret News, “Mother Nature gives Utah taste of her thunderous fury” (July 17, 1996)
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