California › San Bernardino County

Re-roof permit checklist — San Bernardino County, California

Assembled from San Bernardino County’s own published permit rules. Every line below is quoted from a city document and linked to it. Nothing here is generated, estimated, or inferred from another jurisdiction.

Do you need a permit?

San Bernardino County requires a permit for a re-roof.

San Bernardino County expressly lists re-roofing among the work that requires a permit, with no residential like-for-like exemption of the sort Maricopa and King counties grant. This is the strictest of the four counties on roofing. The reason is largely fire: much of unincorporated San Bernardino County lies in State Responsibility Area and Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone land where California requires Class A roof assemblies and WUI Chapter 7A compliance, so roof replacement is a code-compliance checkpoint. Roof-mounted and ground-mounted solar are separately listed as permit-requiring work.

Loading the full checklist…

Sources

• reroof — permit rules ↗verified August 2026

Other permits San Bernardino County publishes rules for

Listed because the city publishes a separate rule for each type — not because this project necessarily triggers one. Whether it does depends on your scope of work.

• Deck permit checklist
• Fence permit checklist
• Shed permit checklist
• Water heater permit checklist
• Retaining wall permit checklist
• Electrical work permit checklist
• General building work permit checklist

BuildSpec is a reference, not the authority having jurisdiction. Confirm requirements with San Bernardino County before you build.