Rachel is a home improvement writer and content editor. In addition to being a contributing writer at Forbes, she writes for small businesses and creative agencies. She uses her home improvement ...

Note also that premium incentives and disincentives for roof types vary widely by company and location. "If you live near a wildfire zone, you pay a lot if your roof is (made of) cedar shakes ...

ABOUT: Most common of all roof types in the U.S. today, asphalt shingles are the roofing material on almost 80 percent of American homes. Asphalt saturates both sides of their paper or fiberglass ...