Roofing for Wildwood homes: replacement, leaks and storm damage. In Wildwood, 81% of the 13,391 homes were built before 2000. Any permit the job needs is ours to pull.
Wildwood runs to about 66.68 square miles and roughly 35,417 people. It sits about 25 miles west of downtown St. Louis. The community dates back to 1995. We cover ZIP codes 63038, 63040, 63005, 63011, 63021, 63025 and 63069.
No completed roof in Wildwood is logged in our job records yet.
Wildwood incorporated in 1995 by consolidating eleven historic unincorporated hamlets: Melrose, Hollow, Orrville, Westland Acres, Kelpe, Monarch, Glencoe, Pond, Fox Creek, Grover and Centaur, according to the Wildwood Historical Society. Its housing mixes large-lot newer subdivisions with older pockets in those former hamlets.
We work across Wildwood rather than one corner of it — Melrose, Hollow, Orrville, Westland Acres, Kelpe, Monarch, Glencoe, Pond, Fox Creek and Grover included. Age and construction change between them, which is why we look before we quote.
The Big Chief Restaurant, a remnant of a 1928 Route 66 tourist complex, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It is an individual listing rather than a district.
Housing from this stretch in Wildwood sits on plywood or OSB decking and was largely first roofed with three-tab shingles. Most are on their second covering by now. The things worth checking are the penetrations rather than the field: pipe boots from this era are the single most common leak we trace, because the rubber collar splits long before the shingles wear out. Ridge venting was inconsistent through these years, and OSB that has been damp for a season goes soft in a way plywood does not — you find it with your feet, not from the ground.
The Census Bureau counts 13,391 homes in Wildwood, with a median year built of 1992. 273 of them (2%) went up before 1940 — 32nd of 48 places on this site for pre-1940 share — and 2,566 (19%) in 2000 or later. The 1990s were the busiest decade, adding 5,087 of today's homes (38%). That is below St. Louis County's 10%.
The rule of thumb from Missouri's Department of Commerce and Insurance is a useful life of usually about 25 years for a roof. On that yardstick the 10,825 homes in Wildwood built before 2000 (81%) have outlived at least one roof, and 7% (910 homes) go back before 1970, two roof lives and more. Homes from the 2000s (1,823 in Wildwood) are reaching their first replacement, while the 743 built since 2010 are mostly still on the roof they were built with.
By building type: 12,278 detached houses (92%), 235 attached (2%). 473 homes (4%) sit in two- to nine-unit buildings and 370 (3%) in buildings of ten units or more, where a resident rarely gets to choose the roofer. 11,800 of 12,851 occupied homes (92%) are lived in by their owners. With houses like these, the jobs we expect most are first replacements on 2000s builder-grade shingles.
| Built | Homes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before 1940 | 273 | 2% | |
| 1940s | 185 | 1% | |
| 1950s | 215 | 2% | |
| 1960s | 237 | 2% | |
| 1970s | 1,151 | 9% | |
| 1980s | 3,677 | 27% | |
| 1990s | 5,087 | 38% | |
| 2000s | 1,823 | 14% | |
| 2010s | 680 | 5% | |
| 2020 or later | 63 | 0% |
Census ACS 2020–2024, tables B25034, B25035, B25024 and B25003: 13,391 homes, 12,851 occupied. Survey estimates.
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center logged 11 reports of hail 1 inch or larger within 5 miles of Wildwood’s center from 2016 through 2025, on 6 different days. 6 of them were 1.75 inches or larger. The largest, 2 inches, came on April 1, 2024, about 3 miles west of the center. The most recent was 1 inch on May 16, 2025. A report needs someone to see the hail and send it in, so the count is a floor, not a full tally.
| Latest reports | Size | From center |
|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2025 | 1 inch | 3.2 mi N |
| May 16, 2025 | 1 inch | 3.2 mi N |
| May 16, 2025 | 1.75 inches | 3.2 mi N |
| May 16, 2025 | 1.75 inches | 3.2 mi N |
| May 16, 2025 | 1.5 inches | 3.2 mi N |
If one of those storms crossed your street and nobody has been on the roof since, a storm inspection photographs what it did.
Wildwood publishes no rule either way on a like-for-like re-roof, so we ask the building department before we start and pull whatever it wants.
Wildwood does not publish the code edition it currently enforces, so this page does not name one. Editions across the metro run from the 2006 IRC to the 2024 IRC — worth asking any contractor which one they are building to.
We could not find a published number for the building department, so this page does not print one. Wildwood does not publish the building official's name, so this page does not name one. Plenty of sites will show you one anyway. The department page is here.
Wildwood shares the metro's figures: 115 mph design wind, 20 psf ground snow. The code guide explains both.
Wildwood borders Chesterfield, Clarkson Valley, Ellisville, Eureka, Pacific and Franklin County. Our pages for them:
Also in St. Louis County:
| City | Re-roof permit | Code | Median built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wildwood | Not published | Not published | 1992 |
| Chesterfield | Not published | 2015 IBC / 2015 IRC | 1982 |
| Ellisville | Not published | 2015 IRC | 1983 |
| Eureka | Not published | 2018 IRC | 1999 |
| Pacific | Not published | Not published | 1985 |
| Affton | Conditional | 2015 IRC | 1958 |
| Ballwin | Yes | 2015 I-Codes (2024 I-Codes proposed for 2026) | 1976 |
All 21 St. Louis County cities side by side →
Wildwood publishes no rule on it. We ask the building department first and pull whatever it requires.
Older than most people guess: the Census puts 81% of Wildwood's homes before 2000 and 7% before 1970, with a median year built of 1992 (2020–2024 estimates). A roof usually lasts about 25 years, so the deck and the layers get checked before any quote.
Yes. The most recent report of hail 1 inch or larger within 5 miles of Wildwood's center was 1 inch on May 16, 2025, one of 11 such reports from 2016 through 2025.
Not yet: no completed roof in Wildwood is in our job records, so this page shows no job count.
Researched 2026-09-09; housing, Census ACS 2020–2024; hail, NOAA SPC. Sources: ecode360.com · www.cityofwildwood.com · en.wikipedia.org · wildwoodhistoricalsociety.org · www.cityofwildwood.com · www.city-data.com · data.census.gov · www.spc.noaa.gov. Rules and staff change; check with the jurisdiction.
