Steep Roof Pitch Calculator

This roof pitch calculator is a handy tool that will help you quickly assess what is the pitch of your roof of what length of rafters you need for your construction works.

Steep roof pitch calculator.

Pitch is thus the ratio of the rise in inches to a 12 inch run and is often expressed using a semicolon for example 6 12. This is very useful information for many purposes especially for roof framing the slope sometimes called pitch is calibrated on speed squares. After finding out your roof pitch angles you can use the calculator to perform the calculations for you instead of doing them manually. Thus a moderate 6 in 12 roof pitch means that the roof rises 6 inches vertically for every 12 horizontal inches it runs.

See the image below for more explanation on rise run and pitch. A 12 in 12 pitch is a steep 45 degree angle roof. To see how pitch impacts the look of a garage and changes cost click the design center button on our pole barn kits page. Roof pitch refers to the amount of rise a roof has compared to the horizontal measurement of the roof called the run.

Roof pitch calculator results explained slope the slope of a roof is represented as x 12 where x is the number of inches in rise for every 12 inches of run. A a roof with a 6 rise for every 12 run has a 6 per foot or 6 in 12 pitch. We will explain to you how to determine the roof pitch step by step. You can also use this roof slope calculator to recalculate the roof pitch from degrees to percents.