Clayton · Benson · Pine Level · Johnston County
Carolina Trophy Roofs replaces and repairs roofs in Clayton and across Johnston County, from our Rocky Mount office about 45 miles east. The three jobs on this page are a Clayton re-roof, a Pine Level ranch and a standing-seam metal roof in Benson.
Johnston County's storm file is the largest wind file in our area outside Wake: NOAA logged 178 roof-relevant events there since 2016, 161 of them thunderstorm wind, and one wind event on August 15, 2019 carries a $25 million county-wide property-damage entry. The record is further down this page.
Three insurance-claim jobs in Johnston County, one shingle, one mid-tear-off and one metal. Towns only; no streets, no house numbers.
Inspected in January 2025 and finished at the end of March. The roof is red standing-seam metal: the first photo runs up the new ridge cap, the second shows the panels meeting the brick chimney and a pipe boot set into the metal.
Inspected in October 2024 and re-roofed in mid-November. Gray architectural shingles with a ridge vent along each ridge, photographed from the roof with the fields behind the house.
Inspected in March 2023 and re-roofed at the start of June. The photo was taken mid-job: the old shingles off, synthetic underlayment covering the deck and bundles of new shingles staged along the ridge while the crew starts at the eave.
We do not have a Clayton office. Johnston County is served from our main office at 136 S. Business Ct in Rocky Mount, about 45 miles away in a straight line. Call (252) 302-2003 to book an inspection; the line is answered 24/7.
Tear-off, synthetic underlayment and new architectural shingles with ridge ventilation, as on the Clayton and Pine Level jobs above.
Wind-lifted and missing shingles, leaks at vents and chimneys. An active leak gets a tarp first, then the repair.
Standing-seam metal roofs like the Benson job above, plus repair of leaking metal roofs on homes and outbuildings.
Most of Johnston County's storm record is wind. A free inspection photographs every slope; we meet the adjuster and follow the claim to the final payment.
Low-slope and metal roofs and roof coatings for Clayton and Smithfield businesses and churches.
Storm record · Johnston County
What the public record says about roofs in Clayton and the rest of Johnston County
161 of the 178 roof-relevant events NOAA recorded in Johnston County between 2016 and 2026 were thunderstorm wind. Hail accounts for 13. The strongest gust in the file is 50 kt, measured on Apr 28, 2016. For completeness, the largest hail the county has on record is Ping Pong Ball at 1.50 in, on May 3, 2016 — a single day, not a pattern.
Wind does not damage a roof the way hail does, and it does not damage the same parts of it. Wind works on the edges. Uplift concentrates along the eaves, the rake edges and the ridge, where a shingle's sealant strip is the only thing holding the tab down; once one tab breaks its seal the course above loses its anchor and the failure runs along the line. That is why wind damage tends to appear as a clean run of lifted or missing tabs at a perimeter rather than as scattered marks across the middle of a slope. On a roof in this county the places worth looking at first are the ridge caps, the first two courses above the gutter, the rake edge on the side the weather comes from, and the metal flashing where the roof meets a wall or a chimney.
The $26,592,000 figure is NOAA's reported property damage for the whole of Johnston County from these storms, 2016–2026 — a county-wide reporting total. It is not the cost of a roof, and it is not an amount paid to any property owner.
Event descriptions as recorded in the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database.
* 2026 is a partial year — the record runs to the most recent update of the source, not to the end of the year, so its bar is not comparable with the others. A year showing zero had no recorded hail, tornado or thunderstorm-wind event in this county.
The communities nearest Clayton reach into 2 other counties, and those counties do not share Johnston County's record:
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016-2026, Johnston County (U.S. Government work, public domain). Counts cover roof-relevant event types only — hail, tornado and thunderstorm wind. Records are county-level; NOAA does not log these events by street address.
Storm damage · Clayton, NC
Clayton's county record is a wind record: nearly all of Johnston County's entries are thunderstorm wind, including a single August 2019 event with one of the largest property-damage figures in any county we serve. Hail is less common here than in Wake County next door. On a Clayton roof, storm damage mostly means creased and lifted tabs and shingles missing from the windward slopes.
The public record backs that up. Between 2016 and 2026, the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database logged 178 roof-relevant storm events in Johnston County: 13 hail, 161 thunderstorm-wind and 4 tornado reports. The largest hail in the file measured 1.50 in. (Ping Pong Ball) on May 3, 2016. The strongest measured gust was 50 knots on Apr 28, 2016, in the unit the source records. One entry in the county file reads: “Aug 15, 2019 -- Thunderstorm Wind (50 kt gust) -- $25.00M property damage reported”.
Free storm inspection
Every slope walked and photographed — hail bruising, wind creases, lifted flashing, soft-metal dents — and the findings written up so you can read them.
Emergency tarping
Open roof covered to stop water entering while the claim and the permanent repair are arranged. Call (252) 302-2003 any hour.
Repair or replacement
GAF, Owens Corning, CertainTeed, Atlas and IKO systems installed by a certified crew, with the option of building the new roof to the FORTIFIED standard.
The full process — what to do in the first hour, what an inspection looks for, and the storm profile for all six counties we serve most — is on our storm damage roof repair guide for Eastern North Carolina.
A Clayton roof claim is usually a wind claim, and the storm date on the claim should be the date of the wind event, not the day the leak showed up. The North Carolina Department of Insurance says every homeowners policy in the state requires you to give prompt notice of a loss, make reasonable emergency repairs and keep the receipts, and that the insurer should acknowledge receipt of your claim within 30 days. Carolina Trophy Roofs documents the damage, meets the adjuster on your roof in Clayton, and handles the claim paperwork from the first photo to the final invoice. Read the step-by-step North Carolina roof insurance claims guide for deductibles, depreciation, deadlines and what to do if a claim is denied.
For deductibles, depreciation and deadlines in more detail, see the North Carolina roof insurance claims guide.
We inspect the whole roof, photograph what we find and tell you whether you have a claim, a repair or nothing to worry about. Call (252) 302-2003 or book online. Want a number before anyone visits? The instant estimate gives a price range for your roof in about a minute.