Roof Replacement & Repair in Durham, North Carolina
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Straight-line distance from the Rocky Mount office
Durham lies 62.7 miles west of the Carolina Trophy Roofs office in Rocky Mount — a straight line drawn between the office at 136 S. Business Ct and this page's own coordinates (35.994, -78.8986).
Straight-line distance, not drive time — the road is longer, and how long it takes depends on the route.
- Wake Forest 41.0 mi west
- Oxford 50.2 mi north-west
- Raleigh 50.6 mi west
- Cary 58.1 mi west
- Chapel Hill 71.8 mi west
- Pittsboro 80.8 mi west
Storm record · Durham County
Hail is the recurring roof threat in Durham County
What the public record says about roofs in Durham and the rest of Durham County
Of the 122 roof-relevant storm events NOAA logged in Durham County between 2016 and 2026, 15 were hail. 10 of those dropped stones an inch across or larger, which is roughly the size at which hail stops bouncing off an asphalt roof and starts bruising it. The largest on record fell on Mar 14, 2016: Golf Ball, measured at 1.75 in. A further 5 hail events came in under an inch.
Hail damage is the kind you cannot see from the driveway. A stone that size fractures the asphalt mat beneath the surface and knocks the protective granules loose; the shingle keeps its shape and keeps shedding water for a while afterwards, so a hail-struck roof usually looks fine from the ground and fails early instead. The things a homeowner can actually check are granule piles at the bottom of the downspout, and dents in the soft metal on the roof — vent caps, valley flashing, gutter aprons. Those dents matter because soft metal takes an impression at about the same stone size that damages a shingle, so they are the closest thing to a physical record of what hit the house.
The $1,357,000 figure is NOAA's reported property damage for the whole of Durham 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.
Individual events in the Durham County file
- Jul 15, 2016 -- Thunderstorm Wind (50 kt gust) -- $150K property damage reported
- Mar 14, 2016 -- Hail (Golf Ball hail, 1.75 in)
- Feb 24, 2016 -- Thunderstorm Wind (70 kt gust) -- $250K property damage reported
Event descriptions as recorded in the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database.
Recorded events by year
- 10’162016
- 12’172017
- 12’182018
- 8’192019
- 9’202020
- 6’212021
- 18’222022
- 17’232023
- 18’242024
- 11’252025
- 1’262026*
* 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 record next door
The communities nearest Durham reach into 4 other counties, and those counties do not share Durham County's record:
- Raleigh (Wake County) — 457 recorded events; largest hail Softball+ at 2.75 in, Sep 1, 2017; most recent entry May 5, 2025 (Hail)
- Chapel Hill (Orange County) — 137 recorded events; peak recorded gust 50 kt, Feb 24, 2016; most recent entry Apr 29, 2026 (Hail)
- Oxford (Granville County) — 68 recorded events; largest hail Baseball at 2.50 in, Feb 24, 2016; most recent entry Dec 31, 2024 (Hail)
- Pittsboro (Chatham County) — 164 recorded events; peak recorded gust 52 kt, Sep 22, 2021; most recent entry Jul 6, 2025 (Tornado)
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016-2026, Durham 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.
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