Roof Replacement & Repair in Elm City, North Carolina
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Straight-line distance from the Rocky Mount office
Elm City lies 14.8 miles south 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 (35.8007, -77.8597).
Straight-line distance, not drive time — the road is longer, and how long it takes depends on the route.
- Rocky Mount 4.6 mi south
- Sharpsburg 8.3 mi south
- Nashville 10.7 mi west
- Spring Hope 13.7 mi west
- Wilson 21.0 mi south
- Bailey 24.7 mi south-west
- Black Creek 26.7 mi south
- Lucama 29.1 mi south-west
Storm record · Wilson County
Hail is the recurring roof threat in Wilson County
What the public record says about roofs in Elm City and the rest of Wilson County
Of the 95 roof-relevant storm events NOAA logged in Wilson County between 2016 and 2026, 16 were hail. 14 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 May 3, 2016: Baseball, measured at 2.00 in. A further 2 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 $2,881,000 figure is NOAA's reported property damage for the whole of Wilson 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 Wilson County file
- Aug 8, 2024 -- Tornado (EF3) -- $2.00M property damage reported
- May 20, 2022 -- Thunderstorm Wind (87 kt gust) -- $100K property damage reported
- Sep 17, 2018 -- Tornado (EF0) -- $250K property damage reported
Event descriptions as recorded in the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database.
Recorded events by year
- 6’162016
- 4’172017
- 1’182018
- 16’192019
- 6’202020
- 10’212021
- 20’222022
- 18’232023
- 4’242024
- 9’252025
- 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 Elm City reach into 2 other counties, and those counties do not share Wilson County's record:
- Rocky Mount (Nash County) — 117 recorded events; largest hail Golf Ball at 1.75 in, Apr 7, 2022; most recent entry May 5, 2025 (Hail)
- Sharpsburg (Edgecombe County) — 57 recorded events, including 6 tornadoes; most recent entry May 13, 2025 (Tornado)
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016-2026, Wilson 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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