Raleigh · Wake Forest · Wake County
Carolina Trophy Roofs works in Raleigh and across Wake County from our Rocky Mount office, about 51 miles east. On this page: a Wake Forest church re-roofed in IKO Cambridge shingles, a Wake Forest home finished in April 2026, and a Raleigh roof we inspected for an insurance claim.
Wake County has the biggest storm file in our service area by far: NOAA logged 457 roof-relevant events there since 2016, 125 of them hail. The largest stone, 2.75 inches, fell on September 1, 2017, and the May 13, 2019 hail storm carries a $95 million county-wide property-damage entry.
Three Wake County jobs. The cards give the town and the month, and describe only what the photos show; no addresses.
Inspected in November 2024. In January 2025 the roof was dried in with VB Defender Plus synthetic underlayment and the IKO Cambridge bundles were loaded along the ridge (first photo); by March the new dark shingles were on, up to the base of the white steeple (second photo).
First visited in June 2025 and finished in April 2026. The photo looks down the long slope of new gray architectural shingles toward the trees behind the house.
From the inspection of a Raleigh roof for an insurance claim in January 2023. The photos document the worn, streaked shingles around the vent stacks on the upper roof, and a skylight on the lower roof with its flashing.
We do not have a Raleigh office. Wake County is served from our main office at 136 S. Business Ct in Rocky Mount, about 51 miles away in a straight line. Call (252) 302-2003 to set up an inspection.
Leaks at vents, skylights and chimneys, missing and wind-lifted shingles. An active leak gets a tarp first, then the repair.
Tear-off, synthetic underlayment and new architectural shingles from GAF, Owens Corning, CertainTeed, Atlas and IKO, as on the Wake Forest church above.
Wake County has more hail reports than any other county we serve. A free inspection checks every slope and the soft metal for hail hits and photographs them.
Church roofs like the Wake Forest job above, and steeple inspection and repair.
Documentation before the adjuster visits, the adjuster meeting on the roof, and the paperwork through to the depreciation release.
Storm record · Wake County
What the public record says about roofs in Raleigh and the rest of Wake County
Across 2016 to 2026 NOAA logged 457 roof-relevant storm events in Wake County and $113,197,000 in reported property damage — a total that only a handful of severe events can produce. 101 of the county's events are flagged significant in the source data. The split behind the total is 327 thunderstorm wind, 125 hail and 5 tornadoes.
A county-level damage figure is not a guide to what happened at any single address. It is the sum of everything reported across every community in the county, and most of it belongs to a small number of dates. What it does tell a homeowner here is that Wake County has been through storms severe enough to change roofs street by street, and that any roof installed before those dates has been tested by them. The dated entries below are the ones the source singles out.
The $113,197,000 figure is NOAA's reported property damage for the whole of Wake 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 Raleigh reach into 1 other county, and those counties do not share Wake County's record:
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016-2026, Wake 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 · Raleigh, NC
Wake County is the largest county in our service area and its storm file is the largest by a wide margin: hundreds of recorded hail and thunderstorm-wind events across the past decade, including the May 13, 2019 hail storm that produced softball-sized stones and one of the largest property-damage entries in the county file. Raleigh's housing stock ranges from 1920s bungalows to new construction, and each takes storm damage differently — which is why our storm inspections photograph every slope rather than sampling one.
The public record backs that up. Between 2016 and 2026, the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database logged 457 roof-relevant storm events in Wake County: 125 hail, 327 thunderstorm-wind and 5 tornado reports. The largest hail in the file measured 2.75 in. (Softball+) on Sep 1, 2017. The strongest measured gust was 66 knots on Sep 8, 2023, in the unit the source records. One entry in the county file reads: “Sep 8, 2023 -- Thunderstorm Wind (66 kt gust)”.
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.
Raleigh roof claims range from a few hail hits on a single slope to whole-neighbourhood events like May 2019, and the process is the same in both cases. 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 Raleigh, 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.
Commercial · Raleigh, NC
Carolina Trophy Roofs installs and restores low-slope and metal commercial roofs across Raleigh and Wake County: TPO and other single-ply membrane systems, standing-seam and screw-down metal, synthetic roofing, and fluid-applied roof coatings. We are the only manufacturer-trained Ames roof-coating applicator in the region, which matters on a Raleigh flat roof that is sound but ageing — a coating system can restore the membrane without a tear-off and without closing the building.
See our commercial roofing services and roof coating systems, or call (252) 302-2003 to schedule a commercial roof assessment in Raleigh.
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.