Washington · Chocowinity · Belhaven · Beaufort County
Washington is about 18 miles from our Greenville office in a straight line. The four roofs on this page are from Washington, Chocowinity and Belhaven, finished between September 2025 and May 2026.
Beaufort County sits on the Pamlico, inside North Carolina's coastal area. NOAA logged 91 roof-relevant storm events there since 2016: 66 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail reports (every one of them an inch or larger) and 6 tornadoes. Its record is further down this page.
Four insurance-claim re-roofs in Beaufort County. Each card gives the town and the month the finished-roof photos were taken, and describes what they show. No streets, no house numbers.
Inspected in January 2026 and re-roofed in early May. The first photo is the long main roof dried in with VB Defender Plus synthetic underlayment, chalk lines snapped across it. The second is the same roof as the gray architectural shingles go on, the crew working up toward the ridge.
Inspected in February 2026 and re-roofed at the end of May. The photo is taken at a hip: brown-blend architectural shingles, the cap shingles running up the hip and a ridge vent on the short ridge, with the trees and water behind the house.
Inspected in October 2025 and finished in mid-January 2026. Gray architectural shingles cover the main roof and both dormers; the photos, taken from the ridge, look out over the water on one side and down the driveway on the other.
Inspected at the end of June 2025 and finished at the start of September. The new light gray architectural shingles run around two skylights, each set in its own metal flashing.
We do not have a Washington office. Beaufort County is served from 1414 Forbes St in Greenville, about 18 miles away in a straight line, and from our main office at 136 S. Business Ct in Rocky Mount. For an active leak call (252) 302-2003, answered 24/7.
Leaks, lifted and missing shingles, and flashing that has let go around chimneys, skylights and walls. An active leak gets a tarp first, then a repair once the roof is safe to walk.
Tear-off, synthetic underlayment and new architectural shingles, as on the Washington job above, with skylights and dormers flashed into the new roof rather than patched around.
Wind off the water lifts shingles along the eaves and rakes first. A free storm inspection walks every slope and photographs what it finds, so you know where you stand before you file.
Beaufort County is inside North Carolina's coastal area, where the IBHS FORTIFIED Roof standard matters most. Carolina Trophy Roofs is a FORTIFIED Certified Roofer.
Metal roof installation and repair for Washington homes, waterfront houses and outbuildings.
Storm record · Beaufort County
What the public record says about roofs in Washington and the rest of Beaufort County
Between 2016 and 2026 NOAA logged 91 roof-relevant storm events in Beaufort County: 66 thunderstorm wind, 19 hail and 6 tornadoes. The strongest straight-line gust on file is 61 kt, on Jun 3, 2022.
Tornado damage is different in kind from everything else in this record. It is narrow — a track a few hundred yards wide can take the roofs off one street and leave the next street untouched — and inside the track the failure is structural rather than cosmetic: decking lifted off the rafters, whole roof planes removed, debris driven through what is left. For the far larger number of homes that sit outside the track, the damage is the same physics as any severe-wind event: pressure at the edges lifting tabs along the eaves and rakes, ridge caps displaced, and impact marks from debris carried out of the track. Both are worth looking at after a tornado-producing system crosses the county, and the dated entries below say when those systems came through.
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 Washington reach into 4 other counties, and those counties do not share Beaufort County's record:
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016-2026, Beaufort 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.
FORTIFIED on the coast · Beaufort County
Beaufort County is in North Carolina’s CAMA coastal area — why the standard keeps coming up on roofs in Washington
Wind is 66 of the 91 roof-relevant events NOAA logged in Beaufort County between 2016 and 2026, against 19 hail events and 6 tornadoes. The strongest gust in the file is 61 kt, measured on Jun 3, 2022.
At the FORTIFIED Roof level the standard is five requirements: a sealed roof deck, ring-shank deck attachment in an enhanced nailing pattern, a wider drip edge with a fully adhered starter, a covering carrying the required wind rating, and attic vents tested against wind-driven rain. All five are settled while the roof is stripped and invisible the day after, which is why the standard turns on photographs of concealed work rather than on how a finished roof looks from the driveway.
FORTIFIED is a voluntary resilience construction standard published by IBHS — a way of building a roof and documenting how it was built, not a warranty, a claims service, or a promise about any storm. Carolina Trophy Roofs is a FORTIFIED certified roofer: we build to the standard and photograph the concealed work. The evaluator has to be a separate party from the installing roofer, and IBHS issues the designation after reviewing what that evaluator submits.
How a FORTIFIED roof is built and verified in Eastern North Carolina
Counts from the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016-2026, Beaufort County. Requirements as published by IBHS.
Storm damage · Washington, NC
Washington sits where the Tar River widens into the Pamlico, and Beaufort County's file shows what that open water brings: mostly thunderstorm wind, six tornado reports, and hail that, when it falls here, has been an inch or larger every time. Waterfront roofs take the wind first, along the eaves and rakes that face the river.
The public record backs that up. Between 2016 and 2026, the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database logged 91 roof-relevant storm events in Beaufort County: 19 hail, 66 thunderstorm-wind and 6 tornado reports. The largest hail in the file measured 1.75 in. (Golf Ball) on May 13, 2019. The strongest measured gust was 61 knots on Jun 3, 2022, in the unit the source records. One entry in the county file reads: “Jun 3, 2022 -- Thunderstorm Wind (61 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.
Beaufort County is inside the coastal area, so the first question on a Washington roof claim is which policy and which deductible apply: homeowners, a separate windstorm policy, or a named-storm deductible. 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 Washington, 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.