Wilson · Elm City · Stantonsburg · Wilson County
Carolina Trophy Roofs replaces and repairs roofs across Wilson and Wilson County. The four roofs on this page are Wilson jobs finished between April and August 2026, one of them photographed by drone, and all four started the same way: the roof inspected and documented for an insurance claim, then replaced.
Wilson's storm record is mostly wind. Of the 95 roof-relevant events NOAA logged for Wilson County since 2016, 76 were thunderstorm wind, among them an 87-knot gust on May 20, 2022, and the file also holds an EF3 tornado from August 8, 2024. Wind damage hides in creased tabs that lie flat again after the storm, which is why a free inspection walks every slope instead of looking from the yard.
Four Wilson jobs finished between April and August 2026, each placed by town only. The month on each card is when the finished-roof photos were taken, and the text describes only what is in them.
Inspected in May 2026 and finished in August. The house is brick, with a steep roof of hips and valleys, a many-sided bay and a chimney. The drone photos show the new architectural shingles from the front gable, over the bay, and straight down on the whole roof.
Inspected in March 2026 and re-roofed at the start of June. The first photo shows the materials on the driveway: CertainTeed Landmark shingles and TopShield filtered shingle-over ridge vent. The second shows that vent on the new ridge as the cap shingles go on over it.
Inspected in April 2026 and re-roofed at the end of June. The photo is from the main ridge: new gray architectural shingles and ridge caps, with the neighborhood street below.
Inspected in early March 2026 and re-roofed in late April: gray architectural shingles run up to the siding of a front gable, with new boots on the two plumbing vents.
We do not have a Wilson office. Wilson is served from 136 S. Business Ct in Rocky Mount, about 21 miles away in a straight line, and from our Greenville office at 1414 Forbes St. If water is coming in, call (252) 302-2003 at any hour.
Full re-roofs in architectural shingles from GAF, Owens Corning, CertainTeed, Atlas and IKO. The June job above is CertainTeed Landmark, with the ridge vent and cap shingles replaced along with the field shingles.
Wind-lifted and creased shingles, missing tabs, leaks at pipe boots and flashing. For a leak that is active now, call the 24/7 line: we tarp first and repair once the roof is safe to walk.
Wilson County's record has both, often from the same storm. A free inspection checks each slope for creased tabs on the windward side and for bruising and granule loss where hail hit.
We photograph the damage before the adjuster comes, meet them on the roof and see the claim through to the final depreciation payment.
Flat and low-slope roofs, roof coatings and metal roofs for Wilson businesses, churches and property managers.
Storm record · Wilson County
What the public record says about roofs in Wilson 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.
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 Wilson reach into 4 other counties, and those counties do not share Wilson County's record:
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.
Storm damage · Wilson, NC
Wilson sits on the western edge of the coastal plain where spring and summer thunderstorm lines arrive from the west with nothing to slow them down. The county file is a wind file first — most of its entries are measured or estimated thunderstorm gusts — but it also holds a baseball-sized hail record from 2016 and an EF3 tornado from 2024. A roof here has to be checked for both kinds of damage after the same storm: creased and lifted shingles along the windward slopes, and bruised mat and granule loss on the slopes that faced the hail.
The public record backs that up. Between 2016 and 2026, the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database logged 95 roof-relevant storm events in Wilson County: 16 hail, 76 thunderstorm-wind and 3 tornado reports. The largest hail in the file measured 2.00 in. (Baseball) on May 3, 2016. The strongest measured gust was 87 knots on May 20, 2022, in the unit the source records. One entry in the county file reads: “Aug 8, 2024 -- Tornado (EF3) -- $2.00M 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 Wilson homeowner filing a roof claim usually deals with a wind or hail peril, which is where percentage deductibles and depreciation questions come up most. 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 Wilson, 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.