How To Tell If You Have Hail Damage On Your Roof

If you see quarter sized hail or larger in your yard call a professional roofer immediately to get on their schedule for an inspection.

How to tell if you have hail damage on your roof.

Most roofing companies offer free inspections. The visual signs of hail damage vary depending on the materials of the roof. Look for bubbling paint where water gets trapped between drywall and paint during a storm. It s important to keep your roof in top condition to avoid structural deterioration that may cause leaks.

Shingles with a granular texture such as those made from asphalt or composite materials may show granular loss that exposes the underlying felt random dents with no perceptible pattern and soft spots on the surface. The round dings in metal are obvious signs of hail damage. When hail hits a roof shingle surface granules get displaced. This creates dark spots on the affected area where the granules have gone missing.

Water stains on ceiling or walls look for any water stains on the ceilings corners especially for signs of roof leakage. However determining whether your roof has sustained damage from a hailstorm may be a little more difficult. You can tell your asphalt shingle roof has hail damage if you see black spots such as in the photos above. The easiest way to tell if you have roof damage is to use our hail damage lookup tool.

Insurance companies will typically accept claims up to a year after an event but of course this depends on the insurer.