Are you worried about hail damage which might have recently impacted your roof? Did your roof begin leaking following a weather event? Have you heard horror stories from others about property damage due to hail? Do you want to arm your home or building from future ravages of hailstorms while potentially lowering your property insurance premiums?  If so, you’ve come to the right place. 

Hail is formed during thunderstorms. Updrafts of air push raindrops into very cold parts of the atmosphere. There, held aloft by these updrafts, the raindrops freeze into hail and then collide with other precipitation to grow bigger and bigger. The largest, officially recorded hailstone fell near Vivian, South Dakota during the summer of 2010. It was approximately 8 inches in diameter. Its circumference was over a foot and a half! The icy monstrocity weighed nearly 2 pounds, six times the weight of a major league baseball. Large hail can travel faster than a pitch by Minnesota Twins’ Sergio Romo or the Brewers’ Josh Hader… up to 100 mph!

While most hailstones are much smaller than the earthly “meteor” that crashed in South Dakota, the damage that hail causes can be severe. Hail is commonly marble-sized and hits ground at about 20-25 miles per hour, enough to cause hail damage to roofs, which happens regularly in northern Wisconsin. Believe us. At Renew Roofing we have seen the ravages of hailstorms many times and we’ve acquired special expertise in assessing and fixing roofs impacted by their assault.

It’s not at all unusual that hail falls during spring and summer months here in places like Green Bay, WI; Hinckley and Forest Lake MN. Hail is different from sleet. Sleet usually forms in the wintertime as a mixture of snow and rain. It isn’t as much of a threat to roof damage caused by hail.