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A hail front crossing Bent County, Colorado — the weather behind every town page, inspection and claim linked from this index. Storm light over Bent County rooftops — the county whose 143 recorded hail events make.
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One county, 2 towns on this site, and one of Colorado's serious hail records — here is Bent County in brief.
NOAA logged 143 hail events in Bent County from 1995 to 2024, with a largest stone of 4.5 inches. Every town below has its own page — its own ZIPs, data and nearby-town comparisons — and one free number reaches a local pro in any of them, around the clock for emergencies.
Bent County's key figures in one strip — storm history, size, and the towns this site serves within it. The county in numbers: the hail record, the population, the towns covered here, and the seat that keeps its records.
143
Hail events in Bent County, 1995–2024
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
4.5 in
Largest hail recorded in Bent County
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
5,549
Residents of Bent County
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024
2
Bent County towns covered on this page
This service
Las Animas
Bent County seat
Bent County
30 yrs
Of NOAA hail records behind this page
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
2 communities, 2 different roof stories — pick yours for its own hail data, housing numbers and ZIP list.
Hail rarely stops at the shingles. The same storm that bruises a roof in Bent County dents gutters, splits siding and starts leaks, so the six services below are the ones local pros are called for most after a storm here.
Replacement makes sense when dents and cracks spread across several slopes, when granule loss is heavy, or when the roof was already near the end of its life. A pro measures every slope first and talks through materials, Class 4 impact-resistant options and cost factors before any work is booked.
📞 Call NowGutter damage is strong claim evidence, because bent metal records the storm's direction and stone size in a way shingles alone sometimes cannot show. Small runs are often repaired the same visit; long crushed sections are measured and replaced to match the profile already on the house in Bent County.
📞 Call NowYou get a written report you can hand to your adjuster, which separates hail damage from wear, blistering and old repairs that are not storm related. Slope-by-slope hit counts, not impressions, are what the report leads with — the numbers the claim will be argued from on both sides.
📞 Call NowTemporary patches are photographed and kept on file, and the permanent repair builds on the same evidence once the roof is dry enough to work. Emergency leaks are first dried in to stop the water today; the permanent repair is then scheduled and documented for your claim file as well.
📞 Call NowReplaced gutters protect the new roof's edge, the fascia behind it and the foundation below — three payoffs from one straightforward job in Bent County. New gutters are often fitted during roof work, when the crew, materials and claim documentation are already on site and the scaffolding is already up.
📞 Call NowThe wall behind damaged panels is checked for torn wrap and wet sheathing before new panels close it up again and hide whatever the storm let in. Siding damage strengthens a hail claim, because cracks on one elevation help prove the storm's direction and size across the whole property.
📞 Call NowWhy roofs in Bent County live the lives they do: the storm record, the spread of towns under it, the housing those towns hold, and the winter that follows every hail season.
Put the county's record in state context: 143 hail events in Bent County across 30 years, the largest stone 4.5 inches. Las Animas is not an outlier street or an unlucky subdivision — it is one town inside a county-sized pattern that NOAA has been logging since 1995. Roofs here are not occasionally tested by hail; they are on a schedule of tests, and the only choice is whether each test is documented when it happens.
Bent County's communities share one hail climate with local accents: elevation, exposure and the track a cell takes decide which town takes a given storm. The county seat, Las Animas, keeps the records; the NOAA database keeps the storms — 143 of them in 30 years. What varies between towns is mostly the roofs: their ages, materials and how many seasons they have already weathered. Bent County sits inside Hail Alley, the hail corridor that runs along and east of the Front Range.
Across the county's towns, the pattern repeats: older homes with roofs in every stage of life, newer subdivisions with architectural shingles, and barns, shops and outbuildings under metal and older coverings. Owner-occupiers make most of the repair decisions, and the claim route — inspection, documentation, adjuster, scope — is the same in every town, which is why each town page follows the same structure with its own numbers.
Hail is the summer problem; winter writes the second act. The Las Animas station normals give Las Animas about 16.2 inches of snow a year and 150.8 nights at or below freezing. Meltwater from that snow finds every hail crack, freezes in it overnight and prises it wider. Ice dams at the eaves and freeze-thaw in the valleys are why a roof that 'survived' the storm in July can be leaking by February.
Most Bent County roofs are asphalt shingles, and the upgrade conversation here starts with Class 4 impact-resistant shingles, tested against the kind of stones this county has actually recorded. Valleys, eaves and penetrations deserve ice & water shield beneath them, and the county's snow load argues for decking checked at every tear-off. None of that shows from the street — which is why the inspection, not the brochure, decides what a roof in this county actually needs.
Storm season here has a rhythm: the first severe cells arrive in May, the peak runs through June and July, and late storms can still drop damaging hail into September. Roofs in Bent County therefore get inspected on a cycle, not on a hunch — a spring check before the season, a look after any storm that drops stones nearby, and repairs finished before the snow load arrives. It is unglamorous, and it is exactly how roofs here reach their full working life.
The freeze-thaw cycle works meltwater into every hail crack all winter, widening small damage a little more each cold night.
Bent County Snapshot
Largest County Hail: 4.5 in
Share of Colorado's 5.25 in state record · NOAA NCEI 1995–2024
County Hail Events: 143
Against El Paso County's state-high 1,552 · NOAA NCEI 1995–2024
Cities Served In County: 2
Each with its own data page on this site
County Population: 5,549
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimates
County-level answers: the hail record, claims, permits and materials, with town-level detail on each town's own page.
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