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A hail front crossing Garfield County, Colorado — the weather behind every town page, inspection and claim linked from this index. Storm light over Garfield County rooftops — the county whose 19 recorded hail events make.
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One county, 4 towns on this site, and one of Colorado's serious hail records — here is Garfield County in brief.
NOAA logged 19 hail events in Garfield County from 1995 to 2024, with a largest stone of 1.5 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.
Garfield 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.
19
Hail events in Garfield County, 1995–2024
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
1.5 in
Largest hail recorded in Garfield County
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
62,479
Residents of Garfield County
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024
4
Garfield County towns covered on this page
This service
Glenwood Springs
Garfield County seat
Garfield County
30 yrs
Of NOAA hail records behind this page
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
4 communities, 4 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 Garfield 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. You get photos before, during and after the work, plus the paperwork your insurer and any future buyer will ask for when.
📞 Call NowFixing the gutter line also protects siding, walkways and the soil line, which all suffer when roof water dumps in the wrong place every storm. Dents along a run are photographed before any straightening — once the metal is repaired, the evidence of the storm's size goes with it.
📞 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 Garfield County. Undersized or sagging old lines are upgraded at the same time, so heavy Front Range downpours stop overwhelming the system every single summer storm.
📞 Call NowPhotos of cracked siding, taken before any cleanup, are some of the simplest evidence a homeowner can hand an adjuster after a Colorado hailstorm. A pro matches the profile and colour as closely as the product lines allow, replaces the broken panels and checks the wrap and flashing behind them.
📞 Call NowWhy roofs in Garfield 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.
Garfield County's official hail record — NOAA's Storm Events Database, 1995 to 2024 — holds 19 events and a maximum stone of 1.5 inches. Carbondale roofs live under that record. Severe cells ride the same afternoon pattern most springs and summers, and the county's totals put it in the front rank of Colorado hail country, which shapes everything from shingle choice to insurance deductibles here.
Garfield 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, Glenwood Springs, keeps the records; the NOAA database keeps the storms — 19 of them in 30 years. What varies between towns is mostly the roofs: their ages, materials and how many seasons they have already weathered. Garfield County sits west of the Front Range corridor Coloradans call Hail Alley — but its own recorded 19 events say the risk is real here too.
Roofs here are as varied as the towns: farmhouses and ranch buildings, mountain homes built for snow, subdivisions of architectural shingles near the seat. What they share is exposure — the same hail, the same sun, the same freeze-thaw winters — and the same advice after a storm: document early, count honestly, and let the evidence carry the claim.
Winter is when summer's hail sends its bill. The normals for the Glenwood Spgs #2 station put Carbondale at about 38.9 inches of snow and 173.5 nights below freezing a year: load on the deck for weeks, meltwater hunting for every crack the stones left, ice prising at the eaves. A roof can honestly 'survive' a June storm and be leaking by February — the seasons here work as a team.
Materials earn their keep differently at this elevation. Standard asphalt shingles are the baseline; Class 4 impact-resistant shingles buy real odds against the next big stone, and some insurers price that in. Underneath, ice & water shield at the eaves guards the freeze line, while starter strips and closed valleys handle the wind-driven rain that rides in with hail. Add the county's snow load on top and the specification nearly writes itself — the pro's job is matching it to your roof's pitch, age and exposure.
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 Garfield 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.
An ice dam forms when meltwater refreezes at the cold eave and creeps back under shingles — a winter leak that starts on a warm roof. The freeze-thaw cycle works meltwater into every hail crack all winter, widening small damage a little more each cold night.
Garfield County Snapshot
Largest County Hail: 1.5 in
Share of Colorado's 5.25 in state record · NOAA NCEI 1995–2024
County Hail Events: 19
Against El Paso County's state-high 1,552 · NOAA NCEI 1995–2024
Cities Served In County: 4
Each with its own data page on this site
County Population: 62,479
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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