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Storm light over Howard rooftops in Fremont County, where afternoon hail cells build fast and the roof takes the worst of every stone that falls.
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Hail crossed Howard — here is what it likely did to your roof, and what to do about it, in one minute.
The county record behind Howard is 84 hail events over 30 years and a maximum stone of 3 inches. Damage at that scale bruises and cracks shingles long before it leaks. A free inspection settles what your roof actually took: test squares, counts, dated photos, and a written view you can hand your insurer. Call the number on this page — the call and the inspection are free.
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Hail rarely stops at the shingles. The same storm that bruises a roof in Howard 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.
You get photos before, during and after the work, plus the paperwork your insurer and any future buyer will ask for when the house changes hands. A pro measures every slope first and talks through materials, Class 4 impact-resistant options and cost factors before any work is booked in Howard.
📞 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. 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 NowThe report separates storm damage from wear and old repairs, which is the same distinction your insurer's adjuster will draw standing on the same roof. Inspections are the cheapest way to know where you stand before a claim deadline runs out, and they cost nothing through one free call here.
📞 Call NowFast repairs stop a small entry point from rotting decking and insulation, which is where a cheap fix quietly turns into a structural bill later. 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 NowWhen hail crushes long runs beyond straightening, replacement is the honest fix: new sections, correct pitch, sealed corners and downspouts that drain clear. 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 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 NowDo not wait for morning. A split shingle or lifted flashing lets every shower straight through, and ceilings, insulation and electrics are taking the damage now. Emergency pros reached here can typically be at a Howard home in 30–60 minutes to dry the roof in. One free call starts it.
Protect Your Rooms Buckets under drips; move what water ruins out of its path.
Photograph Everything Photograph dents, debris and stains now — claims need them later.
Keep Everyone Clear Keep clear of bulging ceilings; switch off power to wet fittings.
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Here is exactly what happens when you call: nothing is sold on the phone, and the decision stays with you throughout.
Nothing about the call commits you to anything. Homeowners use it to get the inspection and the written quote; what happens after those arrive is entirely their decision to make.
Call any time. Tell us what the storm did in Howard — leaks, dents, missing shingles — and where it is worst. The call is free, there is nothing to sign, and you stay in control of everything.
We take your details and the Howard ZIP code, then alert an independent local roofing pro who covers storm work in Fremont County. You are not passed around a call centre or sold a package on the phone.
These are the Howard ZIP codes covered by pros reached through this page. Your ZIP is how the match works: it tells us whose patch the house sits in and which storm records apply to it, so have it ready when you ring.
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Hail does not stop at the Howard line, and neither does cover. These are the nearest towns we serve, with their distances and county hail records — each has its own page, its own data and the same free number, so a neighbour across the county line gets the same help you do.
Straight answers to the questions we hear most from Howard homeowners after a hailstorm — costs, claims, timelines and how the free service works, with nothing dressed up.
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Not all of Colorado hails the same. In Howard, four things stack the odds: how often Fremont County storms, how high the town sits, how old its roofs are, and what the winter does to summer damage. The figures below are this town's, from the sources listed on this page.
Fremont County's official hail record — NOAA's Storm Events Database, 1995 to 2024 — holds 84 events and a maximum stone of 3 inches. Howard 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.
At 7,403 feet, Howard gets the high-country version of every roofing problem. Hail arrives faster through thin air. Sunshine is stronger, so the asphalt under any missing granules ages quickly. And the swing between a warm afternoon and a freezing night is wide — the daily stress that opens hail's hairline cracks a fraction more each cycle, all winter long.
Read the housing numbers as a roofer does: median build year 1976, 65.1% of homes from before 1980, 68.1% owner-occupied. Roofs over that stock are in every condition from new architectural to twice-patched three-tab, and hail grades them without mercy — the same storm that scuffs a five-year-old roof opens a twenty-year-old one. It is why street-by-street, the honest answer is always a count, never a guess.
Winter is when summer's hail sends its bill. The normals for the Salida station put Howard at about 36.7 inches of snow and 201.4 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.
Howard sits in Hail Alley, and its hail is judged against three marks: 1-inch hail (quarter size) cracks older, brittle mats; 1.75-inch hail (golf ball size) breaks most standard shingles outright; and 2-inch-plus hail (tennis ball size) can dent metal and damage the decking itself. Most Howard homes carry asphalt shingles — architectural (dimensional) shingles on the newer builds, 3-tab shingles on the older ones — and the upgrade conversation is Class 4 impact-resistant shingles, tested to the UL 2218 impact rating and often earning an insurance premium discount (Class 4) at renewal. The seasons compound it in Howard: wind-driven hail does the storm-day damage, then UV degradation cooks the exposed asphalt summer after summer, the freeze-thaw cycle prises the cracks wider each winter, and an ice dam backs meltwater under the eaves of north-facing slopes.Howard Roof Risk Snapshot
Largest hail in Fremont County — 3 in
Measured against the largest hail recorded in Colorado: 5.25 inches in Yuma County.
Fremont County hail events — 84 in 30 years
Measured against El Paso County, Colorado's busiest at 1,552 events.
Freeze nights near Howard — 201.4 a year
Measured against a 200-night year.
Yearly snowfall near Howard — 36.7 in
Measured against a 100-inch year.
Howard's roof-risk numbers at a glance: the storm record, the altitude, the housing stock and the winters, sourced as you read. The key numbers for Howard in one place — hail history, elevation, housing and climate, each with its source named underneath.
84
Hail events in Fremont County, 1995–2024
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
3 in
Largest hail recorded in Fremont County
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
7,403 ft
Howard elevation above sea level
USGS National Map
966
Residents of Howard
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024
1976
Median year Howard homes were built
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024
36.7 in
Average yearly snowfall near Howard
NOAA climate normals
Settle in — this guide covers the whole story for Howard: the damage itself, the evidence, the claim, the repair decision and the winters after. It is written from Fremont County's own storm record, not generic roofing advice. It begins with the storm itself: hail grown in a powerful updraft, and the soft metals up top that keep the evidence. It follows the stones onto asphalt and architectural shingles alike.
From the street, a hail-damaged roof in Howard usually looks completely normal — that is the trap. Hail damage lives at close range: round and irregular marks where stones struck, granules knocked away to show dull asphalt, and shingles whose surface feels soft or spongy under a thumb.
Size thresholds depend on the roof, but the working scale in Colorado runs like this. Quarter-size hail, about 1 inch, scuffs new architectural shingles but cracks older, brittle ones. At 1.75 inches — golf ball size — standard shingles break regularly.
A proper inspection is a measurement exercise. The pro chalks a test square — a 10-by-10-foot box — on each slope, marks every hit inside it with chalk, counts them, and photographs the pattern.
Insurers pay for functional damage — harm that shortens the roof's life or lets water in. A bruised mat, a cracked shingle, granule loss down to bare asphalt: functional, all of it, because the roof will now fail years ahead of schedule.
In Colorado, almost always yes: hail is a standard covered peril, and Howard claims are routine business for insurers working the Front Range and plains.
The decision follows the counts. Damage concentrated on one slope of a young roof usually repairs: the affected shingles, flashing and metals are replaced and the roof returns to service.
Plenty of Howard owners first meet their hail damage the following winter, as a ceiling stain. The delay is physical: hail fractures the mat and strips the granules, yet the shingle often stays watertight until the exposed asphalt has cooked through a high-altitude summer — UV on exposed asphalt oxidises and embrittles it — and autumn's freeze-thaw cycles work the cracks open. The storm dates behind claims like these are public record — the hail damage roof help in Fremont County page lists the county's.
Your own part is at ground level. Safe ground-level checks a homeowner can do after a storm: binoculars on the slopes, a look at gutters and downspout splash blocks for granules, photographs of any dents in vents and caps, and a glance at ceilings after heavy rain. Neighbours' experience is a guide, too: the pages for our Cotopaxi page and Hail Damage Roof Repair & Replacement Salida, CO show what the same storms did a few miles away.
The record behind a Howard claim is public: the NOAA / NCEI Storm Events Database logs the storm, the National Weather Service (NWS) issued the warning, the county building department holds the local permit (roofing) rules for the rebuild, and the town's elevation / altitude is part of its weather story. The assembly fails as a system: ice & water shield guards the eaves, flashing guards the joints, roof decking carries the whole build, and gutters clear the water the roof collects — hail that wounds any one of them shortens the working life of the rest. Three practicalities come up in almost every Howard job: the honest roof age (paperwork beats guesses), whether tarping or a fuller temporary dry-in is the right first response tonight, and whether a solar panel detach & reset has to be scheduled into the tear-off. Under and around the shingles, the parts that decide leaks are the synthetic underlayment (or older felt underlayment), the drip edge at the eaves, valley metal where slopes meet, the starter strip at the first course, step flashing and counter flashing at walls and chimneys, and the hip and ridge cap shingles along the peaks. On metal homes, a standing seam metal roof takes the same storms differently — it dents where shingles crack. Openings have their own hail weak points: a ridge vent or a turbine vent (whirlybird) can crack or knock off balance, a pipe boot's rubber seal splits in the sun after a bruising, and every vent and stack on the slope is soft-metal evidence of what the storm actually did. The evidence vocabulary is specific: a test square counted in chalk marks proves bruising that the soft metals corroborate, granules washed into the gutters measure the surface a storm has stripped, and a drone inspection covers the steep slopes nobody should walk. Two claim mechanics decide how the money runs: the insurance adjuster who scopes your roof and writes the loss summary, and the filing window your policy sets for reporting storm damage — miss the second and the first never happens.
Want a Howard pro to check your roof? One free call books the inspection — or, if water is coming in now, go straight to emergency hail damage roof repair in Howard. Call (800) 555-0100 — free, 24/7.
Go deeper on the questions Howard homeowners ask most after a storm — claims, costs, inspections and the repair-or-replace decision, each written for Colorado roofs.
Reviewed By Hamza
Lead Roofing & Storm Restoration Specialist
Hamza is an exterior restoration specialist with deep expertise in hail damage assessment, storm-related leak diagnostics, and impact-resistant roofing installations across high-altitude and severe-weather climates. He works directly with homeowners to identify hidden structural bruising and ensure long-lasting, code-compliant roof repairs.
Updated October 26, 2026
Where does Howard sit among the 272 Colorado cities we serve? These tables rank it on the numbers that decide roof risk — hail history, size, snowfall, housing age and freeze — against every other city on this site.
84 Hail Events Recorded In Fremont County (1995–2024) — 169th Highest Of The 272 Colorado Cities We Serve.
Rank 169 of the 272 Colorado cities we serve · State value: 12512 · Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database 1995-2024
3.0 Inches — Largest Hail Recorded In Fremont County — 115th Highest Of The 272 Colorado Cities We Serve.
Rank 115 of the 272 Colorado cities we serve · State value: 5.25 · Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database 1995-2024
65.1% Of Homes Built Before 1980 — 85th Highest Of The 262 Colorado Cities We Serve.
Rank 85 of the 262 Colorado cities we serve · State value: 39.7 · Source: ACS 2024 5-year via Census Reporter API, accessed 2026-10-26
7403 Ft Elevation — 75th Highest Of The 272 Colorado Cities We Serve.
Rank 75 of the 272 Colorado cities we serve · State value: 6800 · Source: USGS Elevations and Distances in the United States
68.1% Owner-Occupied Homes — 174th Highest Of The 260 Colorado Cities We Serve.
Rank 174 of the 260 Colorado cities we serve · State value: 66.2 · Source: ACS 2024 5-year via Census Reporter API, accessed 2026-10-26
Tick what you can see from the ground in Howard — no ladder, no climbing. Three or more of these signs after a storm means the roof above them almost certainly took functional damage, and a free inspection is the sensible next step before the claim window starts shrinking.
