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Storm light over Ouray County rooftops — the county whose 3 recorded hail events make it one of Colorado's most claim-active roofing territories. A hail front crossing Ouray County, Colorado — the weather behind every town.
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Ouray County is hail country, and this page is its index: the record, the towns and the way in.
NOAA logged 3 hail events in Ouray County from 1995 to 2024, with a largest stone of 0.88 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.
Ouray 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.
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Hail events in Ouray County, 1995–2024
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
0.88 in
Largest hail recorded in Ouray County
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
5,087
Residents of Ouray County
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024
2
Ouray County towns covered on this page
This service
Ouray
Ouray County seat
Ouray 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 Ouray 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.
Most Ouray County replacements finish in one to two days once materials land, and the crew protects landscaping and clears nails from the yard before they leave. Pros check the deck, fit new underlayment and ice-and-water shield, then install shingles rated for Colorado hail, all in the right order for.
📞 Call NowA pro checks the slope, seams and downspouts, then straightens, reseals or replaces the crushed runs so the whole line drains the way it should again. 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 NowEmergency leaks are first dried in to stop the water today; the permanent repair is then scheduled and documented for your claim file as well. Temporary patches are photographed and kept on file, and the permanent repair builds on the same evidence once the roof is dry enough to work.
📞 Call NowLong runs are measured and formed for the house, so joints sit only at corners and downspouts, where they belong and where they can be sealed properly. When hail crushes long runs beyond straightening, replacement is the honest fix: new sections, correct pitch, sealed corners and downspouts that drain clear.
📞 Call NowSiding damage strengthens a hail claim, because cracks on one elevation help prove the storm's direction and size across the whole property. The 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.
📞 Call NowWhy roofs in Ouray 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.
Start with the record. Ouray County logged 3 hail events in the 30 years from 1995 to 2024 — among the heaviest totals in Colorado — and the largest stone measured 0.88 inches. Those are county figures, and Ouray sits squarely in the storm track that produced them. The storms build over the high country in the afternoon and strengthen as they move, which is why hail here is a recurring season rather than a freak event.
The county seat is Ouray, and the towns on this page run from valley floors to high settlements — every one of them inside the same storm system. Afternoon cells build over the ranges and move; the county's 3 recorded events are the sum of those passages, town by town, year by year. Altitude changes the details — thinner air, stronger sun, deeper winters — but no town in Ouray County sits outside the pattern. Ouray County sits west of the Front Range corridor Coloradans call Hail Alley — but its own recorded 3 events say the risk is real here too.
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.
The climate normals tell the winter half of the story: roughly 173.4 inches of snow a year near Ouray and 178.6 freezing nights, measured at Ouray #2. Snow load sits on hail-weakened decks for weeks. Every thaw sends water into storm damage the summer inspection may have called minor, and every freeze widens it. Ouray roofs do not get to heal between seasons — they get tested.
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.
Ask any Ouray County roofer and they will describe the same calendar: quiet winters, a first hail scare in May, the heavy weeks of June and July, then a tapering August. The smart maintenance calendar mirrors it — gutters cleared and flashing checked in spring, storm damage documented and repaired in summer, and everything watertight before the first freeze. Homeowners who run that cycle replace roofs on their own schedule; everyone else replaces them on the weather's. The freeze-thaw cycle does the slow work in between.
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.
Ouray County Snapshot
Largest County Hail: 0.88 in
Share of Colorado's 5.25 in state record · NOAA NCEI 1995–2024
County Hail Events: 3
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: 5,087
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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