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A hail front crossing Yuma County, Colorado — the weather behind every town page, inspection and claim linked from this index. Storm light over Yuma County rooftops — the county whose 944 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 Yuma County in brief.
NOAA logged 944 hail events in Yuma County from 1995 to 2024, with a largest stone of 5.25 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.
Yuma 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.
944
Hail events in Yuma County, 1995–2024
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
5.25 in
Largest hail recorded in Yuma County
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
9,979
Residents of Yuma County
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024
4
Yuma County towns covered on this page
This service
Wray
Yuma County seat
Yuma 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 Yuma 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 Yuma 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. Replacement makes sense when dents and cracks spread across several slopes, when granule loss is heavy, or when the roof was already near.
📞 Call NowSmall runs are often repaired the same visit; long crushed sections are measured and replaced to match the profile already on the house in Yuma County. 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 NowSlope-by-slope hit counts, not impressions, are what the report leads with — the numbers the claim will be argued from on both sides. A proper inspection covers every slope, plus the attic side where leaks and deck damage show first, and it ends with dated photos tied to your address.
📞 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. 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 NowUndersized or sagging old lines are upgraded at the same time, so heavy Front Range downpours stop overwhelming the system every single summer storm. When hail crushes long runs beyond straightening, replacement is the honest fix: new sections, correct pitch, sealed corners and downspouts that drain clear.
📞 Call NowSmall areas are patched panel by panel; long cracked runs are re-sided so the wall sheds water properly again instead of trapping it behind panels. Photos of cracked siding, taken before any cleanup, are some of the simplest evidence a homeowner can hand an adjuster after a Colorado hailstorm.
📞 Call NowWhy roofs in Yuma 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. Yuma County logged 944 hail events in the 30 years from 1995 to 2024 — among the heaviest totals in Colorado — and the largest stone measured 5.25 inches. Those are county figures, and Eckley 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.
Yuma 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, Wray, keeps the records; the NOAA database keeps the storms — 944 of them in 30 years. What varies between towns is mostly the roofs: their ages, materials and how many seasons they have already weathered. Yuma County sits inside Hail Alley, the hail corridor that runs along and east of the Front Range.
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.
The climate normals tell the winter half of the story: roughly 22.8 inches of snow a year near Eckley and 154.5 freezing nights, measured at Yuma. 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. Eckley roofs do not get to heal between seasons — they get tested.
Most Yuma 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.
Ask any Yuma 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.
Yuma County Snapshot
Largest County Hail: 5.25 in
Share of Colorado's 5.25 in state record · NOAA NCEI 1995–2024
County Hail Events: 944
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: 9,979
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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