Detroit Roof Pros provides professional hail damage assessment in Detroit, MI for residential and commercial properties across southeast Michigan. Most of the Detroit roofs we get called to inspect for hail turn out to have none. Saying that first is the honest version of this page, and it is why we will usually talk a caller out of a claim rather than into one.
Southeast Michigan gets hail. It does not get the repeat, large-stone hail of the plains, and the difference matters because carriers know it too and price their skepticism accordingly. What we find far more often is a thirty-year-old three-tab roof at the end of its life, shedding granules the way an old roof does, with a downspout outlet full of grit that has been accumulating quietly for a decade.
Genuine impact evidence is specific and it is checkable. Soft metal takes the record first: dents in gutter aprons, downspout faces, roof vents and any furnace flue cap. On the covering itself a real bruise is a soft spot with the mat fractured underneath, random rather than patterned in placement, and it feels different under a thumb than mechanical scuffing does. Blistering is round, uniform and not hail.
So we chalk test squares, ten by ten, on each slope and count. The count goes in the report whether it helps you or not, alongside date-stamped photographs and the direction of the strike. If there are three marks on a north slope and nothing anywhere else, that number goes in the report and our recommendation is to leave the roof alone and revisit after the next event.
If you do have a claim, the story-and-a-half geometry works in your favor and against you at once. There is more edge, valley and dormer per square than a ranch has, so more places for a stone to catch a corner, but the planes are short and steep and adjusters walk them less carefully than they walk a low ranch roof. We meet the adjuster with our squares already marked.
Where a roof is being replaced anyway, a UL 2218 Class 4 impact-rated laminate is worth pricing, though we will not pretend it pays for itself here the way it does along the Front Range. Ask us for both numbers, the upgrade cost and any premium credit your carrier genuinely offers in Michigan, and then decide on the arithmetic rather than on the label.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — rafter-bay ventilation baffles, closed-cell spray polyurethane at the deck underside, knee-wall access panels, shed-dormer cheek-wall step flashing, plaster-and-lath ceiling planes, square-edge 1x6 board sheathing — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Detroit and nearby communities including Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Livonia, Redford.
What We Handle
Everything our hail damage assessment in Detroit covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of hail damage assessment work in Detroit, MI. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- hail damage roof Detroit
- hail roof inspection
- hail bruising shingles
- test square hail
- granule loss age
- impact rated shingles
- UL 2218 class 4
- hail claim denied
- soft metal hail evidence
- roof hail assessment
- hail repair Michigan
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Detroit services.
Materials, equipment and how we do hail damage assessment
The difference between hail damage assessment that lasts and hail damage assessment that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with rafter-bay ventilation baffles, closed-cell spray polyurethane at the deck underside, knee-wall access panels, shed-dormer cheek-wall step flashing, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Detroit job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of roofing work in southeast Michigan means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do hail damage assessment outside Detroit
Detroit Roof Pros covers Detroit and the surrounding communities of southeast Michigan. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Hail Damage Assessment in Dearborn, MI — Wayne County, population 109,976
- Hail Damage Assessment in Dearborn Heights, MI — Wayne County, population 63,292
- Hail Damage Assessment in Livonia, MI — Wayne County, population 95,535
- Hail Damage Assessment in Redford, MI — Wayne County, population 49,504
- Hail Damage Assessment in Garden City, MI — Wayne County, population 27,380
- Hail Damage Assessment in Wyandotte, MI — Wayne County, population 25,058
Start on the Detroit Roof Pros homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Detroit Chooses Detroit Roof Pros
- ✓We label every roof plane attic above or finished space above before we price anything, because that is what decides whether a repair or a replacement is the honest answer.
- ✓The inspection happens indoors as well as outdoors. A pin moisture meter on plaster at the knee-wall base finds what a scuttle-hole inspection structurally cannot reach.
- ✓Deck work is priced as its own line. Square-edge 1x6 board sheathing is renailed where sound and overlaid by the section where it is not, with the square footage stated.
- ✓Ventilation is quoted as a path, not a product. If the wood soffit behind your aluminum was never cut open, a ridge vent has been drawing on nothing for years.
The standards behind hail damage assessment
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The hail damage assessment work we do in Detroit follows published industry standards: NRCA publishes the Roofing Manual, the industry's reference for details and slope minimums, and Asphalt Roofing Manufacturers Association sets the shingle application and ventilation guidance the warranties reference. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every hail damage assessment project in Detroit gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free hail damage assessment free estimate in Detroit, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.