Broxton Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you straight up—Broxton sits right in that sweet spot where the weather just loves to test your shingles. We’re smack in the middle of the Southeast’s hail alley, and those spring and early summer thunderstorms don’t mess around. They’ll roll in off the Gulf with zero warning, and the hail isn’t that tiny pea-sized stuff you can shrug off. We regularly see quarter to golf ball sized stones, and when that wind kicks up to sixty or seventy miles an hour, it’s not just hitting your roof flat—it’s coming in at an angle, driving those ice balls right under the edges of your shingles and lifting them like a crowbar. The heat and humidity we get between May and September also makes the asphalt brittle, so by the time that first big storm hits in June, your roof is already half-primed to crack and tear.

And here’s the thing about our geography that a lot of folks don’t realize—we’re surrounded by those wide-open peanut and cotton fields, so there’s nothing to break the wind. A storm can be dying out over Coffee County, but once it hits our open flatlands, it re-energizes and turns into a straight-line wind machine. I’ve seen storms that weren’t even tornado-warned rip entire sections of ridge venting clean off because the gusts just funnel down those open corridors with nothing to slow them down. Plus, we get those nasty October and November cold fronts that swing through right after the summer heat, and that sudden temperature drop makes the sealant on your shingles shrink and pull loose. So between the spring hail, the summer wind, and the fall temperature swings, your roof here in Broxton takes a beating from every direction—and it’s not a matter of *if* you’ll need repairs, it’s a matter of *when*.