Dupont Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing up here for over fifteen years, and I can tell you Dupont gets hit from two sides. We sit right on that high plains shelf, so when spring storms roll off the Front Range, they don’t have any hills or trees to break them up. The wind just screams across the open ground, and it’s not a steady blow—it’s these violent, gusty microbursts that can hit sixty or seventy miles an hour out of nowhere. That’s what lifts shingles, curls the edges, and gets water underneath before you even know there’s a problem. And because we’re so exposed, those gusts funnel right between the houses, which can actually peel off a whole section of roofing if it’s older or wasn’t nailed down tight.

Then you’ve got the hail, and that’s the real killer. Our storm season peaks in May and June, but we can get a nasty cell as late as September. The hail here isn’t that little pea-sized stuff—it’s often golf ball or even baseball sized, and it comes down at an angle because of the wind. That combination is brutal. The wind drives the hail into your roof instead of letting it bounce off, so it’s not just dents; it’s cracking the asphalt granules and bruising the mat underneath. Once that protective layer is gone, the sun and rain do the rest, and you’ll start seeing bald spots and curling within a year. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but up close they were shattered like a cracked eggshell. That’s just what living in this spot on the map means—you’re in the bullseye for these supercells, and your roof takes the brunt of it every single time.