Kersey Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing up here for over twenty years, and if there’s one thing I can tell you about Kersey, it’s that we’re sitting right in the bullseye of Colorado’s worst weather. You see those big, open fields stretching out to the east? That’s the problem. There’s absolutely nothing to break up the wind coming straight off the Front Range, so when a spring thunderstorm rolls through, it doesn’t just hit us—it slams us. We get these supercell storms that drop hail the size of golf balls, sometimes even bigger, and because the wind is so relentless, that hail isn’t falling straight down. It’s coming at your roof sideways, hammering the shingles at an angle that tears the granules right off and leaves them looking like they’ve been sandblasted.

And it’s not just the big spring storms you have to worry about. Our hail season stretches from April all the way into early July, and then we get those wild September and October cold fronts that can spin up a nasty squall line out of nowhere. The real kicker is the temperature swings, too. We’ll have a scorching 95-degree day, then a cold front drops the temp by 30 degrees in an hour, and that sudden contraction makes your shingles brittle. So when the next wind gust hits—and it will, because we get 60 to 70 mile-per-hour straight-line winds every couple of years—those brittle shingles just crack and lift right off the deck. I’ve seen roofs that looked fine from the street, but up close, the edges were curled and the nail heads were exposed. That’s the Kersey special, and it’s why I always tell folks here to get their roofs inspected after every big blow, not just when they see a leak.