Trezevant Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Trezevant sits right in a bullseye for some of the nastiest weather in West Tennessee. We’re not in the mountains, so there’s nothing to break up those strong spring storms that roll in from the southwest. They come barreling across the flat farmland, picking up speed and intensity, and when they hit our little town, they just unload. The hail we get isn’t that tiny pea stuff either—we regularly see golf ball and even baseball-sized stones in April and May. And because our homes are mostly older with steep-pitched roofs, that hail hits at a direct angle, which is the worst possible way to bruise and crack your shingles. It’s not just a few dings; it’s like someone took a hammer to the whole surface.

Then you’ve got the wind that tags along with those same storms. Trezevant is surrounded by open fields and scattered tree lines, so there’s nothing to slow down those straight-line gusts that can hit 70 or 80 miles an hour. I’ve seen whole sections of shingles peeled back like a sardine can lid, and once that happens, the next rainstorm is going to find every little gap in your underlayment. The worst part is the timing—we get these big blows in late summer too, when the heat has already made your shingles soft and brittle. So you’re dealing with hail damage from the spring, then wind damage from a summer thunderstorm, and by fall, your roof is just begging for a replacement. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll need work done here, it’s a matter of *when*—and I’d rather you call me before the water’s dripping in your living room.