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Storm research, 2026 forecasts, and unfiltered takes from the people building Roofers Radar.

IndustryApril 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Stop Paying for Homes That Weren’t Hit

Most roofing companies are quietly paying a tax they do not see: buying property data for entire ZIP codes when only 8% of those parcels were inside the actual storm footprint. Here is what it costs, and what hyper-targeted storm-zone data actually changes.

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Roofers Radar Research Desk
Industry Analysis
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ResearchApril 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Storms Are Getting Worse: 5 Years of Rising Severity

We applied our Storm Scoring Model to five years of NWS warning archives. The data is unambiguous: storm severity is rising, not just storm frequency. Here is what the numbers say, and what we project for the 2026 season.

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Roofers Radar Research Desk
Data + Weather Analysis
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ResearchApril 17, 2026 · 9 min read

The $400 Billion Year: Inside the 2025 Severe Storm Season

Severe convective storms drove 2025 to one of the costliest years on record for US property damage. Here is what the radar data, insurance filings, and FEMA declarations actually show — and what it means for your 2026 pipeline.

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Roofers Radar Research Desk
Weather + Data Analysis
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ForecastApril 17, 2026 · 8 min read

2026 Storm Forecast: What Roofers Should Be Doing Right Now

Colorado State, NOAA, and AccuWeather all point to an active 2026 hail and hurricane season. Here is the regional breakdown, the early-season signals already showing up on radar, and the operational moves smart roofing companies are making before May.

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Roofers Radar Research Desk
Weather + Data Analysis
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Founder POVApril 17, 2026 · 7 min read

Why I Built Roofers Radar

After years of watching roofing crews sit on their hands for two days after a storm while the big out-of-state chasers flooded the neighborhood, I got sick of it. This is the unfiltered story of why Roofers Radar exists, what it is, and what it is not.

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Roofers Radar
Founder
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Data deep-dive
5-Year Trend

Severe storm volume is up +64% — Extreme-tier storms up +209%

Count of US NWS severe-weather warnings by roofing-weighted tier, year over year. Each year contains all three tiers — the story is how much each one is growing.

2026 Projection · Extreme tier
~420
Extreme-tier warnings — up ~282% vs 2021
2026 Projection · Residential
~11.1M
US homes inside ≥1 severe warning
2026 Projection · Commercial
~745
Commercial buildings at risk
2026 (projected)Data: NWS / NOAA NCEI / SPC archives · Tiered with Roofers Radar model

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