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Carolina Trophy Roofs provides roofing services throughout Dare County, NC, serving the following communities:
Roofing in Dare County, NC
Dare County is centered on Manteo and sits in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Carolina Trophy Roofs works throughout the county, from Kill Devil Hills and Nags Head out to the smaller communities that most contractors will not drive to.
Barrier-island roofs take the harshest exposure in North Carolina: sustained onshore wind with no inland buffer, salt spray that reaches every surface, and wind-driven sand that abrades finishes and granules.
Wind uplift at eaves, rakes and ridges is the dominant failure mode, followed by fastener corrosion from constant salt load. Edge metal, fastening pattern and underlayment matter more here than shingle brand.
Dare County took direct damage from Hurricane Isabel in 2003, which cut a new inlet through Hatteras Island, and again from Dorian in 2019.
If you need a roof inspected, repaired or replaced in Dare County — or you have storm damage and need it tarped today — Carolina Trophy Roofs responds across the county with free estimates and manufacturer-backed workmanship.
Storm history in Dare County
What the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recorded happening over Dare County — how much hail, at what size, how recently, and how hard the wind has blown. These are weather records, not an assessment of any building.
NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 68 severe-weather events recorded against Dare County between 2016 and 2026: 64 thunderstorm wind events, 2 hail reports and 2 tornadoes.
Of the two hail reports, one measured 1.00 in across or larger and one measured under an inch. The largest on record is 1.00 in (Quarter - Half Dollar) on May 15, 2025.
The strongest wind gust in the record is 82 kt (about 94 mph), a measured gust, on March 5, 2025. The county record holds two tornadoes over the same period.
The busiest complete year in the record is 2024, with 13 events. The most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition is a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 kt (about 69 mph) on August 24, 2026. That one is a preliminary report and has not yet been through the quality-control review that produces the permanent archive.
Events on record
68
2016–2026
Hail 1.00 in or larger
1
of 2 hail reports
Largest hail
1.00 in
Quarter - Half Dollar · May 15, 2025
Peak gust
82 kt
about 94 mph · March 5, 2025
Tornadoes
2
in the county record
Significant events
20
by this dataset's definition
Events recorded per year
- 2016
- 7
- 2017
- 2
- 2018
- 6
- 2019
- 10
- 2020
- 9
- 2021
- 3
- 2022
- 6
- 2023
- 3
- 2024
- 13
- 2025
- 8
- 2026*
- 1
* The most recent data year is partial. NOAA publishes storm reports on a rolling basis and the final months are still being processed, so a low count in the last year is not evidence of a quiet year. The curated archive behind these counts runs through May 31, 2026; anything later sits in the preliminary block below.
Notable events in the archive
- May 15, 2025 -- Hail (Quarter - Half Dollar hail, 1.00 in)
- Mar 5, 2025 -- Thunderstorm Wind (82 kt gust)
- Sep 3, 2016 -- Tornado (EF0) -- $250K property damage reported
- Feb 16, 2016 -- Thunderstorm Wind (67 kt gust) -- $10K property damage reported
Selected by the dataset’s own rule rather than by editorial choice: the largest hail, the peak wind gust, the strongest tornado and the two costliest events by recorded property damage, deduplicated and newest first. Any dollar figure above is NOAA’s recorded estimate for that one event.
Preliminary — not yet in the permanent archive
10 preliminary storm reports have been filed for Dare County since June 1, 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind events and 2 hail reports. The largest hail in the window is 1.00 in (Quarter - Half Dollar), reported July 6, 2026. The strongest gust reported is 60 kt (about 69 mph), on June 13, 2026.
Preliminary reports covering 2026-05-31 onward come from National Weather Service storm reports filed as events occur. They have not yet been through the quality-control review that produces the permanent archive, and individual reports may later be revised, combined or withdrawn. NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports.
What these counts cover. County figures count events NOAA recorded against a county (hail, thunderstorm wind and tornadoes). High wind, winter storms, ice storms, blizzards, heavy snow, hurricanes and tropical storms are recorded against National Weather Service forecast zones rather than counties, so they are reported at state level instead. Counts reflect events that were observed and reported.
“Significant” on this page means an event meeting any one of three tests: hail 1.00 in across or larger, a wind gust of 58 kt or more (the National Weather Service severe thunderstorm criterion), or any tornado. It is a severity definition used by this dataset and is not an official NOAA classification.
The damage figure. $260,000 is the sum of NOAA’s recorded property-damage estimates across every event in Dare County over the period — a county total, not a figure for any one property, any one building or any one claim. NOAA records these figures as estimates made at the time of reporting. They are not adjusted for inflation, and they are frequently absent or zero — a zero means nothing was recorded, not that nothing was damaged.
Source. Archived figures come from the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Storm Events Database, covering 2016 through May 31, 2026. Anything after that date comes from NOAA Storm Prediction Center preliminary storm reports and is labelled preliminary wherever it appears. Both are US Government works in the public domain.