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Roofing in Onslow County, NC
Onslow County is centered on Jacksonville and sits in the coast of North Carolina. Carolina Trophy Roofs works throughout the county, from Jacksonville and Swansboro out to the smaller communities that most contractors will not drive to.
Ocean-adjacent mainland roofs face hurricane and tropical-storm landfall, sustained high wind and year-round salt air carried inland on the prevailing breeze.
Blow-offs usually start where the roof plane changes - hips, ridges, rakes and around penetrations. Salt exposure shortens the life of exposed fasteners and unprotected flashing.
Onslow County was near Hurricane Florence’s 2018 landfall and saw both wind damage and prolonged flooding.
If you need a roof inspected, repaired or replaced in Onslow 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 Onslow County
What the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recorded happening over Onslow 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 93 severe-weather events recorded against Onslow County between 2016 and 2026: 68 thunderstorm wind events, 19 hail reports and 6 tornadoes.
Of the 19 hail reports, 16 measured 1.00 in across or larger and 3 measured under an inch. The largest on record is 1.75 in (Golf Ball) on April 23, 2025.
The strongest wind gust in the record is 70 kt (about 81 mph), an estimated gust, on April 13, 2020. The county record holds six tornadoes over the same period.
The busiest complete year in the record is 2024, with 22 events. The most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition is a thunderstorm wind gust of 59 kt (about 68 mph) on March 12, 2026.
Events on record
93
2016–2026
Hail 1.00 in or larger
16
of 19 hail reports
Largest hail
1.75 in
Golf Ball · April 23, 2025
Peak gust
70 kt
about 81 mph · April 13, 2020
Tornadoes
6
in the county record
Significant events
31
by this dataset's definition
Events recorded per year
- 2016
- 10
- 2017
- 1
- 2018
- 8
- 2019
- 7
- 2020
- 4
- 2021
- 2
- 2022
- 11
- 2023
- 13
- 2024
- 22
- 2025
- 7
- 2026*
- 8
* 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
- Apr 23, 2025 -- Hail (Golf Ball hail, 1.75 in)
- Apr 13, 2020 -- Thunderstorm Wind (70 kt gust)
- Sep 15, 2018 -- Tornado (EF1)
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
8 preliminary storm reports have been filed for Onslow County since June 1, 2026: 8 thunderstorm wind events.
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.
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.