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Carolina Trophy Roofs provides roofing services throughout Wake County, NC, serving the following communities:
Roofing in Wake County, NC
Wake County is centered on Raleigh and sits in the piedmont edge of North Carolina. Carolina Trophy Roofs works throughout the county, from Raleigh and Cary out to the smaller communities that most contractors will not drive to.
The western edge of the service area sees fewer tropical systems but far more severe thunderstorms, damaging straight-line wind and hail through spring and summer.
Hail bruising is the common hidden damage - granule loss and mat fracture that will not leak for months but shortens roof life. Falling limbs from mature hardwood canopy are a frequent secondary cause.
Hurricane Fran reached the Raleigh area in 1996 as a weakening tropical storm still producing hurricane-force gusts - RDU recorded a 79 mph gust - and remains the benchmark for inland wind damage in Wake County.
If you need a roof inspected, repaired or replaced in Wake 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 Wake County
What the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recorded happening over Wake 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 457 severe-weather events recorded against Wake County between 2016 and 2026: 327 thunderstorm wind events, 125 hail reports and 5 tornadoes.
Of the 125 hail reports, 93 measured 1.00 in across or larger and 32 measured under an inch. The largest on record is 2.75 in (Softball+) on September 1, 2017.
The strongest wind gust in the record is 66 kt (about 76 mph), a measured gust, on September 8, 2023. The county record holds five tornadoes over the same period.
The busiest complete year in the record is 2020, with 80 events. The most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition is a hail report measuring 1.00 in (Quarter - Half Dollar) on July 8, 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
457
2016–2026
Hail 1.00 in or larger
93
of 125 hail reports
Largest hail
2.75 in
Softball+ · September 1, 2017
Peak gust
66 kt
about 76 mph · September 8, 2023
Tornadoes
5
in the county record
Significant events
101
by this dataset's definition
Events recorded per year
- 2016
- 47
- 2017
- 17
- 2018
- 26
- 2019
- 77
- 2020
- 80
- 2021
- 18
- 2022
- 72
- 2023
- 37
- 2024
- 36
- 2025
- 42
- 2026*
- 5
* 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
- Sep 8, 2023 -- Thunderstorm Wind (66 kt gust)
- May 13, 2019 -- Tornado (EF2) -- $1.00M property damage reported
- May 13, 2019 -- Hail (Softball+ hail, 2.75 in) -- $95.00M property damage reported
- Sep 1, 2017 -- Hail (Softball+ hail, 2.75 in) -- $10.00M 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
68 preliminary storm reports have been filed for Wake County since June 1, 2026: 63 thunderstorm wind events and 5 hail reports. The largest hail in the window is 1.25 in (Quarter - Half Dollar), reported July 8, 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. $113,197,000 is the sum of NOAA’s recorded property-damage estimates across every event in Wake 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.