This directory holds six roofing listings for Kalona, Iowa. None of them has a Google rating matched to it yet, so what follows is contact detail rather than reputation data.
Five of them are recorded in Washington County. The rest are in Johnson County. Roofing permits and inspections are issued locally rather than by the state, so a re-roof in Kalona goes through Washington County or the municipality's own building department, whichever holds jurisdiction at the property.
All Listings in Kalona
6 listings
Licensing for roofers working in Kalona
Iowa does not licence roofing contractors. It requires them to register with the Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing, and that requirement covers work in Kalona.
Registration and licensure are not the same thing — a registration number records that a business completed a filing, and it sits alongside, not instead of, a permit and an inspection through Washington County or the city.
Source: Iowa Department of Inspections, Appeals, and Licensing. Checked August 2026. Licensing rules change — verify before you sign anything.
What roofing work costs
We have not modelled a cost index for Kalona, so there is no Kalona figure here. These are the national baseline bands, unadjusted.
National reference bands, not quotes and not local numbers. Local labor rates, permit fees and access all move them.
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Storm history in Washington County
Kalona has no weather record of its own — NOAA records severe weather against counties, and the listings on this page put Kalona in Washington County, with some of them in Johnson County. The figures below cover Washington County only. These are weather records for the whole county, not an assessment of any building in Kalona.
NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 107 severe-weather events recorded against Washington County between 2016 and 2026: 64 thunderstorm wind events, 36 hail reports and 7 tornadoes.
Of the 36 hail reports, 26 measured 1.00 in across or larger and 10 measured under an inch. The largest on record is 2.50 in (Baseball) on April 2, 2026.
The strongest wind gust in the record is 75 kt (about 86 mph), a measured gust, on May 16, 2019. The county record holds seven tornadoes over the same period.
The busiest complete year in the record is 2017, with 21 events. The most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition is a hail report measuring 1.75 in (Golf Ball) on August 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
107
2016–2026
Hail 1.00 in or larger
26
of 36 hail reports
Largest hail
2.50 in
Baseball · April 2, 2026
Peak gust
75 kt
about 86 mph · May 16, 2019
Tornadoes
7
in the county record
Significant events
66
by this dataset's definition
Events recorded per year
- 2016
- 3
- 2017
- 21
- 2018
- 10
- 2019
- 4
- 2020
- 5
- 2021
- 6
- 2022
- 2
- 2023
- 12
- 2024
- 17
- 2025
- 9
- 2026*
- 18
* 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 2, 2026 -- Hail (Baseball hail, 2.50 in)
- Mar 31, 2023 -- Tornado (EF3)
- May 16, 2019 -- Thunderstorm Wind (75 kt gust)
- May 17, 2017 -- Thunderstorm Wind (65 kt gust) -- $15K property damage reported
- May 17, 2017 -- Thunderstorm Wind (70 kt gust) -- $3K 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 Washington County since June 1, 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind events, 3 hail reports and 2 tornadoes. The largest hail in the window is 1.75 in (Golf Ball), reported August 8, 2026. The strongest gust reported is 74 kt (about 85 mph), on August 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. $19,000 is the sum of NOAA’s recorded property-damage estimates across every event in Washington 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.