This directory holds six roofing listings for Kinston, North Carolina. Three of them carry a Google rating taken from the business's own profile, from 4.2 to 4.8, covering 232 reviews in total. The other 3 are address and phone records with no rating attached.
Five of them are recorded in Lenoir County. The rest are in Nash County. Roofing permits and inspections are issued locally rather than by the state, so a re-roof in Kinston goes through Lenoir County or the municipality's own building department, whichever holds jurisdiction at the property.
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From their Google profile: Listed in the National Roofing Directory as the #1-rated roofing company in Rocky Mount, Wilson, & Greenville, NC: CAROLINA TROPHY ROOFS specializes in residential and commercial roofing,…
Licensing for roofers working in Kinston
North Carolina does not license roofers as a trade at every job size. A state contractor credential becomes necessary once a project reaches $40,000, and it is issued by the North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors.
Below that figure a Kinston roofer needs no state license — but the threshold is about state licensure only. It never exempts the work from a permit and an inspection through Lenoir County or the city.
Source: North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors. Checked August 2026. Licensing rules change — verify before you sign anything.
What roofing work costs
We have not modeled a cost index for Kinston, so there is no Kinston 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 Lenoir County
Kinston has no weather record of its own — NOAA records severe weather against counties, and the listings on this page put Kinston in Lenoir County, with some of them in Nash County. The figures below cover Lenoir County only. These are weather records for the whole county, not an assessment of any building in Kinston.
NOAA's Storm Events Database holds 55 severe-weather events recorded against Lenoir County between 2016 and 2026: 47 thunderstorm wind events, 5 hail reports and 3 tornadoes.
All five hail reports measured 1.00 in across or larger. The largest on record is 1.00 in (Quarter - Half Dollar) on May 3, 2016.
The strongest wind gust in the record is 70 kt (about 81 mph), an estimated gust, on May 23, 2022. The county record holds three tornadoes over the same period.
The busiest complete year in the record is 2019, with nine events. The most recent event meeting this dataset's severity definition is a tornado rated EF1 on June 22, 2023.
Events on record
55
2016–2026
Hail 1.00 in or larger
5
of 5 hail reports
Largest hail
1.00 in
Quarter - Half Dollar · May 3, 2016
Peak gust
70 kt
about 81 mph · May 23, 2022
Tornadoes
3
in the county record
Significant events
10
by this dataset's definition
Events recorded per year
- 2016
- 4
- 2017
- 2
- 2018
- 4
- 2019
- 9
- 2020
- 2
- 2021
- 5
- 2022
- 8
- 2023
- 8
- 2024
- 4
- 2025
- 7
- 2026*
- 2
* 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
- Jun 22, 2023 -- Tornado (EF1)
- May 23, 2022 -- Thunderstorm Wind (70 kt gust)
- May 3, 2016 -- Hail (Quarter - Half Dollar hail, 1.00 in)
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
4 preliminary storm reports have been filed for Lenoir County since June 1, 2026: 4 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.