RoofIntel

Commercial roof storm intelligence

Commercial roof storm intelligence

Know which roofs got hit
before anyone knocks on the door.

RoofIntel reads the same NOAA radar archive the hail-report vendors resell, matches it against the buildings you care about, and tells you which ones took a storm — with the date, the estimated hail size, and where every number came from.

Public data. No metering, no per-report charge, about $7 a month to run.

What a report looks like

One address in. A verdict out — with the working shown.

Type an address, click a roof, or press Where I am. Every source is asked at once, and what comes back is a score, a verdict, and the five factors behind it — each one saying what it used and where that came from.

  • Every number names its source. Permit records, NEXRAD radar, ground reports, parcel data — on the card, not in a footnote.
  • “None found” and “couldn’t look” are different answers. A factor with no data says so, and the score is capped by how much is actually known.
  • It tells you. Track a building and hail landing on it raises an alert — not a report you have to remember to ask for.
  • No meter. Run as many as you like. Public data; about $7 a month keeps the whole thing on.
Sample · illustrative numbers

What it does

Hail history for any building

Five years of archived NEXRAD radar detections and NOAA ground reports, for an address or anywhere you click on the map. Radar sees every storm; ground reports only exist where somebody phoned one in.

Roof measurement, mostly without drawing

Building outlines are looked up automatically — pick the right roof and it is measured. Where there is no outline, three clicks make a true rectangle. Every area carries its units, so a square metre can never be read as a square foot.

Roof age from permits

Open permit records, read for re-roofs rather than rooftop units, with the incumbent contractor named. Where a county publishes nothing, it says so instead of guessing.

A verdict you can check

Pursue, monitor or pass — with every factor, its weight, its evidence and its source on the same card. The verdict is capped by confidence, so it never overclaims on thin data.

Territories, not lookups

Watch everything within a radius of a town, or a shape you draw. Hail landing inside raises an alert whether or not you had saved a building there.

Alerts while you sleep

It runs on a server, not a laptop. When hail lands on a tracked building at 3am it tells you — deduplicated, and escalated if the storm gets worse.

How a report comes together

  1. 1

    Point at a building

    Type an address, press Where I am, or click the roof on satellite imagery. All three end up at the same place: a point on the ground.

  2. 2

    Every source is asked at once

    Archived radar, ground reports, permits, parcels and building outlines, in parallel, each allowed to fail on its own without taking the report down with it.

  3. 3

    You get an answer that shows its working

    A verdict, the factors behind it, and a list of which sources were checked and which weren't — because "none found" and "couldn't look" are different answers.

Where the numbers come from

NOAA SWDIArchived NEXRAD hail detections, decades back
NWSActive warnings with machine-readable hail size
MRMS / IEMLive radar hail swaths and ground storm reports
US CensusAddress lookup and county boundaries
Microsoft footprintsBuilding outlines for the whole US, so roofs measure themselves
USGS NAIPAerial imagery for checking and tracing roofs
Open permitsLouisville, Cincinnati, Nashville and growing
OpenStreetMapBuilding-level address matching

All of it public and free. For an insurance claim you still want a Verisk Benchmark report at $35 a property — carrier recognition is what you are paying for there, and it isn't something this can replicate. This gets you to the roof; that gets you paid.

Start here

  1. Track a dozen buildings. Look them up, or click them on the map, and press Track. Every one gets scored against every storm from then on.
  2. Draw your territory. Twenty-five miles around your town catches the buildings you haven't saved yet.
  3. Turn on phone alerts. Without them this is a website; with them it wakes you when it matters.

RoofIntel · built for Commercial Roofing Pros, Campbellsville KY

Hail size
1.00" severe
1.25" half dollar
1.75" golf ball
2.00"+ major