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Roofing · Clearfield, Utah
Honest, affordable roofing for Clearfield's homeowners and Hill AFB families, from an Ogden-based roofer who'll tell you straight whether you need a repair or a replacement.
Compass Roofing serves all of Clearfield: roof replacement, repair, storm and hail damage, and free inspections. Clearfield has a lot of affordable, older homes where the roof is the thing finally coming due, and we're straight with you about whether a repair will hold or it's time to replace. Written price up front, no payment until the job's done, and a 10-year workmanship warranty on a full replacement.
Local knowledge
Clearfield grew up around Hill Air Force Base and the old Naval Supply Depot, now the Freeport Center, one of the West's big distribution hubs. That history shaped the housing: a lot of Clearfield's homes went up in the post-war and mid-century boom, so they're more affordable than the newer parts of Davis County. Many of those roofs are well past a typical asphalt lifespan. For a lot of Clearfield homeowners, the roof is the one big-ticket item finally due.
On aging shingles, Davis County weather shows up as wind-lifted tabs, leaks at the flashing, and worn valleys. We break down exactly what that weather does, and what a Clearfield roof should be built to handle, further down this page.
Because so many Clearfield roofs are near the end, we're careful to give you the honest math: sometimes a repair genuinely buys you years, and sometimes another repair is just money on a roof that needs replacing. We'll show you which one you're looking at. Our shop is in Ogden, about 15 minutes up I-15, so Clearfield is core territory for us: close enough for a same-week inspection and a fast callback, no satellite office required.
Know your roof's era
Clearfield grew more than fivefold between 1950 and 2000, from about 4,700 residents to nearly 26,000, and the rooflines tell you exactly when each street was built. Once we know a home's era, we usually know what we'll find up there before the ladder comes off the truck.
Hill Field opened on Clearfield's eastern border in November 1940, and the Navy's supply depot followed in 1943. The oldest blocks near downtown filled in fast with small cottages and early ramblers for defense workers. Eighty years on, many of these roofs hide two or even three old shingle layers over plank decking with gaps between the boards. That combination means a patch rarely holds: nails miss solid wood, and stacked layers trap heat that cooks the top shingles from underneath. Homes here usually need a full tear-off, fresh decking where the planks have rotted (priced per sheet as a written line item, never a mid-job surprise), and the modern ice barrier these houses were built decades too early to get.
The old depot became the Freeport Center, now home to dozens of manufacturing and distribution companies, and South Clearfield's post-war ranches sit beside it on flat, open ground with little to slow the wind. Homes here are simple, lower-pitched roofs where the predictable trouble is wind-creased field shingles and valleys worn through to the underlayment. The good news: on a simple ranch, an honest repair is cheap when the shingle mat still has life in it. The judgment call is whether it does, and that's exactly what a free inspection settles.
The bulk of Clearfield's housing stock is 1960s and '70s brick ramblers and ranches, and most are on at least their second roof. The era's predictable weak spot is ventilation: attic intake was an afterthought in those decades, so warm attic air melts the snowpack, the meltwater refreezes at the cold eaves, and ice dams pry at the north-facing edges every February. It also ages shingles faster than their rating. When we replace a rambler-belt roof we correct the intake and exhaust balance as part of the job, because new shingles over a starved attic just fail early again.
The west side's 1990s and 2000s two-stories sit on open lake plain where the trees haven't caught up to the rooflines yet, so wind and hail arrive at full strength. Builder-grade shingles from that era are now 20 to 30 years old: hail bruising that doesn't leak until a year later, and ridge caps that are always the first thing to blow off. Homes here most often need storm-damage documentation done right (photographed, measured, and dated) so your insurer can make its decision with a complete file in front of it.
Legend Hills went in after 2002 along I-15, and the newer townhomes and two-stories near it carry steeper, more complicated rooflines: dormers, intersecting valleys, and dead valleys behind walls. These roofs are young, so what they usually need is a targeted repair at a flashing detail the original builder rushed, typically in the $500–$2,500 range, plus a hail check after the bigger summer storms.
Weather, translated into a build spec
Clearfield sits at about 4,327 feet on the flat lake plain west of the Wasatch bench and picks up roughly 33 inches of snow in a typical year. Lake-plain winters swing above and below freezing dozens of times, so snowmelt refreezes at the eaves and works at every shingle edge and flashing seam.
Then there's the wind. Davis County's canyon-driven east winds are the most serious along the bench: the September 8, 2020 downslope windstorm gusted to 99 mph in the county and knocked out power to almost 200,000 customers, and a December 2011 event topped 100 mph. Clearfield sits farther from the mouth of the canyons than Farmington or Centerville, so it's spared the very worst, but a gust that has "only" 60 or 70 mph left in it will still strip an aging roof, and the open ground on the west side gives every storm a running start.
After one of those wind nights, the tell-tale signs are shingle tabs in the yard, ridge caps hanging loose, and dark patches on the roof where the surface granules used to be. Any one of those is worth a documented inspection within the week, because the felt underneath weathers fast once it's exposed.
So a roof built for Clearfield carries a specific spec: ice and water shield at the eaves and in every valley, synthetic underlayment across the deck, shingles rated for high wind and fastened with six nails apiece instead of four, and balanced intake and exhaust ventilation so the attic stays cold enough to stop ice dams before they form. Your written quote from us lists each of these by name: the ice-barrier coverage, the nailing pattern, the vent counts. If a bid doesn't say, ask why not.
What we do in Clearfield
A full, warranty-backed replacement with an upfront written price and no payment until it's complete.
Leaks, wind-blown shingles, and worn flashing. Fixed right, with an honest read on repair vs. replace.
We document the damage, help with your insurance claim, and stand behind the work.
Long-lasting standing-seam and metal systems, installed by experienced metal specialists.
A thorough, documented inspection and an honest assessment — at no charge.
Why Clearfield homeowners call us
We get on the roof, document what we find, and give you a straight answer. No charge, no pressure.
An exact, itemized price before any work starts. The number you'll actually pay.
No deposit and no money up front. You owe nothing until the job's finished and you're satisfied.
Every full roof replacement is backed by our written 10-year transferable workmanship warranty.
Clearfield roofing FAQ
Yes. We cover all of Clearfield, and we work with plenty of Hill AFB families in the area, plus the rest of Davis County and Northern Utah.
A full asphalt replacement typically runs about $12,000–$30,000 depending on size, pitch, and material. After a free inspection we hand you an exact written price. More on roof replacement →
It depends on the condition. We'll get on the roof, document it, and give you the honest math on whether a repair holds up or a replacement is the smarter money. More on roof repair →
Yes. Clearfield City requires a building permit for a full roof replacement, and most repairs beyond minor patching need one too. Permits run through the city's Building Division, and inspections are scheduled through the Building Department with 24 hours' notice. The permit should appear as a line item on any honest bid: a bid with no permit on it is a bid to skip the city's inspection, and that catches up with you at resale.
It tracks the home's era. Most of Clearfield's single-story ramblers and ranches go in 1–2 days once materials are on site. Wartime-core homes near downtown, where old plank decking often needs replacing, take longer, and so do the newer two-story west-side and Legend Hills homes with steep, complex rooflines. Either way, you get a written timeline before we begin, and you'll know the same day if anything under the shingles changes it.
Yes. We'll match our scope to the inspection report item by item, fix what's actually called out (most of these repairs land in the $500–$2,500 range), and hand you a written, photographed summary of the work that your agent can pass straight to the buyer's side. PCS dates don't move, so we schedule to your close date, not the other way around.
Often, yes, especially on the exposed west side and the open ground near the Freeport Center. Standing-seam metal carries much higher wind ratings than asphalt, sheds snow instead of holding it, and outlasts two or three shingle roofs. The trade-off is upfront cost: asphalt typically runs $12,000–$30,000, and metal lands meaningfully above that, quoted per roof. We'll price both on the same written quote so you can compare the real numbers side by side. More on metal roofing →
That's your insurer's call, and nobody can honestly promise you an approval. What we do is give the claim its best footing: a free inspection, dated photos of every slope, and a written scope of the storm damage we found. You file, the adjuster reviews it, and the insurer decides. If the claim is approved, we do the work for the written price we quoted. More on storm damage →
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Free inspection, a written price, and an honest answer on repair vs. replace.
