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Hail damage · Heber Valley, Utah
Hail the size of golf balls fell on Midway on the evening of September 17, 2026. If your roof was under it, the damage is probably real and probably invisible from your driveway. We will get on the roof and tell you straight.
Hail hit Midway hard on the evening of September 17, 2026. The National Weather Service logged a 1.5-inch stone; people across the valley photographed hail the size of golf balls and bigger, alongside 60 mph gusts. Compass Roofing is a licensed Utah roofing contractor offering free hail inspections across Heber City, Midway, Charleston and Daniel. We get on the roof, photograph what we find, and tell you whether you have a claim or not.
The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for north central Wasatch County and southwestern Summit County on the evening of September 17, with travel on US-40 affected. Midway took the worst of it. The National Weather Service storm report for that evening logs a 1.5-inch stone in Midway — the only confirmed measurement in the county. But a logged report is one person measuring one stone, and the photographs residents posted that night show hail the size of golf balls and bigger, held in the palm of a hand. Both numbers are worth knowing: 1.5 inches is what the record says, and golf ball is what a lot of this valley actually caught. A cell near Park City carried half-dollar hail and 60 mph gusts at about 7:05 p.m.
Hail size is what decides whether your roof is damaged, and the differences are not subtle:
One honest note about that data: those are ground reports, which means somebody has to be standing there to make one, and the stone they happen to pick up is rarely the biggest one that fell. That cuts both ways — it is why the logged 1.5 inches understates what people photographed, and it is why a single report in Midway does not prove Charleston escaped. So Midway and Heber City are the addresses worth inspecting first, and we are not going to pretend every roof between here and Coalville needs replacing.
Hail does not usually punch holes in a roof. It fractures the asphalt mat under the granules and knocks the granules loose, and both of those are close to invisible from your lawn. The roof looks fine, sheds water fine, and then fails years early because the mat underneath it is broken.
You can get a useful first read without a ladder, though. Hail marks soft metal before it marks shingles, so walk the outside of the house and look at:
If the fins on your condenser are dented, hail hard enough to hurt your roof was directly overhead. Photograph it before anything gets replaced — that is evidence for your claim, not just a curiosity.
Midway and Heber City sit around 5,600 feet, and Kamas and Oakley are higher still. Asphalt shingles need warmth to seal properly, and the roofing window up here closes a good deal earlier than it does down on the Wasatch Front. That changes the order things should happen in after a September storm.
Get the claim filed now. Get the work scheduled honestly. Most property policies require prompt notice of a loss, so the filing genuinely is time-sensitive — but the installation is weather-dependent, and some of these roofs will be better done in the spring than rushed in on a cold week in November. A crew that tells you every roof in the valley can be replaced before the snow is telling you what you want to hear.
This is also the part where an out-of-state crew and a Utah contractor have genuinely different interests. A chaser needs to install and get paid before they move on to the next storm. We are an hour away and we will still be here in the spring, so we have no reason to talk you into a bad install date.
A lot of roofs in Midway and around Jordanelle belong to people who were not in the state on September 17 and have no idea anything happened. Property policies generally expect prompt notice of a loss, and a roof that sat through a winter before anyone looked at it is a harder claim to document than one inspected in September.
If you own here and live elsewhere, we will inspect the roof, photograph everything, and send you the full set — you do not need to fly in for it, and you do not need to be home while somebody is on your roof. If there is nothing wrong, you will get that in writing too.
A hailstorm this size brings crews in from out of state within days. Some are good. Many are not licensed in Utah, will not be reachable when a warranty matters, and are gone before the first snow. Four things separate them, and all four are checkable at your door:
Ask for it and look it up with the state. Ours is 14299166-5501. The Division of Professional Licensing runs a free public lookup — check any roofer you talk to, including us.
Ask for a certificate naming their own company. If a crew is working your roof uninsured, that exposure lands on you.
Not a PO box and not a truck. Ours is in Ogden — about an hour from Heber — and it is on every document we hand you.
Nobody should ask for a signature or a deposit on your porch. We inspect first, then put a written price in your hand, and you decide with the paperwork in front of you.
We are straight about what we are: a licensed Utah roofing company based in Ogden that works the Wasatch Back. We are not a Heber company and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we can tell you is that our licence, our address and our reviews are all real and all verifiable before you let anyone touch your roof.
If a roofer offers to cover, waive, absorb or "eat" your insurance deductible, walk away and do not sign anything. Utah law makes the deductible the policyholder's to pay, and any arrangement built on hiding that puts your claim — and you — at risk. We will never offer it, and anyone who does is telling you something useful about how they do business.
We also will not tell you your claim will be approved. That is your insurer's decision, not ours. What we do is document the damage properly with dated photographs, put together what an adjuster needs to see, and stand on the roof with them so nothing legitimate gets overlooked. We guarantee our own workmanship, our pricing and our timeline. Those are the three things that are actually ours to guarantee.
More on how the claim side works: storm and hail damage repair · does insurance cover a new roof?
Somebody gets on the roof. Not a walk around the driveway and not a drone pass — hail bruising has to be found by hand, because a fractured mat under intact granules does not photograph from the air. We check the field shingles, the ridge, the valleys, the flashing, the vents and the soft metal, and we photograph all of it so you see what we see. It takes thirty to forty-five minutes.
Then you get a straight answer in one of three shapes: it needs a repair, it needs replacing, or it is fine and we will say so and leave. It is free, there is no obligation, and you do not have to be home while we are up there.
If it does need replacing, you get an itemised written price before anything starts, and a 10-year transferable workmanship warranty on a full replacement. See also what a roof inspection covers and roof replacement.
Heber Valley hail FAQ
Soon. Property policies generally require prompt notice of a loss, and the longer a damaged roof sits the harder it is to show the damage came from this storm rather than the next one. Filing early does not commit you to any contractor, including us.
Yes, if you were under the Midway or Park City cells. Hail damage is fractures in the asphalt mat and loosened granules, neither of which shows from the ground. Start with your air-conditioner fins — if those are dented, get the roof looked at.
Some of them, honestly not all. At 5,600 feet the sealing window closes early, and a rushed cold-weather install is a worse outcome than a spring one. We will tell you which yours is rather than promising a date we cannot keep.
We cannot tell you that, and no honest roofer will. That decision belongs to your insurer. Our job is to document the damage thoroughly, give them everything they need, and be on the roof with the adjuster.
No, and nobody should offer to. The deductible is the policyholder's to pay under Utah law. An offer to waive it is a warning sign about everything else that contractor is telling you.
Use a good local roofer if you have one. What we offer against an out-of-state crew is that we are licensed in Utah, insured, about an hour away, and still reachable in five years when a warranty matters. Our licence number is 14299166-5501 — verify it with the state before you decide.
Free inspection across Heber City, Midway, Charleston and Daniel. Photos of everything we find, and a straight answer either way.
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