On the evening of June 19, 2026 a line of storms crossed the Twin Cities and dropped hail across the north and east metro. This is what the public record shows, taken from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center's storm reports for that date, which you can read in full at spc.noaa.gov.
Where the hail actually fell
The measured reports form a band running southeast across the metro. In order, by the times logged that evening:
- One inch hail just southeast of Brooklyn Park, then one and a quarter inches at Brooklyn Center.
- One inch at Fridley, logged as pea to quarter sized with minor tree damage after several minutes of continuous hail.
- One and a quarter inches at Columbia Heights.
- Roseville and Falcon Heights took the densest cluster: reports at one, one and a quarter, one and a half, one and three quarter and two inches, with a spotter describing the ground completely covered.
- One and three quarter inches at Little Canada, and one and three quarter inches at Maplewood.
- Hail slightly larger than two inches photographed two miles north northeast of St. Paul, the largest measurement of the evening at 2.25 inches.
- One inch and then one and a quarter inches at Oakdale, with a further one and a quarter inches two miles south.
Wind reports run wider than the hail, and they include two trees brought down in Champlin by the gust front behind the line.
It is worth being precise about what that list is and is not. Those are measurements taken at specific points by spotters and by the public. Hail falls in narrow, streaky bands, so a report a mile from your house neither proves your roof was hit nor rules it out. If you are on or near that band, the record is a reason to have somebody look at your roof. It is not a finding about your roof.
What hail that size can do to a roof
There is no stone size that automatically damages a roof, and no size that automatically leaves one alone. What a given storm does depends on how hard the stones were, the wind driving them, which shingle product is on the roof, how well it was installed, and how many summers it has already seen. Impact testing published by the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety shows very different results across shingle products at the same laboratory stone size, which is a good reason to be sceptical of any flat rule.
What hail can do, when it does something, falls into a few categories:
- Granule loss. The mineral surface is what shields the asphalt underneath from sunlight. Strip it and the shingle is exposed.
- Bruising or fracture of the mat. An impact can crack the fiberglass mat inside the shingle. You can sometimes feel a soft spot with a hand on the roof. You will not see it from a driveway.
- Tears and punctures. Harder strikes can break the surface outright.
Some of that is visible from the ground and a good deal of it is not, which is the whole argument for getting on the roof rather than guessing from the yard. Dents in soft metal, gutters, downspouts, air conditioner fins and window screens are useful evidence of what fell at your address, and they are worth photographing while they are fresh.
What Roofs R Us does, and what we do not
Our role here is narrow and we keep it that way. We are your roofing contractor.
What we do. We inspect the roof and photograph the damage we can observe. We give you an itemized estimate to repair or replace it. If you would like us there when your adjuster visits, we can be. We answer construction questions about the roof itself. We build the work you hire us to perform.
What we will not do. We do not interpret your policy or tell you what it covers. We do not predict or promise what your insurer will decide. We do not advise you on filing, timing or any duty your policy places on you. And we cannot pay, rebate or absorb any part of your deductible, because Minnesota Statute 325E.66 makes that illegal for every residential contractor in this state. If someone knocking on your door in the north metro offers to cover your deductible, that is not a discount. It is a law being broken, and it tells you how that company operates.
The inspection costs nothing and the photographs are yours whether you do anything with them or not.
Insurance questions go to your agent or your carrier
We are not licensed to advise you on your insurance and we will not guess at it. If you think you have a loss, the Minnesota Department of Commerce says the first step is to contact your insurance agent or company and report it. Commerce publishes plain guidance for homeowners on what happens next, including what an adjuster does and what to do if you disagree with a decision. Read it at mn.gov/commerce, and take any question about coverage, timing, rates or your options to your own agent or carrier.
Checking out a contractor after a storm
Big hail events bring out of state crews into Minnesota neighborhoods, so a few checks are worth making before you sign anything with anybody, us included.
- Verify the Minnesota contractor license. Ours is BC740619, and you can look up any license through the Department of Labor and Industry.
- Confirm a real local address. Ours is 10078 Flanders Ct NE, Suite 150, Blaine.
- Be wary of anyone pressing for a signature on the doorstep, or offering to cover a deductible.
- Know the cancellation rights and their conditions. Minnesota Statute 326B.811 gives 72 hours to cancel in writing after your insurer notifies you that the claim has been denied, and it applies to a written contract with a residential building contractor, remodeler or roofer for goods and services to be paid by the insured from the proceeds of a property or casualty insurance policy. The statute also requires the contractor to attach a detachable NOTICE OF CANCELLATION form to the contract. Separately, Minnesota Statute 325G.07 lets a buyer cancel a home solicitation sale, meaning one personally solicited and agreed somewhere other than the seller's place of business, until midnight of the third business day after the sale. Read any agreement before you sign it.
Getting your roof looked at
If your address is on or near the June 19 band, or you have simply not had the roof looked at since, we will come out, walk it, photograph every slope and give you a written verdict and an itemized price. That is free and there is no obligation attached to it. Call (612) 282-8092 or send us a note, or read more about our storm damage work.