Colorado’s Front Range faces a risk of hail damage unlike any other area in the country and it also happens to be a part of the country where homeowners have installed solar panels on their r…
Hail can pummel the Front Range, as this photo of the aftermath of a 2019 storm in Denver show. Colorado has the highest share of counties at a high risk of hail damage, and it also has a relatively high share of homes with solar panels. The combination is a costly one when it comes to hail damages, according to a study from Roof Gnome.
Of that hail-prone group, the counties most at risk of suffering the heaviest financial losses were concentrated along Colorado’s Front Range and Eastern Plains, the southern half of Nebraska, western Kansas, central Oklahoma and northern and central Texas. Maricopa County in Arizona also ranked highly.
The study looked at three factors including the financial risk involved, the vulnerability of structures and an incident scale, which looked at the number of people in a given area searching the Internet using hail damage-related terms. Increasingly, they are also shattering expensive solar panels, which is becoming a costly issue in Colorado. Four Colorado counties at high risk for hail damage were also among the top 10 counties in the U.S. for rooftop solar installations, Roof Gnome found.Colorado car insurance rates among fastest rising in country and more increases expected
The study didn’t rank areas by the number of tornadoes or high wind events or wind speeds. Rather it looked at the risk of financial damage when severe windstorms did occur.
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