Repair King has inspected, documented or worked on 19 Apple Valley properties, from courts in Heritage Hills to homes near Palomino Woods, the newer streets off Flagstaff Avenue and the Wildwood Townhomes association. We chalk-mark and photograph every hail hit we find, pull the City of Apple Valley roofing permit, and shoot the ice-and-water, street-view and roof-penetration photos the city now uses to approve a finished roof.
Many Minnesota policies give you one year from the hail date. You shouldn't have to know that date, so we checked local weather and meteorology reports for you.
Local weather reports show 1.25″ hail near Apple Valley on August 15, 2025. Here is the time left on that one-year mark.
One-year mark:
No 1″+ hail reported near Apple Valley in the last 12 months. The last report was 1.25″ near Apple Valley on August 15, 2025. If hail hits today, here is what one year really looks like:
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Hail dates: local weather and meteorology reports near Apple Valley. Winter: local weather records for Minneapolis-St. Paul, 30 winters, July 1996 to June 2026: an average of 107 days a year never get above 40°F (range 76 to 136). General information, not legal advice. Your policy's "Suit Against Us" section sets your actual deadline, and some claims get two years (Minn. Stat. §65A.01) instead of one (§65A.26).
Because townhomes are a big part of the city's housing. The Census Bureau's 2024 five-year American Community Survey counts 6,061 single-family attached homes among Apple Valley's 22,013 housing units, about 28 percent. On those buildings one roof covers several households, so storm or ice damage is usually a building-wide question, not a single-unit one.
Most of Apple Valley's attached homes went up in the city's big growth decades: the same census survey dates 14,026 of its housing units, about 64 percent, to 1970 through 1999. Many of those buildings share long, continuous eaves and connected roof planes. When hail marks one end of a building, the other end usually took the same storm, and a repair on one unit has to tie in to shingles that have weathered for years next door.
Winter shows the same pattern. When we visited the Wildwood Townhomes association in February 2023, the photos show heavy ice dams and icicles running along the eaves of its two-story townhome buildings, unit after unit. For an association board, one building-by-building photo set with dates and GPS tags is easier to act on than a pile of separate calls from individual owners.
Before any work, check who is responsible for the roof: some association documents put it on the association, others leave it with each owner. We work with either, match shingle lines and colors across the building, and give the board or the owner the same photo report.
Apple Valley grew fast after it became a city in 1974, and most of our job addresses sit inside named subdivisions built out over the following two decades.
Courts like Heritage Ct and Hallmark Path sit inside the Heritage Hills additions. Roofs here are mostly original-generation asphalt shingle on cul-de-sac lots, and we see a lot of first re-roofs in this part of town.
Just west of Heritage Hills, with similarly-aged single-family homes on short courts. Mature tree cover means more moss, debris and shaded north slopes to check.
Newer courts including Denmark Ct, Dundee Ave and Dunbar Ct, built with more complex rooflines and multiple valleys. We spend extra time on valley flashing on these roofs.
Homes closer to the zoo and county park land, where open sightlines mean more direct wind exposure on ridge caps and rakes during summer storms.
Apple Valley is mostly a 1970s-1990s suburb with an unusually large share of townhomes. Roughly 64 percent of its homes were built between 1970 and 1999, about 28 percent are single-family attached units, and a solid block of larger apartment buildings adds low-slope commercial roofs to the mix.
| Local factor | What we see in Apple Valley | Why it matters for repairs |
|---|---|---|
| Housing age | 14,026 of 22,013 housing units (about 64%) were built 1970-1999; another 1,553 date to the 1960s, when Orrin Thompson began building here in 1963. | Many roofs are on their second or third shingle cycle. City code requires a full tear-off when a roof already has two or more layers. |
| Townhomes | 6,061 single-family attached units, about 28% of all housing, including association buildings like Wildwood Townhomes. | One roof spans several units, so we document the whole building and match shingles across it. Check whether the association or the owner is responsible for the roof. |
| Apartments & larger buildings | 2,339 units sit in buildings with 50 or more units and 969 in buildings with 20-49 units. | Low-slope commercial roofs fall under the city's commercial flat-roof checklist: written scope, manufacturer product list, fire-rated assembly and, where loads change, a structural engineer. |
| Owners vs. renters | 15,880 of 21,627 occupied homes (about 73%) are owner-occupied; 5,747 are rented. The city requires residential rental properties to be registered. | Rental owners often need photos they can review remotely. Our dated photo report works for owners who don't live on site. |
| Trees | Mature shade trees in the older neighborhoods; the city requires tree care companies to hold an Apple Valley license. A June 9, 2026 weather report near the city noted a large tree down on a house. | Limbs over the roofline scuff shingles, clog gutters and can crack decking in a windstorm, so we check the canopy side of every roof. |
| Roofs, siding & terrain | On our job photos: asphalt shingle roofs over vinyl lap siding, on rolling ground where elevation varies 100 feet or more across the city. | Higher, open lots take harder wind on ridge caps and rakes. Soft metals such as gutters and vent caps show hail that shingles can hide. |
Real Apple Valley jobs from our CompanyCam records, association work first. Every photo below was taken by our crews on site.
Apple Valley sits in the southern Twin Cities hail belt, in the same corridor as Burnsville and Rosemount. Local storm reports put 1.25-inch hail near our Apple Valley job sites on August 15, 2025, and the largest hail reported here since 2015 - 1.75 inches - fell on July 3, 2023. Damaging wind has followed a similar pattern, with a 64 mph gust on August 27, 2022, and 58 mph gusts on both July 14 and August 27, 2024. On June 9, 2026, a delayed report relayed from dispatch described a large tree down on a house about 2 miles north-northwest of Apple Valley. Hail that size can bruise shingles and dent soft metals without leaving anything obvious visible from the driveway, and a falling limb can crack decking that looks fine from the street.
| Date | Type | What was reported | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2026 | Wind | Damaging wind reported (trees/limbs down) | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
| Aug 15, 2025 | Hail | 1.25" hail reported | Shingles, roof vents, gutters, siding, window screens |
| Jul 28, 2025 | Wind | Damaging wind reported (trees/limbs down) | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
| Aug 27, 2024 | Wind | 58 mph wind gust measured | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
| Jul 14, 2024 | Wind | 58 mph wind gust measured | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
| Jul 3, 2023 | Hail | 1.75" hail reported | Shingles, roof vents, gutters, siding, window screens |
Source: Local weather and meteorology reports within 3 miles of Apple Valley properties Repair King has worked on, through September 2026. Reports are from trained spotters and the public; hail can hit a street without a report.
Our free Roof & Storm Report looks up hail and wind history for your exact address, not just the city.
Photos taken by Repair King crews at Apple Valley properties. Dates are the capture dates from our job camera.
Yes. Apple Valley requires a roof replacement permit for any re-roof over 500 square feet and a separate roof repair permit for 500 square feet or less. Since February 15, 2022, the city approves most residential roofs from emailed photos: the ice-and-water underlayment, a street view of the home, and close-ups of every roof penetration.
Repair King pulls the correct permit under our Minnesota contractor license (BC695228) through the city's online ePermits system. When the job is done, the city asks the contractor to call (952) 953-2588 to schedule the ice-and-water/final inspection and email the photos to the Building Inspections department with the address or permit number in the subject line. If the photos don't show enough, the city emails a correction notice.
The photo set the city asks for covers the ice-and-water underlayment, a street-view picture to verify the address, and close-ups of plumbing and mechanical penetrations, flashing, chimney saddles, ridge vents and turtle-back vents. We shoot those as a standard part of every re-roof, so the city's photos and your photo report come from the same set.
Apple Valley's roofing requirements also call for an ice barrier from the eave to at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall on all roofs, including porches and attached garages (not unheated detached buildings); a full tear-off when a roof already has two or more layers or is water-soaked; a cricket behind any chimney or penetration more than 30 inches wide; and kick-out flashing when the roof and siding are replaced together.
Apple Valley's neighborhoods are young by Twin Cities standards. Developer Orrin Thompson started building here in 1963 and planted an apple tree at each home in some of his early developments, and most of the city filled in over the following three decades, which is why so many roofs here are now on their second or third cycle.
Apple Valley was Lebanon Township until 1969. In the 1968 election, residents voted to incorporate and picked the name Apple Valley over Lebanon Valley, 1,376 to 757; the village became a statutory city in 1974. The 2020 census put the population at 56,374, making it the 17th largest city in Minnesota. It's also home to the Minnesota Zoo, one of only two state-supported zoos in the country, which opened here on May 22, 1978. Our job addresses run from the established courts of Heritage Hills and Palomino Woods out to the newer streets near Flagstaff Avenue, all within the same hail corridor that runs through the southern metro.
Start with an inspection, not a decision. A damaged shingle does not automatically mean a roof needs to be replaced. What matters is what the inspection actually finds on the roof, siding, gutters and windows.
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Yes. The City of Apple Valley issues a roof replacement permit for re-roofs over 500 square feet (a smaller repair permit covers 500 square feet or less), applied for through the city's online ePermits system. Repair King pulls the permit under our Minnesota contractor license (BC695228).
The city approves most residential roofs from emailed photos. Since February 15, 2022, the contractor schedules the ice-and-water/final inspection by phone and emails pictures of the ice-and-water underlayment, a street view of the home and close-ups of the roof penetrations; if something is missing, the city sends a correction notice. We take that photo set on every Apple Valley re-roof.
Local storm reports show 1.25-inch hail near Apple Valley on August 15, 2025. The largest hail reported here since 2015 was 1.75 inches, on July 3, 2023. Run a free Roof & Storm Report for the history at your exact address.
It depends on your association's governing documents. Many associations own and replace the roofs; others leave them to each owner. We work with the board, the property manager or the owner, and we document what we find; coverage questions go to your insurer.
Yes, in many cases. The city requires removing the existing roof covering when the roof already has two or more layers, is water-soaked or deteriorated, or is slate, clay, cement or asbestos-cement tile. We tear off to the deck on our re-roofs so damaged sheathing can be replaced.
Yes. The City of Apple Valley requires tree care companies to be licensed to do tree work in the city and publishes a list of licensed contractors. Once the tree is off the roof, we inspect and photograph the decking, shingles and gutters underneath.
It depends on roof size, pitch, stories and shingle line. Get a free Roof & Storm Report online for a basic range, then we confirm it with an on-site inspection.
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