Two-story home in Lakeville, MN photographed by Repair King during a roof inspection, July 2023

Lakeville, Minnesota

Lakeville roofing, hail repair & storm inspections

Repair King inspects, documents and repairs roofs across Lakeville, from the courts off Javelin Avenue to homes along the county's numbered street grid south of 170th Street. We chalk-mark and photograph every hail hit we find, pull the City of Lakeville roofing permit, and follow the state code's tear-off and ice-barrier rules on every re-roof.

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17Lakeville projects in our job records (2022–2026)

1,110Lakeville job photos in our records

1.75"Largest hail reported near our Lakeville job sites since 2015 (July 3, 2023)

2009Licensed Minnesota contractor (BC695228) since

The Hail Clock · Lakeville

When hail hits Lakeville, you get one year.

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.

Checking local weather and meteorology reports for Lakeville…

Local storm reports
Hail 1″ and larger
Last 12 months

NO MAJOR HAIL IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS

No 1″+ hail reported near Lakeville in the last 12 months. The last report was 1.25″ near Lakeville on August 15, 2025. If hail hits today, here is what one year really looks like:

Roofing weatherWinter: roofing slows or stops

0real roofing days left after winter and an example 60-day claim process

0days until winter (mid-Nov) slows roofing

Hail is block by block.

A city report can miss your street. Check your exact address for free: hail dates, sizes and how close it came.

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Hail dates: local weather and meteorology reports near Lakeville. 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).

Lakeville, in their words

Dean & Ginger Ward on their roof, deck and storm repairs

I felt very comfortable because of his professionalism. He allowed me not to sign a piece of paper until I spoke with my husband, because my husband wasn't home at the time, and a lot of the contractors weren't allowing that.

Dean & Ginger WardHomeowners, Lakeville, MN

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[Ginger] We first met Mike when he came to our door after a storm, and it was very nice. He was very professional, and he was professionally dressed. As a woman alone at home, when he stopped and rang the doorbell after a storm, he was actually non-threatening. I felt very comfortable because of his professionalism, and he continued that throughout. He allowed me not to sign a piece of paper until I spoke with my husband, because my husband wasn't home at the time, and a lot of the contractors weren't allowing that, so that was very helpful for us as well. The other thing he did was give me a card so that I could research him online and make sure he really was who he said he was, and then talk to some other people in the neighborhood and in the area, so I could see what he had done. That professionalism kept going throughout the whole job, because he continued to have good cleanup. If I had any questions, even on a Saturday night, I had his phone number to call, which was very helpful for me, so I wasn't stressed out about how the job was going. [Dean] We didn't know who to go to. We'd never had any issues before and never had to have any contractor work before. Mike was able to help us out, because we had multiple things we had to deal with on the house. We had our roof, we had damage to the garage door, we had damage to the deck and the fencing. We had all kinds of different things. Mike was able to come in with his company, Repair King, work all those different angles and bring everybody else in for us. [Ginger] We were very lucky to meet Mike with Repair King, who gave us a wonderful experience out of something that wasn't. Because of his professionalism and Repair King, I would definitely recommend that you give him a call.

Repair King crew member on a Lakeville roof torn down to the OSB deck, with the first underlayment rolled out, September 2023

Lakeville's July 2023 storms

What did Lakeville's two July 2023 hailstorms leave behind?

Local storm reports put 1.75-inch hail near our Lakeville job sites on July 3, 2023, and 1-inch hail a week later on July 10. Repair King opened five Lakeville project files that July, covering four homes, three of them on Javelin Avenue and Javelin Court. The inspection photos show chalk-marked hail hits on shingles, and follow-up work at those homes ran into the fall of 2023 and the summer of 2024.

Two hail days a week apart is hard on a roof. Damage from the first storm is easy to confuse with the second, and many homeowners don't look up at all until a neighbor's dumpster shows up. That is why our Lakeville files from that month start with the same thing: every slope walked, each hit circled in chalk and photographed, and the vents, gutters and window wraps checked.

What happened next was different at each house. On one Javelin Court home, the crew tore the roof down to the OSB deck in September 2023 and laid new synthetic underlayment before shingling. On the same court, the follow-up photos in October 2023 focus on the siding, window wraps and screens, and new charcoal lap siding went on in June 2024. The storms were the same, but the damage and the fix were not.

Hail has kept coming since. Local weather reports show 1-inch hail on July 27, 2025, and 1.25-inch hail on August 15, 2025, near our Lakeville job sites. A roof that looked fine in 2023 can still be worth another look.

Around Lakeville

Where we've been working in Lakeville

Lakeville is nearly 37 square miles, Dakota County's largest city, and the street grid changes character block by block.

Javelin Ave & Javelin Ct

Several of our Lakeville jobs sit on this short cluster of courts, where single-family homes from the 1990s and 2000s are now due for a first or second re-roof.

The numbered street grid south of 170th St

Addresses like 174th St W, 178th St W and 210th St W follow Dakota County's continuous section-line numbering. Homes here range from established ranches to newer two-story builds, and lot sizes tend to be larger.

Near Lake Marion & Antlers Park

Closer to the lake, mature trees mean more moss, debris and shaded slopes to check, especially on north-facing roof planes.

Hyland Ave & the 215th St corridor

Newer construction toward the edges of town, with more complex rooflines and multiple valleys that need extra attention to flashing.

Lakeville homes & buildings

What are Lakeville homes built like?

Lakeville's housing is young by Twin Cities standards. The city had 7,851 households in 1990 and 23,265 in 2020, and census estimates put the median home's construction in the late 1990s. That means thousands of roofs from the same building boom are reaching their first or second replacement at about the same time.

Local factor	What we see in Lakeville	Why it matters for repairs
Housing age	Households roughly tripled between 1990 and 2020 (Met Council / Census). Median year built is about 1998.	Many original builder-grade shingles are at the end of their life. Deciding between repair and replacement starts with the shingle's age as well as the hail.
Home types	About 73% single-family detached and about 16% attached homes such as twin homes and townhomes. 87.8% of homes are owner-occupied.	Attached homes share a roof line, so a repair on one side affects the neighbor's side. We check who owns which section before quoting.
Roofs we see	In our Lakeville job photos: asphalt shingle hip and gable roofs, 3-tab on older ramblers, laminated shingles on newer two-story homes, box vents and brick chimneys.	Aluminum box vents dent easily in hail and are some of the clearest evidence of a storm. Chimneys often need new step and counter flashing during a re-roof.
Siding	Vinyl lap siding on most of the homes in our Lakeville files, with aluminum-wrapped window trim.	Hail can crack or chip vinyl and dent the wraps. We check all four sides of the house, because the damage usually shows on the side that faced the storm.
Trees & lakes	Emerald ash borer was found in Lakeville in 2017, and the city now describes the infestation as widespread. Lake Marion, Orchard Lake and Valley Lake sit inside city limits.	Dying ash trees turn brittle, so limbs over a roof become a risk in wind. Shaded slopes near lakes and woods hold moisture and moss.
Commercial stock	Airlake Industrial Park covers about 1,500 acres and is one of Minnesota's largest contiguous industrial parks. The old Argonne Farms area was redeveloped into retail in the 21st century.	Low-slope commercial roofs need membrane, seam and coping checks, not shingle counts. They get a separate inspection approach.

Project files

Lakeville project files

Five Lakeville-area homes from our records. The details come straight from the job photos, drone footage and capture dates.

Drone view of the Ward family's walkout rambler with a Lakeville address: new gray shingle roof, rebuilt wood deck and stairs, and the white vinyl pool fence, spring 2019

Roof, deck, garage door and fence after hail

Property: Walkout rambler on an acreage lot with a Lakeville (55044) address, just outside city limits in New Market Township, Scott County
Work: Full roof replacement and a complete rebuild of the rear deck, plus the garage door and fencing. Repair King coordinated every trade on the job, so the homeowners had one contact from start to finish
Found: Hail damage to the roof, the garage door, the deck and the fencing (in the homeowners' words: "all kinds of different things")
Result: New asphalt shingle roof and an entirely rebuilt deck, shown in our drone footage. Dean and Ginger Ward recorded a video about the job (above)
When: Finished by spring 2019

Crew installing synthetic roofing underlayment beside a brick chimney on a Lakeville home, September 2023

Javelin Court: roof torn off to the deck

Property: Single-family home on Javelin Court, north Lakeville
Work: Hail inspection, then a full tear-off and re-roof
Found: Chalk-marked hail hits on the shingles in the July 2023 inspection photos, which also cover the ridge line and chimney flashing
Result: Old shingles removed down to the OSB deck. Crews laid new synthetic underlayment and re-flashed the chimney, with new shingle bundles staged on the roof.
When: July 2023 inspection; roof work September 2023

New charcoal lap siding, white soffit and downspout on a Lakeville home, June 2024

Javelin Court: from hail inspection to new siding

Property: Two-story home on Javelin Court
Work: Roof and exterior inspection, then siding and trim replacement
Found: Chalk-circled hail hits on the shingles in the fall 2023 photos. Follow-up photos covered the siding, window wraps, screens and soffit vents.
Result: New charcoal lap siding, soffit and aluminum trim wraps installed
When: July and October 2023 inspections; siding work June 2024

Yellow rambler with a brown hip roof in south Lakeville during a winter roof inspection, January 2024

210th Street West: winter hail inspection

Property: Rambler near the I-35 corridor in south Lakeville
Work: Hail inspection of the roof, vents and exterior
Found: Close-up photos of the brown 3-tab shingles slope by slope, plus the metal roof box vents
When: January 2024

Overhead view of hip ridges and valleys on a Lakeville shingle roof during an inspection, May 2022

161st Street West: spring 2022 storm check

Property: Two-story home in north Lakeville
Work: Roof inspection after the May 2022 hail
Found: Spots on the shingles marked and photographed against a measuring scale, including a shingle with its granule surface broken open. The photos also cover the hip ridges, valleys and vents.
When: May 2022

Hail & storm history

When storms last hit Lakeville

Lakeville sits in the same hail corridor that runs through Burnsville and Apple Valley. Local storm reports put 1.25-inch hail near our Lakeville 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 the same pattern, with a 64 mph gust on August 27, 2022, and a 58 mph gust on August 27, 2024. Hail that size can crack shingles and dent gutters, vent caps and AC fins without anything looking wrong from the ground. Since 2015, local weather reports show 11 separate days with hail of 1 inch or larger near our Lakeville addresses, including July 27, 2025 (1 inch) and July 10, 2023 (1 inch).

Aug 15, 2025Last hail report near Lakeville (1.25")

1.75"Largest hail reported near Lakeville since 2015 (Jul 3, 2023)

11Days with 1"+ hail reported near Lakeville since 2015

Date	Type	What was reported	What to check
Aug 15, 2025	Hail	1.25" hail reported	Shingles, roof vents, gutters, siding, window screens
Jul 27, 2025	Hail	1" hail reported	Shingles, roof vents, gutters, siding, window screens
Aug 27, 2024	Wind	58 mph wind gust measured	Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding
Jul 10, 2023	Hail	1" hail reported	Shingles, roof vents, gutters, siding, window screens
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 Lakeville 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.

What our inspection covers

Every shingle slope walked and chalk-marked hits photographed
Soft metals checked: vent caps, gutters, downspouts, window wraps, AC fins
Siding and window screens checked on all four elevations
Dated, GPS-tagged photo report you keep

Check your own address

Our free Roof & Storm Report looks up hail and wind history for your exact address, not just the city.

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Job photos

Real Lakeville jobs, from our job files

Dean and Ginger Ward in front of their finished Repair King roof and new garage doors, Lakeville address, spring 2019

Two-story home in Lakeville photographed during a roof inspection, August 2025

Chalk-marked hail hit on a Lakeville shingle roof, July 2023

Ridge line and chimney flashing on a Lakeville roof during an inspection, July 2023

Ranch-style home in Lakeville photographed during a roof project, May 2022

Chimney flashing and roof vents on a Lakeville home during an inspection, October 2025

Photos taken by Repair King crews at Lakeville-area properties; the Ward photo is a still from their 2019 project video. Other dates are the capture dates from our job camera.

Codes & permits

Do you need a permit to replace a roof in Lakeville?

Yes. The City of Lakeville requires a building permit for every re-roof, applied for online through the city's BS&A permitting system, and the roofing contractor must hold a state license. The only required inspection is a final, and the city now lets the contractor email photos of the underlayment and ice-and-water layer instead of posting them on site.

The City of Lakeville requires a building permit for roof replacement, applied for online through the city's permitting system. Repair King pulls the permit under our Minnesota contractor license (BC695228).

Lakeville's re-roofing guide requires a full tear-off where the existing roof has deteriorated too far to serve as a base, or where there are already two or more layers of shingles - we check this before quoting so there are no surprises once the old roof comes off.

State code requires an ice barrier extending from the eave to at least 24 inches inside the exterior wall line on every re-roof, which we install and photograph as standard practice.

Lakeville accepts re-roofing underlayment and ice-and-water photos by email to [email protected], referencing the permit number and address. Once the photos are processed, the city schedules an anytime final inspection. You don't have to be home, but the inspector needs free access to the whole property. We photograph those layers on every job anyway, so the photos are ready to send.

The city's Residential Re-roofing Guide also calls for valley flashing at least 24 inches wide, a cricket on the uphill side of any chimney wider than 30 inches, and attic ventilation of at least 1 square foot per 150 square feet of attic (or 1 per 300 with balanced high and low vents). The final inspection checks venting, flashing and installation and doesn't require access into the home.

Local

What makes Lakeville different from other south-metro suburbs?

Lakeville became a city because of an industrial park. In 1966 Hitchcock Industries bought 1,400 acres of farmland for what became Airlake Industrial Park, the village and township merged into the City of Lakeville in 1967, and the first Pan-O-Prog festival that year celebrated the park's opening.

Lakeville grew from a road built in 1853 to connect two military forts into Dakota County's largest city, with a 2020 census population of 69,490 - Minnesota's 10th most populous city. Lake Marion has been a local landmark since 1910, when Antlers Park opened on its shore with a dance pavilion, swimming beach and boat dock, built by Colonel Marion Savage to draw riders onto his Dan Patch rail line. Our job addresses run from the courts near that lake out to the newer numbered streets on the edges of town.

Inspect first

Storm damage in Lakeville: what should you do first?

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.

1 · InspectWe check the roof, soft metals, gutters, siding and windows, and we check the storm history for your address.

2 · DocumentYou get a dated photo report of everything we observe, damage or not.

3 · DecideYou choose the next step: repair, replace, or keep an eye on it. We explain the repair options and give you a written estimate.

Repair King is a licensed Minnesota contractor (BC695228). We are not a public adjuster and do not negotiate insurance claims. Questions about your policy belong with your insurance company.

Owner resources

Lakeville property owner resources

Official links worth bookmarking, whether or not you ever hire us.

FAQ

Lakeville roofing questions

Does Lakeville require a permit to replace my roof?

Yes. The City of Lakeville requires a building permit for roof replacement, applied for online, and Repair King pulls it under our Minnesota contractor license (BC695228).

Does Lakeville require a full tear-off?

It can. The city's re-roofing guide calls for a tear-off when the existing roof is too deteriorated to serve as a base, or when there are already two or more layers of shingles. We check this during the inspection so you know what to expect before we quote the job.

When did hail last hit Lakeville?

Local storm reports show 1.25-inch hail near Lakeville on August 15, 2025, and the largest hail reported here since 2015, 1.75 inches, on July 3, 2023. Run a free Roof & Storm Report for the history at your exact address.

Do I need to be home for Lakeville's final roof inspection?

No. Lakeville accepts underlayment and ice-and-water photos by email, then schedules an anytime final inspection. You don't need to be there, but the inspector needs free access to the entire property, and the re-roof final does not require going inside the home.

My address says Lakeville, but I'm outside city limits. Who issues the roof permit?

It depends on the parcel. Some Lakeville (55044) mailing addresses sit in neighboring townships, such as New Market Township in Scott County, where Scott County Building Inspections issues reroof permits instead of the City of Lakeville. We check the jurisdiction for your exact parcel before a permit is pulled.

My roof was checked after the July 2023 storms. Should I have it checked again?

It's worth considering. Local weather reports show 1-inch hail near Lakeville on July 27, 2025, and 1.25-inch hail on August 15, 2025, both after the 2023 storms. A new photo report shows whether anything has changed since your last inspection.

Do dying ash trees matter for my Lakeville roof?

They can. Lakeville says emerald ash borer, first found in the city in 2017, is now widespread, and ash trees become brittle as they die. Limbs hanging over a roof are a wind risk, so we note them in our photo report, and the city's forestry staff can answer tree questions.

What do I get from a Repair King inspection?

A dated photo report covering roof slopes, vents, flashing, gutters, siding and windows, so you have a clear record of your home's condition. We document what we find; coverage questions go to your insurer.

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