Repair King inspects and repairs roofs across Maple Grove, one of the largest suburbs we serve northwest of the Twin Cities. We flew and walked the big shingle roof at the Hilton Garden Inn on Vinewood Lane, inspected the ballasted rubber roof at Paradise Car Wash by Arbor Lakes after the August 2019 hail, walked the Coratel Inn roof on Forestview Lane, and documented homes in north Maple Grove. We pull the City of Maple Grove roofing permit and hand you a dated photo report either way.
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″ hail near Maple Grove on July 13, 2024. Here is the time left on that one-year mark.
One-year mark:
No 1″+ hail reported near Maple Grove in the last 12 months. The last report was 1″ near Maple Grove on July 13, 2024. If hail hits today, here is what one year really looks like:
A city report can miss your street. Check your exact address for free: hail dates, sizes and how close it came.
Hail dates: local weather and meteorology reports near Maple Grove. 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).
It takes a drone, a ladder and a lot of chalk. At the Hilton Garden Inn in Maple Grove, a three-story hotel with a roof broken into dozens of gables and hips, our May 2019 inspection combined drone photos of every slope with hands-on checks: chalk-marked, measured hail hits on the shingles, and dents on the metal exhaust hoods and air-conditioning condenser fins.
The Hilton Garden Inn Minneapolis/Maple Grove opened in April 2003 as a three-story, roughly 120-room hotel near I-494, with a glass-walled pavilion lobby out front. From the parking lot the roof looks simple. From the air it's a long run of shingle slopes, gable ends, hips and valleys wrapped around courtyards and a flat-roofed pool and lobby section. Every one of those slopes faces a different direction, so hail that misses one side can hit the next.
That's why we don't guess from the ground on a building like this. Our crew walked the shingle slopes and chalk-circled individual hits with a tape in the photo for scale, marked test areas slope by slope, and checked the soft metals that tell the story fastest: round exhaust hoods and the fins on the rooftop condensers. The drone filled in what a ladder can't reach safely on a three-story wall.
Hotels add one more rule: guests are sleeping under the roof. We plan access, staging and photo days around the front desk, so the inspection doesn't take rooms out of service. Maple Grove's hotels, car washes and restaurants around Arbor Lakes all share that problem, and it's the same careful process whether the roof is 120 rooms or one family's house.
Our best-known Maple Grove roof is the Hilton Garden Inn on Vinewood Lane. We've also inspected the rubber roof at Paradise Car Wash by Arbor Lakes and the shingle roof at the Coratel Inn on Forestview Lane. These are busy buildings, so we plan every visit around guests and customers.
Our crew and drone documented the hotel's hip-and-gable shingle roof in May 2019: chalk-marked hail hits measured on the slopes, and dented exhaust hoods and condenser fins photographed on the roof.
After the August 2019 hail, we inspected the car wash's ballasted black rubber roof and the curved roof feature over the building. Our photos show dents in the membrane, dented metal coping, and water-stained ceiling tiles inside.
We walked the full length of the Coratel Inn's shingle roof, chalk-marking and photographing hail hits section by section and checking every vent and pipe boot across the building.
Maple Grove grew from a 19th-century farm township into one of the Twin Cities' largest suburbs, and the roofs we see reflect nearly every decade of that growth.
Some of the homes we've inspected date to the 1970s and 80s, with distinctive rooflines, original siding and decades of exposure. We check these for more than hail: split trim, failed caulking and, on at least one job, woodpecker damage to the siding.
Maple Grove's Main Street-style retail and hospitality core, including hotels like the Coratel Inn, means more low-slope and standard shingle commercial roofs packed close together.
Maple Grove's population nearly doubled between 2000 and 2020, and many of the newer subdivisions ring Elm Creek Park Reserve, Three Rivers Park District's largest park reserve. These roofs are younger but complex, with more valleys and roofline breaks.
Homes near Maple Grove's community parks see more tree cover and longer wind fetch off the lakes, a combination that adds both moss and wind-lift concerns to a routine inspection.
Real Maple Grove jobs from our job albums, with photos our crews took on site. We describe what the photos show, not outcomes or dollar amounts.
Local storm reports show hail up to 3 inches near our Maple Grove job sites on August 5, 2019, the largest recorded near the city since 2015, and Hennepin County has logged 7 separate hail days of 1 inch or larger near Maple Grove in that span. Maple Grove's most severe storm on record predates that data: on July 23, 1987, an F3 tornado tore through the city during the Twin Cities' "Storm of the Century," destroying roughly 14 homes and damaging hundreds more. Hail and wind on a much smaller scale hit again on June 16, 2025, with tree damage reported near Bass Lake Road and Vicksburg Lane. Storm damage doesn't have to be dramatic to matter: hail can crack shingles and dent soft metals without a mark visible from the ground.
| Date | Type | What was reported | What to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2025 | Wind | Damaging wind reported (trees/limbs down) | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
| Aug 29, 2024 | Wind | 60 mph wind gust measured | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
| Aug 3, 2024 | Wind | 60 mph wind gust measured | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
| Jul 13, 2024 | Wind | 62 mph wind gust measured | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
| Jul 13, 2024 | Hail | 1" hail reported | Shingles, roof vents, gutters, siding, window screens |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Hail | 1.5" hail reported | Shingles, roof vents, gutters, siding, window screens |
| Jul 19, 2023 | Wind | 58 mph wind gust measured | Missing or creased shingles, ridge caps, flashing, siding |
Source: Local weather and meteorology reports within 3 miles of Maple Grove 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 Maple Grove properties, from our job albums and CompanyCam.
Yes. The City of Maple Grove requires a building permit for every roofing project. Its 2026 fee schedule sets the roofing or siding permit at $100 for a single- or two-family home and $50 per unit for townhouses; apartment buildings are priced on project valuation.
The City of Maple Grove requires a building permit for every roofing project, residential or commercial. Permits are issued at the time of application through the city's ePermits system or in person at the Maple Grove Government Center on Arbor Lakes Parkway.
City fee schedule sets roofing/siding permit fees for single- and two-family homes and by unit for townhomes; commercial roofs like the Coratel Inn follow a separate commercial permit process.
Repair King pulls the permit under our Minnesota contractor license (BC695228) and schedules the city's inspection for both home and commercial roofs.
On multi-building or commercial properties, we coordinate roof access and business-hours scheduling in writing before work starts.
Maple Grove was platted as a township in 1858 and didn't become a city until 1974, but it's grown into one of the largest suburbs northwest of the Twin Cities, with population more than doubling between 2000 and 2020. The Bottineau House, built in 1854 by early settler Pierre Bottineau, still stands, moved to Elm Creek Park Reserve, Three Rivers Park District's largest park. Arbor Lakes and the Shoppes at Arbor Lakes anchor the city's commercial core with a Main Street-style retail district, hotels and restaurants, including the Coratel Inn we've worked on. From the older homes near the original township roads to new construction ringing Elm Creek and Weaver Lake, call or text after a storm and we'll get your roof inspected.
Yes. The City of Maple Grove requires a building permit for every roofing project. Repair King pulls the permit under our Minnesota contractor license (BC695228) and schedules the city's inspection.
Yes. We've inspected the Hilton Garden Inn on Vinewood Lane, the rubber roof at Paradise Car Wash near Arbor Lakes, and the shingle roof at the Coratel Inn on Forestview Lane. We plan commercial visits around guests and customers.
The City of Maple Grove's 2026 fee schedule lists $100 for roofing or siding on a single- or two-family home and $50 per unit for townhouses. Apartment buildings are based on project valuation. We pull the permit under our license.
An F3 tornado struck Maple Grove on July 23, 1987 during the Twin Cities' "Storm of the Century," destroying about 14 homes and damaging hundreds more. More recent local storm reports show hail up to 3 inches near the city on August 5, 2019.
Local storm reports put hail up to 3 inches near Maple Grove on August 5, 2019. We inspected Paradise Car Wash near Arbor Lakes that same month and photographed dents in its rubber roof and metal coping, and water stains on ceiling tiles inside.
Local storm reports show 7 separate hail days of 1 inch or larger near Maple Grove since 2015, the largest at 3 inches on August 5, 2019. Run a free Roof & Storm Report to see the history for your exact address.
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