Claremore Roofing at the Foot of the Ozarks
Claremore's storm surveys name the trees that came down: hackberry, hickory, maple. That tells you more about your roof's risk than any forecast.
Shingles Off the West Side of a Roof
On June 17, 2023, a 65 knot storm crossed Claremore, and one survey from that afternoon is unusually precise. The wind "removed the majority of shingles from the west side of a roof," and the same record names a maple. Not a roof, but one side of a roof.
That detail matters for anyone in Claremore trying to judge their own roof. Wind damage is directional. The slope facing the storm takes the load, and the slope behind the ridge can come through untouched. If you checked your roof from the front yard after June 2023 and it looked fine, you may have been looking at the wrong side.
Older damage is on the record too. On August 25, 2016, a 61 knot storm "damaged the roof of a business" in Claremore, one of 22 significant events logged here between 2016 and 2026.
Hackberry, Hickory, and Maple
The strongest wind on Claremore's record, 75 knots on June 17, 2023, "blew down several large hackberry and hickory trees." Few storm surveys bother to name species. This one did, and with the maple in the shingle record from the same day, it gives Claremore something most towns do not have: evidence of exactly what is growing over the roofs.
Hardwoods like Claremore's hackberry and hickory are a slow-motion problem for a roof between storms and a fast one during them. In ordinary weather, overhanging limbs rub and scour shingles, drop leaves and twigs into valleys, and shade slopes that then stay damp long enough to grow moss. In a storm, a limb from a mature hardwood is heavy enough to break through the decking, not just the shingles.
So on a Claremore lot with big trees, the inspection includes the canopy: which limbs overhang the roof, how close, and which way they would fall.
Will Rogers, Radium Water, and an Old Downtown
Claremore's post office opened on June 25, 1874, in what was then the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory. The town is named for the Osage chief Clermont, whose village was destroyed in the 1817 Battle of Claremore Mound; the modern spelling came from a postal clerk's error. The sources disagree on when Claremore incorporated, 1896 or May 2, 1903, and it became the seat of Rogers County after statehood in 1907.
In 1903, drillers looking for oil struck artesian mineral water instead, and the town built an early tourist trade on it. The Will Rogers Hotel, now senior apartments and on the National Register, was once famous for its radium mineral-water baths, and Mendenhall's Bath House is on the Register too. Belvidere Mansion was completed in 1907. The Will Rogers Memorial Museum, holding his tomb, was dedicated on November 4, 1938, on 20 acres given by his widow, Betty. The J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum and Rogers State University, founded in 1909, round out a town of 19,580 at the 2020 Census.
Claremore buildings from the era of the Will Rogers Hotel and Belvidere have very likely had more than one roof, and the work on them deserves a roofer who checks what is underneath before quoting what goes on top.
Blue Starr, Clubhouse and the West Side
Claremore sits in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, which sets it apart from the flat river towns closer to Tulsa. On rolling ground you would expect some Claremore houses to sit exposed on high spots and others tucked into low, wooded ones, and the storm record picks out several places by name.
Blue Starr Drive and Clubhouse Road
On May 11, 2017, a 70 knot storm "uprooted a tree, snapped numerous large tree limbs, and snapped power poles along Blue Starr Drive and Clubhouse Road on the northwest side." Uprooting is a different failure from snapping: it means the ground let go, and the whole tree, roots and all, went over. A house within reach of a tree like that is at risk of structural damage, not just shingle damage.
Heritage Hills Golf Course
On August 26, 2019, a 65 knot storm "blew down trees at the Heritage Hills Golf Course" on the west side. Open ground like a golf course lets wind build speed with nothing to slow it, and a Claremore house facing that kind of open stretch takes gusts at full strength. On a lot like that, the edges of the roof, the rakes and the ridge are where an inspection starts.
Claremore Lake and Dog Creek
Claremore Lake was formed in 1929 and 1930 by damming Dog Creek. Houses near open water live with the same wind exposure as houses facing the golf course, plus more humidity, which shows up as algae streaking on the shaded slopes.
Close by
We serve Claremore alongside Verdigris, Catoosa and Oologah, all from the same Jenks shop.
Rogers County Hail
Claremore's hail record is short, but its worst entry is serious. On March 27, 2020, the town logged 2.00 inch hail, and the survey reads "Large hail damaged vehicles, and the roofs of homes and businesses." It is one of seven hail events of an inch or more at Claremore between 2016 and 2026.
A March storm is easy to forget by the time summer arrives, and hail damage from March 2020 has had every Oklahoma summer since to work on. If your roof was on the ground then and has never been looked at, it is worth knowing what that storm left behind. Our insurance claim help page covers what to do if it turns out to be covered damage.
Free Roof Inspection
We will check every slope of your Claremore roof, including the one that faced the storm, and the trees over it. The inspection is free and the photos are yours.