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Roofing in Iredell County, NC

Iredell County's housing splits by town: in Statesville the median owner-occupied home dates from 1973 to 1983, while in Mooresville it falls in the 2000s (2002 to 2006).

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024, table B25037, Statesville city and Mooresville town, checked .

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Housing

How old the homes are in Iredell County

Taken as a whole, Iredell County lands between the two: its owner-occupied median year built is 1997, with a 90% interval of 1995 to 1999.

The 1990s and 2000s together account for 46.2% of the county's owner-occupied homes, 21.0% from the first of those decades and 25.3% from the second. Homes built before 1980 make up 24.4%.

The gap between the two towns shows in their pre-1980 shares as well: 52.0% of Statesville's owner-occupied homes predate 1980, against 12.4% of Mooresville's.

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Permits

Permits for a reroof in Iredell County

On September 5, 2023, the Town of Mooresville's Building Permitting & Inspections Department took over plan review, permits and inspections for the town and its extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ) from Iredell County Building Standards, which had handled them until then.

Iredell County Building Standards remains the county government's own permit office, at 349 N Center Street in Statesville. It issues permits for all contractor trades and carries out field inspections under the North Carolina building codes, and its central permitting and inspection scheduling line is 704-878-3113.

Mooresville's department, created in 2023, ended the need for town residents to travel to Statesville for county permits. It works from One Mooresville Center at 750 W. Iredell Avenue (704-799-4268) and takes applications through an online portal.

North Carolina rule

Under G.S. 160D-1110(c), work on a single-family home that costs $40,000 or less and follows the current edition of the North Carolina State Building Code needs no building permit, unless it falls into one of six listed categories. One category is "the addition of roofing, excluding replacement": that work needs a permit at any cost, while a roof replacement is not on the list. Work costing more than $40,000 falls outside the exemption. The statute speaks to building permits only, not to any other approval a property may need.

The $40,000 figure comes from Session Law 2023-108 (House Bill 488), which raised it from $20,000 for permit applications submitted on or after October 1, 2023.

The Office of State Fire Marshal reads the exemption as covering the replacement of roofing plus up to 15% of the total existing roof deck, on projects costing $40,000 or less. The paper states that its guidance is not legal advice.

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Storms

Recorded storm damage in Iredell County

In Iredell, the ice storm of December 4 and 5, 2002 began as snow. The NOAA narrative filed with the county's zone record describes 3 to 5 inches of snow across the foothills and northwest piedmont by late evening on the 4th, followed by sleet and then freezing rain. That zone record lists $10 million in property damage.

The F2 tornado of July 7, 2005 touched down in the Houstonville area and tracked almost due north into Yadkin County. The National Weather Service found extensive damage at a dairy farm in the Houstonville community, and along its path the roof was torn off a mobile home and another home.

An EF2 tornado on May 24, 2017 touched down near Elmwood and moved northeast. Where it was strongest, the National Weather Service survey found a brick home with its roof completely removed and its interior walls collapsed, and debris from that house and from trees struck the outside of neighboring homes.

  1. Ice Storm

    , $10M in recorded property damage. NOAA event 5326409

  2. Tornado, F2

    , near HARMONY, $2M in recorded property damage. NOAA event 5470135

  3. High Wind, 60 kt

    , $500K in recorded property damage. NOAA event 29380

  4. Tornado, EF2

    , near ELMWOOD, $250K in recorded property damage. NOAA event 703177

  5. High Wind, 60 kt

    , $200K in recorded property damage. NOAA event 1000804

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Hail

Recorded hail in Iredell County

Large hail in Iredell County is spread out over time. Since 2000 it has come on 17 days in 11 different years, for a total of 19 NOAA reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, with begin locations as far apart as Union Grove and Mooresville.

The largest of those reports is also the newest: on June 26, 2023, media and the public reported hail up to 2 inches in diameter in the Union Grove area near the Wilkes County line.

  1. 2.00 in hail

    , near NEW HOPE. NOAA event 1120311

  2. 1.75 in hail

    , near LORAY. NOAA event 676342

  3. 1.75 in hail

    , near NEW HOPE. NOAA event 404362

  4. 1.75 in hail

    , near MOORESVILLE ARPT. NOAA event 372010

  5. 1.75 in hail

    , near UNION GROVE. NOAA event 316694

NOAA record through June 2026.

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Towns

Town by town in Iredell County

  • Mooresville

    On August 7, 2023, an EF1 tornado snapped limbs and uprooted trees on a Lake Norman peninsula, then crossed the north side of Mooresville, and NOAA's record notes that some trees fell on homes in the Mooresville area.

  • Statesville

    NOAA's record for June 23, 2008 counts 24 public reports of hail to the southwest and west of Statesville, ranging from penny to golf-ball size, and lists the largest at 1.75 inches.

  • Troutman

    Troutman's owner-occupied homes are young: the Census Bureau's 90% interval puts their median year built between 2006 and 2014.

  • Davidson

    Davidson is mostly a Mecklenburg County town: at the 2020 Census, 378 of its 15,106 residents lived on the Iredell side.

    Davidson spans Iredell County and Mecklenburg County.

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Common problems

Common roof problems on homes like these

Two estimates from InterNACHI's life expectancy chart frame the roof-age question: about 20 years for a 3-tab asphalt shingle roof and about 30 for architectural shingles. The inspectors' association says its figures should be used as guidelines only.

If a house built between 1990 and 2009 still has its original asphalt roof, that roof is 17 to 36 years old in 2026: most of that range is past the 3-tab estimate, and the older end is past the architectural one too. Those two decades are the largest groups among the county's owner-occupied homes.

Lakeside outbuildings take wind damage too. NOAA's record of the thunderstorm winds of August 18, 2024 describes boat houses in the Lake Norman area with their roofs blown off, and trees falling onto and damaging structures.

In the National Weather Service surveys of the 2005 F2 and 2017 EF2 tornadoes, the damage to houses went beyond fallen trees: roofs were torn off or removed outright.

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FAQ

Roofing questions in Iredell County

Which office issues building permits in Mooresville now?

The Town of Mooresville does, through its Building Permitting & Inspections Department at One Mooresville Center, 750 W. Iredell Avenue. Iredell County Building Standards handed over code enforcement for the town and its extraterritorial jurisdiction on September 5, 2023, so Mooresville building permit applications no longer go to the county office in Statesville. The town department's phone number is 704-799-4268.

If the county issued my Mooresville permit before September 2023, who inspects the work?

Iredell County Building Standards. The county's notice on the handover says that permits for work in Mooresville and its extraterritorial jurisdiction issued before September 5, 2023 remain under the county's jurisdiction, and that the county continues to inspect those projects through completion.

How do Troutman permit applications work?

In Troutman, permit applications for work such as residential new construction, additions and accessory structures are made online through Iredell County's Central Permitting Citizen Self-Service portal. The county sends each one to Troutman staff for zoning review, collects the required fees, and then issues the permit. Planning applications, such as rezonings, variances and site plan reviews, go straight to the town's planning staff.

Has Iredell County had strong tornadoes since 2000?

Yes. NOAA's Storm Events Database records three tornadoes rated F2 or EF2 in the county since 2000: near Harmony on July 7, 2005, near Elmwood on May 24, 2017, and in northwest Iredell on May 26, 2022. Each National Weather Service survey describes roof damage: roofs torn off in 2005, a roof removed outright in 2017, and damaged roofs on a mobile home and a barn in 2022.

When did 2-inch hail last fall in Iredell County?

On June 26, 2023, in the Union Grove area near the Wilkes County line. NOAA lists that report at 2.00 inches, and it is the only one that large in the county's record since 2000: each of the other 18 reports of 1.75 inches or more since then measured exactly 1.75.

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