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How many structures does a roof measurement report cover?

One address, one report, every building on the property. How scope works, how a house, a detached garage and outbuildings come back as separate structures, and why the price does not change with the count.

Updated September 10, 2026

How it worksMeasured reports

How a roof measurement report is made

What happens between sending an address and receiving a measured roof. Aerial imagery, a trained technician, a normalized geometry document, and the files rendered from it.

Updated September 9, 2026

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Roof measurement glossary: facets, pitch, eaves, hips, valleys and more

Every term a roof measurement report uses, defined the way RoofQuery measures it. Areas, pitch, the ten edge types, derived values and file formats, with the matching API field for each.

Updated September 9, 2026

How it worksMeasured reports

What is an Xactimate ESX file, and what RoofQuery puts in one

The .esx format, why insurance and restoration work runs on it, and how a RoofQuery report becomes an ESX that opens in Xactimate under the claim number.

Updated September 9, 2026

How it worksMeasured reports

What's in a roof measurement report

Page by page and field by field, what a RoofQuery report contains, how the PDF and the API data line up, and which numbers a contractor, adjuster or solar designer actually uses.

Updated September 9, 2026

Looking for the API reference?

Endpoints, webhooks, statuses and file formats live in the docs.