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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.
How it worksMeasured reports
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.
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.
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.
How it worksStorm reports
What's in a storm report
What a RoofQuery storm report contains: hail and wind by distance, date of loss, damage chance, confidence, the parcel and owner, and the five PDFs.
How it worksStorm reports
Which storm report PDF to send
The five PDFs that come with every RoofQuery storm report, who each is for, how long it is, and which one to send to an adjuster, a homeowner or a sales lead.
How it worksStorm reports
Hail size chart: which hail sizes damage a roof
Hail sizes from pea to softball in inches, what the National Weather Service calls severe, and the sizes at which common roofing materials start to be damaged.
How it worksStorm reports
How radar hail estimates work, and how far to trust them
How NOAA radar estimates hail size, why it differs from hail on the ground, and how storm reports turn radar, reports and warnings into a confidence rating.
How it works
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.
How it worksStorm reports
Wind speed and roof damage: what 58, 75 and 110 mph mean
What wind speeds mean for a roof, from the 58 mph severe threshold to the Enhanced Fujita scale, and how storm reports measure wind near a property.
Looking for the API reference?
Endpoints, webhooks, statuses and file formats live in the docs.