Just a note, I did a web search for "has my house been hit by a hail storm?" and got plenty of results for places that will tell you. Looking briefly, they either want some sort of money for the result or at least a name and email address.
Like I wrote before, my roofer guy already had the app on his phone and showed me the storm that was within the insurance timeout limit before he even got up there and started chalking the damage. I had three aluminum vent boxes up there (they dont vent roofs that way anymore) that looked like someone had taken a ball peen hammer to them, so it was definitely real.
Nearly the exact thing for me. It's funny because the two contractors of three that didn't even bring up possible hail damage, when I called to talk to them about it (the third contractor was the one who identified it), they kind of scoffed and said State Farm was one of the worst.
All of this and other stuff I've seen makes me definitely not leaving State Farm! I have never had a problem with them in 40 years.
Guess I got lucky. Ours was 30 years old and they covered it in full, aside of deductible, etc. which was $1,800
Ouch! That must be the price to play in Texas and Oklahoma...dang...
The shingles are often guaranteed for 25-30 years but thats not against storm damage like hail and winds above a certain speed. Metal roofing is very expensive. We wanted to go that route but didn't want to afford it once we got an idea of the cost, even after State Farm started cutting checks we were still like "hell no!".