Roofing Contractor in Applewood, CO

Applewood is a flat, fully suburban unincorporated Jefferson County census-designated place between Golden and Wheat Ridge, roughly ten miles west of downtown Denver, at 5,804 feet elevation. The 2020 census recorded 7,833 residents. Applewood is bordered by Fairmount to the north, Wheat Ridge to the northeast, Lakewood to the southeast, and West Pleasant View to the southwest — the CDP was reduced in size when West Pleasant View split off as its own census-designated place in the 2000 census. Applewood was built out mainly in the mid-20th century. Children attend Jefferson County School District R-1 (Jeffco Public Schools); elementary options include Maple Grove, Stober, and Welchester, feeding into Everitt or Bell middle schools and Golden or Wheat Ridge high schools depending on the exact address. Worth noting for anyone researching the area: the well-known "Applewood Knolls" neighborhood brand sits mostly within the city of Lakewood (with an 11th filing inside Wheat Ridge), not this unincorporated Applewood CDP, despite the shared name — so it is not listed as a verified neighborhood here.

Hail is a documented, real risk in Applewood. NWS storm spotters confirmed hail on the ground within 10 miles of the community on 5 separate days between 2021 and 2026, the largest a 2.5-inch measurement on June 22, 2023, backed by 13 separate ground reports — NOAA radar that same day indicated a close 2.75-inch signature, only a 0.25-inch variance, one of the tighter measured-versus-radar matches in this batch. A June 21, 2023 event told a different story: ground spotters measured 2.0-inch hail while radar indicated 3.75 inches that day, a 1.75-inch gap, underscoring why radar estimates (NOAA's SWDI MEHS product, calibrated to the 75th percentile of a storm cell largely aloft) should never be treated as ground truth on their own. Any Applewood roof more than 8 to 10 years old should be inspected for hail bruising and granule loss after any of these documented dates.

Applewood is flat, fully urban suburban infill with no elevation, snow-load, or wildfire-interface premium to factor into a roofing job. Because Applewood is unincorporated, residential re-roof permits are issued by the Jefferson County Building Safety Division at 100 Jefferson County Parkway, Suite 3540, in Golden (303-271-8260). The published fee schedule was not available in the sources reviewed. Red Hawk pulls the permit and manages the final inspection on every Applewood job.