Ellicott's Trusted Hail & Storm Damage Roofers

Ellicott is a rural unincorporated El Paso County community on the plains east of Colorado Springs — 100% rural per Census classification, with no urban share at all. The population is 1,248, entirely within the 80808 ZIP code, at a moderate elevation of roughly 6,021 feet. The community is served by its own small K-12 district, Ellicott School District 22, rather than one of the larger regional districts. Larger acreage parcels typical of rural ranch and agricultural land use are the norm here; no named subdivisions or HOA presence were found in sources checked, consistent with the area's low-density character.

Being plains and grassland rather than forested, Ellicott's dominant fire-adjacent risk is grass fire, not the timber-fire interface seen in the Ute Pass mountain communities elsewhere in the Pikes Peak region. Snow load follows standard Front Range design values at this elevation.

Ellicott's hail record is the most notable in this group of nine cities. NWS storm-spotter reports confirm 5 documented hail days within 10 miles of city center between 2021 and 2026, all measured on the ground. The largest was 3.0-inch hail measured July 8, 2023 (3 reports) — the largest ground-measured stone recorded for any city in this batch, and a rare case where NOAA radar's independent estimate that day, 2.75 inches, actually ran below rather than above the measured size. Ground crews also confirmed hail from 2.0 to 2.5 inches on three additional dates between 2022 and 2023, with radar running as much as 1.5 inches high on some of those days.

Because Ellicott is unincorporated, residential re-roof permits are issued by the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department (PPRBD), the joint city/county authority covering all of El Paso County. Red Hawk pulls the permit and handles the final inspection.