In Yorba Linda, the 2008 fire left rebuilt roofs next to older ones.
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If the roof still has good years left, the report tells you.
Roof replacement and free written roof inspections across Yorba Linda. In November 2008 the Freeway Complex Fire came out of the Chino Hills on Santa Ana winds and destroyed 314 homes here and in Anaheim Hills. Rebuilt streets have roofs from about 2010, and spared streets still have roofs from the 1970s and 80s, sometimes on the same block.
Deck, underlayment, then shingles or tile. The underlayment keeps the water out, and you can only check it from up on the roof.
Two ages of roof on one street
The spared houses are the old ones
Nearly half of Yorba Linda was built before 1979 and three quarters before 1989. Original tile underlayment from those years is past its working life.
Rebuilt houses have their own clock
Post-fire rebuilds went in with Class A assemblies, so they pass the fire question. A carrier scoring the whole street by age still wants the paperwork.
Canyon wind works the ridges loose
The same Santa Ana corridor that drove the fire lifts ridge and hip tiles years before the field of the roof shows wear.
Before the rain in Yorba Linda
Tile roofs on hillside tracts, and Santa Ana winds that come straight down the canyon.
Santa Ana Canyon wind
Some of the strongest Santa Ana winds in the region come through here. Wind-lifted tile in the fall is the most common way a winter leak starts.
Underlayment on 1980s and 90s tracts
Tile on many tracts here is fine; the underlayment beneath it is often near the end. A long storm is when that matters.
Hillside drainage
On sloped lots, check that roof water goes into gutters and away from the house and the slope.
Before the first big storm: book the free roof check, or read our winter storm roof guide.
From our roofs
Recent MAMOS roofing work: shingle re-roofs, flat ADU roofs and tile.
We get on the roof, photograph what we find and write it up.
Get my free reportIn the canyons the fire zone is read before the roof.
Carriers here look at the hazard designation first and the roof age second, both from aerial imagery. A Class A assembly with a closed permit puts both on paper: the fire rating and the roof’s date.
homes destroyed in Yorba Linda and Anaheim Hills by the Freeway Complex Fire, November 2008.
Roof questions in Yorba Linda
Repair or replace?
Usually the underlayment decides it, and you have to get on the roof to check that. The report gives you the answer, with photos.
What does a new roof change for my insurer?
Most letters name roof age. The permit and completion papers show the new roof’s date; what the carrier does with them is its decision.
My neighborhood has an HOA. Does that change the roof?
It changes the order. The architectural committee rules on color and profile and can take weeks, so that packet goes in before the permit. California law stops a board from prohibiting Class A products.
Your street has two roof ages. Find out which one you own.
The report establishes your roof’s real age with permit evidence, not with the satellite estimate your carrier is working from. On these streets those two numbers often disagree.
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