Founder, Hailscore LLC
Alex Chicilo
Colorado roofing professional, weather data analyst, and the person behind HailScore. Based in Denver.
Alex Chicilo is the founder of Hailscore LLC and the creator of HailScore, a free hail risk assessment tool that analyzes over 4.5 million NOAA NEXRAD radar records to score hail exposure for any property address in the United States.
Alex has spent years in the roofing industry, running operations at a major Front Range roofing company that holds four of the highest manufacturer certifications in the business. That hands-on experience — inspecting thousands of hail-damaged roofs across Colorado — is what led him to build HailScore.
Working directly with homeowners after major hail events, Alex saw the same problem repeatedly: people had no idea what storms had hit their property. Insurance companies had the data. Roofing contractors had the data. But homeowners were left guessing. That information gap meant some missed valid claims while others fell for aggressive sales tactics from storm chasers.
HailScore was born from that frustration. Alex combined his firsthand roofing knowledge with government radar data from NOAA to build a tool that puts real storm history directly in homeowners' hands. No sales pitch, no signup required, no cost.
Roofing Credentials
Alex holds four of the highest manufacturer certifications available to roofing contractors:
GAF
Master Elite Contractor
Top 2% of roofers nationwide
Owens Corning
Preferred Contractor
Highest tier of Owens Corning network
Malarkey
Emerald Pro Contractor
Premium installer certification
CertainTeed
Shingle Master
Advanced roofing credential
Why I Built HailScore
After years of inspecting roofs following hailstorms, I noticed a pattern. Homeowners would ask, “Was there even a storm here?” They heard it on the roof, but had no way to verify the size, frequency, or proximity of the hail that hit their neighborhood.
Meanwhile, insurance adjusters showed up with detailed weather reports. Roofing companies used paid hail maps to target neighborhoods. The data existed — it was just locked behind paywalls or buried in government databases that no regular person would ever dig through.
I spent months learning how NOAA's NEXRAD radar network detects hail, how the Severe Weather Data Inventory catalogs storm events, and how to turn millions of raw data points into something a homeowner could actually use. The result is HailScore's scoring system: enter any address, get a score from 0 to 100, and see every recorded hail event near your property on an interactive map.
See what Alex built
Check your property's hail history with a free HailScore report. No signup required.