Where to knock in Fort Wayne before you spend anything
Roofbird is a self-serve tool for finding roofing sales leads. You sign up, tell it where you work, and it reads the area you search, whether that is Fort Wayne as a whole, a suburb like New Haven or Huntertown, a single ZIP, or one street. For each block in view it reports the housing era, what share of roofs read as weathered, how many homes are actually there counted from building footprints rather than estimated from land area, whether hail has hit in the last 12 months, and how walkable the block is.
That last point matters more than most lead lists admit. Scattered acreage on long driveways is bad canvassing even under a perfect storm, because a morning is measured in doors per hour. Roofbird calls that out plainly. It only suggests blocks worth the trip, and when nothing in view clears the bar it says so rather than offering three neighbourhoods you should skip. A lead marketplace cannot do this at all. Angi, HomeAdvisor, Thumbtack and the rest do not know your territory. They just sell you whoever filled in a form.
- Search a town, suburb, ZIP or street and get ranked blocks back
- Housing era, share of weathered roofs, real home counts, hail history, walkability
- Click a suggestion and Roofbird draws the scan area, or draw your own polygon
- No sales call, no per-lead fees, leads scored in minutes
How Fort Wayne's storm record shapes the list
Allen County has taken repeated hits. NOAA records show hail of 125 reported in Allen County on 2026-02-19, hail of 100 twice on 2026-04-01, and wind events of 58 to 70 mph across April and June 2026. For a storm-restoration crew, that is a real window: hail of that size can bruise shingles and strip granules without tearing anything off, which is exactly the kind of damage a homeowner will not notice from the ground.
It is also exactly the kind of damage a top-down satellite tile can miss. Roofbird reads the overhead tile and a ground-level Street View of the façade together into one combined assessment. The Street View read catches side-visible wear a top-down tile cannot: granule loss, algae streaking, curling shingles, patched sections, rusted flashing. It also compares the roof against its immediate neighbours from a wider centred view. On a Fort Wayne street where the houses either side have visibly been re-roofed and this one has not, that gets flagged, because it is the strongest social proof in the trade.
- Hail of 125 reported in Allen County on 2026-02-19
- Hail of 100 reported in Allen County on 2026-04-01
- Wind events of 58 to 70 mph across Allen County in April and June 2026
- Neighbourhood hail is shown for the pitch, not used to inflate the ranking
Two scores, because needing a roof and deciding now are different questions
Every Roofbird lead carries two numbers. NEED is how badly the roof needs replacing, based on condition and roof age read off the shingles rather than the building's year built. NOW is whether anything is forcing a decision on this specific house: visible active damage such as a tarp, missing shingles or exposed decking, hail damage on this specific roof, a purchase in the last 18 months, patching already attempted, or neighbours who have re-roofed.
Neighbourhood hail deliberately does not raise the NOW score. Every home in the scan shares it, so it cannot separate one door from the next. That is the opposite of how storm-chasing lists work, and it is why the ranking is trustworthy. Most homes in a settled Fort Wayne neighbourhood honestly have no trigger, and Roofbird says so rather than inventing urgency to look busy. Where a hail event is on record, Roofbird also shows roughly how long the homeowner has left to file an insurance claim, based on the typical notice deadline in Indiana. That figure is an estimate of the state deadline, so verify it with the carrier.
- NEED: condition and roof age only
- NOW: active damage, hail on this roof, recent purchase, prior patching, re-roofed neighbours
- Plain-English verdict in a roofer's words, plus the reasons that raised and lowered the score
- Estimated squares, job-value range and a ready-to-say door pitch on every lead
The homeowner, not just the house
The full property record shows on every lead for free as soon as it is scanned: owner name, whether they live there or it is an absentee or rental owner, estimated market value with a confidence figure, year built, last sale date and price, beds and baths, living square footage, lot size, stories, garage, annual property tax, and mortgage lender. Roofbird also estimates the owner's equity, because equity is what decides whether someone can say yes. When the deed record cannot support an estimate, it says so instead of guessing.
Only the phone and email sit behind a one-click unlock. Every number is DNC-scrubbed and labelled: clear means it was checked against the federal Do Not Call registry and is safe for a manual sales call, DNC means do not call it, and verify means the scrub could not confirm either way, so treat it as unknown. Manual dialling only, no texts and no auto-dialler. A lookup that finds no contact never costs a credit. Roofbird surfaces the homeowner's contact details so you can call or mail owners directly.
- Owner name, occupancy status, AVM value and confidence, year built, last sale
- Beds, baths, square footage, lot size, stories, garage, tax, mortgage lender
- Estimated owner equity, or an honest note when the record will not support one
- DNC-scrubbed, labelled numbers behind a one-click unlock
Work the list like a CRM, not a PDF
Roofbird gives you card view or a side-by-side table with sticky headers, frozen actions, zoomable imagery and inline unlock. You can filter on everything Roofbird knows: owner-occupied versus absentee, has a live trigger, active damage visible, insurance claim window still open, property record present, minimum need score, minimum roof age, minimum owner equity, and contact state including callable, meaning at least one number confirmed off the DNC registry. Add your own tags, export the list, or print door-hanger PDFs for the route.
Two details keep the list honest. Low-quality roofs are dropped before they reach your list and do not count against your monthly quota, so you are charged for leads worth working rather than everything the scan looked at. And a building anyone has already assessed is never re-assessed from scratch, so re-scanning a Fort Wayne neighbourhood surfaces genuinely new homes instead of the same roofs again.
- Filter on need score, roof age, equity, trigger, claim window and callable status
- Export, tag, or print door-hanger PDFs for the route
- Low-quality roofs dropped before they reach your list and do not use quota
- Re-scanning surfaces new homes, not the same roofs
What it costs and what it does not claim
The free trial gives you 25 leads and 10 homeowner-contact unlocks with no credit card. Hunter is $199 per month for 500 leads and 50 unlocks. Hunter Pro is $499 per month for 2,000 leads and 150 unlocks, plus data export. Extra contact unlocks are $1 each, and paid plans include unlimited service areas. It is a flat monthly price, never per lead, which is the structural difference from a shared marketplace selling the same lead to four or more contractors.
Roofbird is not a roof-measurement tool, and it is not a crystal ball. It scores roofs from imagery and public property records. It does not predict who will buy, does not guarantee a claim will be approved, and knows nothing about a homeowner's intent beyond what is reported. Claim-window figures are estimates of the typical Indiana notice deadline and should always be verified with the carrier. What Roofbird does is tell you which Fort Wayne blocks are worth your morning and hand you the homeowner's own contact details, which is more than any shared lead list can honestly offer.
- Free trial: 25 leads and 10 unlocks, no credit card
- Hunter $199/mo: 500 leads and 50 unlocks
- Hunter Pro $499/mo: 2,000 leads and 150 unlocks, plus export
- Extra unlocks $1 each, unlimited service areas on paid plans