Minnesota · Forensic Roofing Sciences, our assessment firm
Most roofing assessments start with a bid. Ours start with a record.
We document the condition of roofs and building envelopes, track the storm events that put those assets at risk, and produce a record that holds up when someone asks how you know. We do not guess at causation. If the evidence supports a storm-damage finding, the report says so and shows why. If it does not, the report says that too.
The inspection costs you nothing. The record is yours whether or not you hire us.
See the full exposure history — exact count, dates and a year-by-year view, on screen and emailed to you as “Your Storm Exposure Summary”. The calls-and-texts box is optional.
We've also emailed this to you as “Your Storm Exposure Summary”.
Get it documented while the evidence is fresh.
The record that matters is the one we make on your roof.
Request an inspectionWarnings are issued by the National Weather Service. A warning is a reason to look at a roof, not a finding of damage.
Storm Check tells you how often warnings covered an address. Hail size is what usually decides whether a roof was hurt. Slide to see common sizes at roughly actual scale.
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Typical effects only. Actual damage depends on wind, roof age, material and installation, and only an inspection can document it.
Assessment, intelligence and response — each one built around the same record.
An independent, on-site assessment of a roof or building envelope. We document the condition of the roof and envelope, and any damage, on site. The result is a record you can hand to an owner, a lender, a carrier or a contractor without rewriting it for each one.
We track hail and wind events against your buildings' coordinates using public radar and ground reports. When a storm crosses one of your properties, you know which building, which day and roughly how severe — and you know where to look first, before a small problem becomes an interior one.
When something happens, someone answers. We respond within 24 hours with a defined escalation path: who comes out, what gets secured and documented first, and when you get the written record. Call 952.220.9026.
Anyone who needs to know the condition of a building — and be able to show how they know.
Every assessment covers the same ground, so records from different buildings and different years can be compared.
Each layer of a roof tells part of the story. Pick one to see what we document there.
From deck to ridge: deck, ice and water shield, underlayment, shingles, flashing, gutters, soft metals and vents.
Your report is delivered after an on-roof inspection. It covers:
Our methodology and data are proprietary. What you get from us is the record, not the recipe.
Request a report We'll inspect and send you a written condition report.
Storm intelligence for owners who cannot be on every roof after every storm.
We register the coordinates of each building you want watched. When hail or damaging wind crosses one of them — based on public radar estimates and ground reports — you hear about it with the building, the date and an indication of severity. Instead of wondering after every storm, you know where to look first.
Over time you build a documented exposure history for every asset: which storms crossed it, when, and what a follow-up assessment found. That history is useful at renewal, at sale, and whenever someone asks when the damage happened.
For owners with several buildings. Access means a walk of your buildings.
AD CULMEN report dossier — available to portfolio members. Request the dossier and we'll walk your buildings and build your portfolio record.
Request accessAbout · Forensic Roofing Sciences LLC
Forensic Roofing Sciences is an independent roof and building envelope assessment firm based in Saint Paul. It documents the condition of roofs and envelopes, tracks the storms that put them at risk, and produces a record that holds up when someone asks how you know.
Evidence first. Always.
A storm comes through. A contractor climbs the roof, takes a dozen photos that support a bid, and leaves. A few weeks later a carrier representative climbs the same roof, takes a dozen photos that support a decision, and leaves. Neither set of photos is wrong, exactly. But both are incomplete, both were taken to answer someone else’s question, and the owner is left in the middle trying to decide which story to believe, usually without anyone having measured, located or dated the evidence in a way that holds up.
It starts with the record. The whole building is documented, and the owner receives a report that answers one question honestly: what is the condition of this building, and what does the evidence show happened to it? Whatever comes next — a repair, a claim, a sale, or nothing at all — starts from the same set of facts.
Aaron Forsman founded Forensic Roofing Sciences after seeing the same gap on roofs across Minnesota and Wisconsin. Before roofing, he spent more than 15 years in financial services and insurance with Aflac, Allstate and State Farm, three Fortune 500 companies, and one of the largest IMOs in the country. At Allstate in 2019 and 2020 he finished #1 in the Midwest and #3 in the country for life, financial planning and business sales. Those years were in sales, and they showed him what carriers need to see in a file, and how rarely they get it.
Since 2024 he has led more than 70 roof replacements, more than 30 of them in Minnesota and Wisconsin, through the sister company Forsman Roofing Solutions. From 2011 to 2013 he served on the Lexington-Hamline Community Council board in Saint Paul.
Why Forensic Roofing Sciences and Forsman Roofing Solutions are separate.
An assessment produced by the company that wants the repair contract is worth less. Everyone reading it knows who benefits from the conclusion. That is why the assessment work lives in its own firm, Forensic Roofing Sciences, and the construction work lives in our roofing company, Forsman Roofing Solutions. They are sister firms with separate jobs.
Take our assessment to any contractor you like. Nothing in the report depends on who builds the repair, and you are never asked to hire Forsman Roofing Solutions to get it. We document damage and work with your adjuster at your request.
We are not public adjusters. We do not interpret insurance policies, advise on coverage, or adjust or negotiate claims. When a repair is built by Forsman Roofing Solutions, no part of a deductible is paid, absorbed, rebated or waived; Minnesota law prohibits it (Minn. Stat. § 325E.66).
Storm damage, an active leak, or a building that needs to be documented before anything changes? Call. We respond within 24 hours with a defined escalation path.
952.220.9026Or email [email protected].
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Portfolio and storm-response work nationwide. Headquartered in Saint Paul.
Name, phone, address and a time window. The inspection costs you nothing. The record is yours whether or not you hire us. Want the written report or the portfolio dossier? Use the links below — each one starts with a visit to your roof.
Request a report — we'll inspect and send you a written condition report.
Request the dossier — we'll walk your buildings and build your portfolio record.
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