In Lincolnville, the median home was built in 1987. We replace and repair roofs here and inspect after hail, starting with a free, photographed inspection.
Lincolnville runs to about 1.2 square miles and roughly 1,064 people. It sits about 21 miles northwest of downtown Charleston. The community dates back to 1889. We cover ZIP code 29485.
No completed roof in Lincolnville is logged in our job records yet.
Lincolnville was settled in 1867 by seven African American men led by Rev. Richard Harvey Cain, who bought 620 acres from the South Carolina Railroad, and it was incorporated in 1889 and named for Abraham Lincoln. The small town is bordered by Summerville on the north, west and south, with a sliver reaching into Dorchester County.
From this stretch of building, houses in Lincolnville sit on plywood or OSB, were first roofed in three-tab shingles, and are mostly on their second roof now. Trouble tends to be at the penetrations rather than across the field: the rubber collar on a pipe boot splits years before the shingles give out, and it is the leak we trace most often. Ridge vents were hit and miss in these decades, and OSB that stays damp for a season softens in a way plywood does not, something you feel underfoot rather than see from the yard.
The Census Bureau counts 577 homes in Lincolnville, with a median year built of 1987. 14 of them (2%) went up before 1940 — 16th of 28 places on this site for pre-1940 share — and 118 (20%) in 2000 or later. The 1970s were the busiest decade, adding 159 of today's homes (28%). That is below Charleston County's 5%.
About 20 years is the usual service life of an asphalt shingle roof, by the figure in HUD's Residential Rehabilitation Inspection Guide. By that measure, 80% of Lincolnville's homes — the 459 built before 2000 — are past their first roof, and 11% (62 homes) go back before 1970, two roof lives and more. The 43 homes from the 2000s are where first replacements come up now, while the 75 built since 2010 are mostly still on the roof they were built with.
Detached single-family houses make up 49% (280); attached houses and townhouses 5% (31). 76 homes (13%) sit in two- to nine-unit buildings and 9 (2%) in buildings of ten units or more, whose roofs are normally an owner's or a board's call rather than a resident's. The count also takes in 175 mobile homes, which are a different kind of roof job. 60% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, 40% rented. Read together, those figures point toward flat and low-slope sections, which turn up more on attached and multi-unit buildings.
| Built | Homes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before 1940 | 14 | 2% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 30 | 5% | |
| 1960s | 18 | 3% | |
| 1970s | 159 | 28% | |
| 1980s | 94 | 16% | |
| 1990s | 144 | 25% | |
| 2000s | 43 | 7% | |
| 2010s | 52 | 9% | |
| 2020 or later | 23 | 4% |
Census ACS 2020–2024, tables B25034, B25035, B25024 and B25003: 577 homes, 491 occupied. Survey estimates.
Between 2016 and 2025 there were 16 reports of 1-inch-plus hail within 5 miles of Lincolnville’s center in the records of NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center, on 9 separate days. 6 of them were 1.75 inches or larger. The largest, 2 inches, came on June 10, 2024, about 3.2 miles east of the center. Counts follow people as much as storms, since every report is a spotter’s or a resident’s.
| Latest reports | Size | From center |
|---|---|---|
| June 10, 2024 | 2 inches | 3.2 mi E |
| June 10, 2024 | 1 inch | 2.6 mi S |
| June 10, 2024 | 1.75 inches | 2.8 mi S |
| June 10, 2024 | 1.75 inches | 4.5 mi W |
| April 6, 2022 | 1 inch | 4 mi S |
Hail damage rarely shows from the ground; a storm inspection photographs each slope so you know either way.
Lincolnville publishes no rule either way on a like-for-like re-roof, so we ask the building department (843-873-3261 ext. 3) before we start and pull whatever it wants.
Lincolnville does not publish the code edition it currently enforces, so this page does not name one. Worth asking any contractor which edition they are building to.
The published number is 843-873-3261 ext. 3. The town code gives building code enforcement to a building inspector designated by the town; the zoning office lists a Code Officer as its contact. The department page is here.
The design wind speed a roof in Lincolnville is built to depends on where the house stands: across greater Charleston the published ultimate design wind speeds run 133–150 mph. The building department can confirm the figure, and the code guide explains what it governs.
Lincolnville borders Summerville. Our pages for them:
Also in Charleston County:
| City | Re-roof permit | Code | Median built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincolnville | Not published | Not published | 1987 |
| Summerville | Yes | 2021 IRC | 2001 |
| Adams Run | Yes | 2021 IRC | 1984 |
| Awendaw | Yes | 2021 IRC | 2001 |
| Charleston | Yes | 2021 IRC | 1995 |
| Unincorporated Charleston County | Yes | 2021 IRC | — |
| Edisto Island | Yes | 2021 IRC | — |
All 22 Charleston County cities side by side →
Lincolnville publishes no rule on it. We ask the building department first and pull whatever it requires.
Median year built 1987, by the Census Bureau's 2020–2024 estimates. Of 577 homes, 459 were built before 2000 and 14 before 1940, so most roofs in Lincolnville are not the first one the house has had.
The last report near Lincolnville of hail 1 inch or bigger came on June 10, 2024; NOAA's records hold 16 of them within 5 miles since 2016.
Not yet: no completed roof in Lincolnville is in our job records, so this page shows no job count.
Researched 2026-10-24; housing, Census ACS 2020–2024; hail, NOAA SPC. Sources: www.lincolnvillesc.gov · www.lincolnvillesc.gov · www.lincolnvillesc.gov · www.charlestoncounty.gov · www2.census.gov · tigerweb.geo.census.gov · llr.sc.gov · en.wikipedia.org · www.lincolnvillesc.org · www.nps.gov · en.wikipedia.org · www.scstatehouse.gov · www2.census.gov · data.census.gov · www.spc.noaa.gov. Rules and staff change; check with the jurisdiction.
