The March Ice Storm That Became Ontario’s Sixth-Costliest Weather Event Tested Toronto Roofs
Ice is the quiet villain of a Toronto winter. It does not arrive with the drama of a windstorm, but it loads roofs, jams gutters, and works its way under shingles in ways that show up months later as a leak nobody can explain. The late-March 2025 ice storm was a textbook example. When the final accounting came in a year later, it put hard numbers behind what roofers already knew from the call volume: ice does an enormous amount of damage to the part of the house people pay the least attention to. The cost, finalized a year later Catastrophe modellers settled the insured loss from that storm at $466 million, ranking it the sixth-costliest weather event in Ontario's history and the most expensive anywhere in Canada that year.…