Phoenix roofs take a beating no other market's do — 110° summers, monsoon microbursts, and blowing dust, year after year. We put an FAA-certified drone over your roof and give you a documented condition report without a single person setting foot on the membrane or the tile — safer for the roof, safer for the crew, and far more thorough than a ladder-and-clipboard walk.
FAA Part 107 Certified · Fully Insured · LAANC Authorized · 5.0★ from 271 Google reviews
Desert Drones is an FAA Part 107–certified drone services company providing aerial roof inspections across metro Phoenix and Arizona — flat and commercial membrane surveys, tile and shingle condition documentation, storm and hail damage reports, thermal moisture scans, and multifamily/HOA roof audits. We deliver high-resolution imagery, thermal moisture maps, and an annotated report, typically within 48 hours, with nobody walking your roof.
A drone documents an entire roof — ridges, valleys, penetrations, flashing, and membrane seams — at a resolution and completeness a ground inspection can't match, and does it in a fraction of the time.
A report you can hand to an owner, an adjuster, or a roofing contractor and everyone works from the same evidence.
From commercial plants to HOA communities to custom homes, here's the range of Valley roof work we actually fly — not stock photography.
On a west Phoenix bottling plant we flew a post-sunset thermal survey of the flat commercial roof, delivered as a thermal orthomosaic — trapped-moisture anomalies numbered and one buckled-membrane area flagged for a cut-test.
THERMAL ORTHO · COMMERCIAL
For a north Phoenix townhome community we documented all 21 buildings — hundreds of nadir tile-roof frames — to one consistent standard, giving the HOA a complete, building-by-building condition record in a single mobilization.
MULTIFAMILY · 21 BUILDINGS
On Valley custom homes — like this north Scottsdale standing-seam metal roof — we document the full roof surface and flashing details so owners and contractors can assess condition without anyone climbing up.
RESIDENTIAL · HIGH-RESWe also fly rooftop mechanical inspections at Valley manufacturing plants and forensic roof documentation for engineering firms in the SE Valley. Whatever the roof, the deliverable is the same: complete coverage, real measurements, and a report someone can act on.
Most roofs are a single flight and a next-day report — here's the path.
Address, roof type, and why you're looking — a sale, a claim, a leak, or a scheduled HOA audit. We quote it and set a date.
Full nadir coverage plus obliques, LAANC pulled ahead of time, and an optional post-sunset thermal pass — with nobody on the roof.
We stitch the imagery, run the thermal map, and flag every anomaly the day of the flight.
You get the located, numbered condition report within 48 hours, ready for an estimate or a claim.
Flying roofs in the Valley isn't the same as anywhere else. Here's what we plan around.
A microburst or hailstorm can total a roof in twenty minutes. Dated, geolocated aerial documentation gives you the evidence an adjuster needs — and a pre-storm baseline is worth even more.
Concrete and clay tile dominate Valley roofs, and slipped or cracked tiles are easy to miss from the ground. Nadir drone imagery catches them across an entire roof at once.
Our desert heat is an advantage for moisture detection — a roof radiating stored heat after dark reveals exactly where water is trapped under the membrane.
Most Valley roofs sit under Sky Harbor, Deer Valley, or Gateway airspace. We pull the LAANC authorization before every flight.
On a Valley job, the difference between a licensed pro and a hobbyist is legal, insurable, and visible in the deliverables.
Roof clients often bundle these — same Part 107 team, same mobilization when it makes sense.
No — that's the point. The drone captures the entire roof at high resolution without anyone stepping on tile or membrane, which is safer for the roof and the crew and catches things a ground walk misses.
Yes. We deliver dated, geolocated high-resolution imagery — and a thermal pass when moisture is involved — formatted to support an insurance or warranty claim.
Yes. Flat and commercial membrane roofs are a core specialty, including post-sunset thermal orthomosaics that map trapped moisture across the whole surface.
Yes — we document every building to one consistent standard in a single mobilization, so the board gets a complete, comparable record.
FAA Part 107 certified and fully insured, with a certificate of insurance available on request and LAANC authorization for controlled airspace.
Most roof inspections are delivered within 48 hours as an annotated report with located findings and close-up imagery.
Rated 5.0★ from 271 verified Google reviews across our locations.
John and team are the consummate professionals! Very reliable, quick, and high quality deliverables!
Professional, efficient, and easy to work with. The team delivered clean, high-quality aerials and communicated clearly throughout the project.
Needed work done quickly for drone photography. They responded quickly, knew exactly what was required, and explained it well — great customer service.
John was a professional and very knowledgeable. He made the process of getting drone footage seamless and did an exceptional job.
Absolutely amazing experience with Desert Drones. They did a shoot for my business and made my product really speak for itself!
John is a true professional. Every time we need drone photography or videography done, he is excited to take on the project.
Tell us the address and roof type — we'll get you a quote and a flight date, and nobody has to climb up.
