Solar in Wyoming is a conversation about sun, wind, and a roof the sun may already have cooked. Basins have light and almost no shade, which is also an uplift problem on the rails. Mountain towns have snow and trees. Hail is a plains risk, not a statewide promise of damage or of clear skies. None of this is a forecast of what the equipment will do, and an array is not a plan to carry the heat. The visit is the covering, the mounts, and the electrical service.
Do not attach to brittle, curled, or lifted shingles. Sun-baked asphalt will not get kinder under a rail. Fix the roof first or the next wind week becomes a tear-off around the feet. Ask how the mounts are flashed and how they are meant to live in a gust that does not stop at Rawlins, Medicine Bow, or an open lot outside Casper. A photo from the air has not seen a cracked boot or a small panel. Someone has to stand on the roof and open the electrical equipment.
Name the modules and the inverter. Ask who owns the equipment and who you call when the inverter is quiet. Older services in town houses and ranch houses may be modest. Ask what is there now. Shade is low in the basins and high in the conifers of the northwest. Say which site you have so a bare-lot layout is not pasted onto a cabin. Put the equipment where it can be reached in winter, not in a drift on the windward wall.
Wind and hail are hardware questions about mounts and glass. They are not a script for bright afternoons. If a roof claim is open, finish the covering before any foot goes down. Attachments that pin a failing edge will be in the way when the wind finally takes that edge. You want a sound roof, flashed feet, and a service that can take the work.
Say the town, the age of the roof, and whether the sun and the wind have already curled the tabs. Mention shade if trees exist, and mention the panel. If the covering is tired, that is the first call. Call the number on this page.