The importance or lack of importance for roof age. Now, it's often common for people to, assume that the roof is in good condition because they received, word that their roof had a certain life span. However, that's not always going to be the case, especially depending on your environment, depending on whether heat, storms and other factors from the environment that can drastically impact the life span of your roof. On top of that, depending on the age of your roof, that may impact your availability for coverage under an insurance claim.