About

What this site is, and what it is not

Most roofing websites are a photograph of a house against a blue sky and a list of adjectives. This one is built the other way round: explain how the assembly actually works, show what the public record actually says about storms here, and let that do the selling.

Who does the work

All work is performed by insured local roofing professionals working in this market. Texas does not license roofing contractors at state level, so that sentence says what it can honestly say and the choosing a roofer checklist sets out what there is to verify instead. When you send an enquiry, someone gets back to you to arrange a time, and the inspection costs nothing whether or not any work follows.

Where the numbers come from

Every storm figure on this site traces to the NOAA Storm Events Database, a public-domain record maintained by the National Centers for Environmental Information. Storm Check reads a pre-processed extract for the 8 counties covered here. It reports what was recorded near a ZIP code. It does not estimate, model or predict.

Across that window NOAA logged 256 damaging-wind reports and 148 hail reports in this area. Wind leads, and hail is not a footnote — which is why this site keeps returning to edge detailing, starter course, drip edge and fastener pull-through, and to what hail actually looks like on a mat.

One limitation is stated everywhere it matters rather than buried here: the extract carries the Hail and Thunderstorm Wind event types only. NOAA files hurricane and tropical-storm wind under other categories, so the worst roofing events this coast gets are close to absent from these totals. A tool that quietly showed a quiet July for July 2024 without saying why would be worse than no tool.

What you will not find here

• No claimed history. No founding year, no count of roofs installed, no claim about how long anyone has been doing this. Those are easy to write and impossible for you to check.
• No reviews, star ratings or award badges. If they were here you would have no way of knowing whether they were real.
• No manufacturer certification badges. Those belong to a specific contractor who earned them, not to a website.
• No prices. What drives roof cost explains the factors that move a number, and deliberately stops short of quoting one. A range guessed from a web form is worth nothing and anchors you to the wrong figure.
• No claimed license. Texas does not license roofing contractors at state level, so anybody implying a state roofing license is describing something that does not exist.
• No prediction about your insurance claim. Nobody outside your carrier can tell you how it will be decided. The insurance section explains the process and the vocabulary so you can hold your own in the conversation.

The educational content

The Learn and Insurance sections exist because a homeowner typically spends weeks deciding before calling anyone, and almost nothing written for that stage is written honestly. Those pages are general information, not legal or insurance advice, and each one carries the date it was last reviewed.