Galveston County
Roofing in Dickinson
A bayou town where most of the city went under water in 2017, so the roof and the structure under it often have different histories.
The housing stock
The land was part of a tract granted to John Dickinson in 1824 and took his name, with settlement on Dickinson Bayou before 1850. The Dickinson Land and Improvement Association marketed the area to farmers and to Galveston socialites in the 1890s, and by 1911 the Galveston–Houston electric railway had three stops here. An Italian farming community settled from 1905. In August 2017 Hurricane Harvey flooded most of the city.
Older bayou-side housing, post-war subdivisions, and a great deal of post-Harvey repair, rebuilding and elevation work layered on top of both.
Addresses in this part of the coast can fall inside the Texas Department of Insurance designated catastrophe area, where a standard homeowners policy often excludes wind and hail and the cover comes from a separate windstorm policy instead. Where that applies, the work has to be inspected and certified — the WPI-8 certificate of compliance — for the cover to attach to the new roof. That is arranged around the job, not remembered after it, and it is worth settling with the insurer before a tear-off starts. How a roof claim works.
What we look at on a roof in Dickinson
- Elevated and rebuilt houses, where new framing meets old and the covering may be newer or older than the structure carrying it.
- Repair work done at speed in the months after a flood, which is worth inspecting rather than assuming.
- Heavy bayou tree cover over the older streets.
- A Galveston County address, with the windstorm certification that goes with it.
What the storm record actually shows
These counts come from the NOAA Storm Events record for hail and thunderstorm wind, from 2021 to 2 June 2026. Tropical systems are logged under different event types and are not in these numbers at all, so Hurricane Beryl in July 2024 does not appear below, and Harvey in August 2017 and Ike in September 2008 are both before the window opens. Read the figures as a floor rather than a ceiling.
Within five miles of the center of its ZIP codes, NOAA recorded 7 hail events and 8 thunderstorm-wind events. The largest hail on record is 2.75″ on 31 May 2024. The strongest recorded gust is 72 kt (83 mph), on 10 April 2024.
Wind outnumbers hail in this record, which is why the starter course, the drip edge and the nailing pattern do more for a roof in Dickinson than the impact rating printed on the shingle wrapper. Wind damage also does not announce itself from the ground: a creased or unsealed shingle lies flat and looks perfectly normal until the next storm lifts it off.
Neither number describes the thing that ages a roof here fastest, which is simply the climate. Ultraviolet load, daily thermal cycling and humid air moving through the attic will take an asphalt roof to the end of its service life without a single recorded storm passing over it, and the south and west slopes get there first.
Storm Check lists every one of these events with dates, sizes and distances for each of these ZIP codes.
What we do here
- 01Roof inspectionPhotographs slope by slope and a written condition report you keep.
- 02Roof replacementTear-off to the deck, and the layers underneath specified in writing.
- 03Roof repairTracing the leak to the defect rather than sealing the stain.
- 04Storm damageWind and hail assessment documented against the dates NOAA recorded.
Free inspection anywhere in Dickinson, with photographs and a written condition report you keep.
Request a free inspectionAll work is performed by insured local roofing professionals. Texas does not license roofing contractors at state level, so insurance, references and a written scope are what there is to check.