Waller County
Roofing in Hempstead
The Waller county seat on the old Houston and Texas Central line, at the inland edge of the service area, where the conditions are prairie rather than coastal.
The housing stock
Richard Rodgers Peebles and James W. McDade organized the Hempstead Town Company on 29 December 1856 to sell lots in a community at the projected terminus of the Houston and Texas Central Railway, and Peebles named it for his brother-in-law, Dr. G. S. B. Hempstead. The railway reached the town on 29 June 1858, and it incorporated that November, becoming a distribution point between the Gulf Coast and the interior of Texas. A Confederate military post and its camps of instruction were established nearby in 1861 and 1862.
A small county-seat town with nineteenth and early-twentieth-century building around the square, mid-century housing behind it, and rural acreage beyond.
What we look at on a roof in Hempstead
- Far enough inland that salt is not the issue, so the wear pattern here is ultraviolet, heat and thermal cycling rather than corrosion.
- Open prairie wind with no tree line and no neighboring rooftops to slow it down.
- Nineteenth and early-twentieth-century commercial buildings with parapets and low-slope roofs behind them.
- Metal roofing common on rural buildings and outbuildings, which is a different specification from a suburban re-roof.
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 ZIP 77445, NOAA recorded 0 hail events and 3 thunderstorm-wind events. The strongest recorded gust is 70 kt (81 mph), on 16 May 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 Hempstead 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.
One recorded event is inside the last twelve months. On the coast, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association gives a policyholder one year from the date of the storm to file a claim, and a standard homeowners policy sets its own notice requirement — your policy wording is what controls. If the roof has not been looked at since 25 October 2025, that is the reason to do it now rather than next year.
Storm Check lists every one of these events with dates, sizes and distances for ZIP 77445.
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 Hempstead, 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.