Harris County
Roofing in Spring
A railroad village with a preserved old core sitting inside a very large, mostly post-1970 suburban area that borrowed its name.
The housing stock
William Pierpont placed a trading post on Spring Creek in 1838, and German farming families arrived through the mid-1840s. The International and Great Northern Railroad opened through Spring in 1871, and a roundhouse and switchyard made it a rail town until the roundhouse moved to Houston in 1923 and the population fell away. Houston's suburbs expanded north in the 1970s, and the subdivisions followed. The original town is now Old Town Spring, a small restored district.
Two things at once: a compact core of restored early frame buildings, and a very large surrounding area of 1970s to 2000s subdivision housing, much of it two-story frame on slab under a heavy pine canopy.
What we look at on a roof in Spring
- Two eras on one map — small simple old frame roofs in the old town, large hip-and-valley subdivision roofs everywhere around it.
- 1980s and 1990s roofs now on a second or third covering, where the layer count and the deck condition are the first two questions and neither is answerable from the driveway.
- Pine litter in the older wooded neighborhoods, which packs valleys, beds into the granules and holds moisture against the covering.
- The Harris and Montgomery county line runs through it, so which inspection authority applies depends on the address.
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 3 hail events and 19 thunderstorm-wind events. The largest hail on record is 1.25″ on 18 August 2025. The strongest recorded gust is 84 kt (97 mph), on 21 June 2023.
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 Spring 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.
3 recorded events are 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 27 May 2026, 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 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 Spring, 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.