Fort Bend County
Roofing in Stafford
A small city whose roofline is as much warehouse and light industrial as it is residential, which makes it two trades inside one boundary.
The housing stock
William Stafford established a plantation here with a cane mill and a horse-powered cotton gin in 1830. Santa Anna's forces stopped there on 15 April 1836 and ordered it burned; Stafford rebuilt and lived there until his death in 1840. The settlement that grew around it, Stafford's Point, became a townsite in August 1853 when the first railroad operating in Texas began stopping there. It incorporated as a city in 1956.
Modest post-war and later residential streets set among a large concentration of commercial, warehouse and light industrial property.
What we look at on a roof in Stafford
- Shingle work and low-slope membrane work within a few hundred feet of each other, and they are genuinely different trades with different failure modes.
- Large, simple commercial roof fields with rooftop equipment, curbs and interior drains, where ponding is the thing to look for and slope is the thing that is missing.
- Modest single-story houses where almost all the risk sits at the edges and the penetrations.
- Mostly Fort Bend, partly Harris, so the permit office depends on the parcel.
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 6 hail events and 7 thunderstorm-wind events. The largest hail on record is 1.5″ on 30 April 2026. The strongest recorded gust is 67 kt (77 mph), on 15 March 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 Stafford 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.
6 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 30 April 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 Stafford, 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.