Brazoria County
Freeport, Texas Roofing & Property Protection
Know your roof before you sign anything. The Roof Shepherd brings documentation-first inspection, storm damage documentation, and property guidance to Freeport homeowners.
Updated October 23, 2026
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The short version
- Freeport, in Brazoria County, is about 216 miles and 4 hours 5 minutes by road from our Round Rock base.
- Hail 1.75 inches or larger was reported once near Freeport from 2000 to 2026, 205th of the 207 cities on this site.
- 2015 was the worst season here from 2006 to 2025: 2 reports of hail one inch or larger, the largest 1.5 inches on April 17.
- The median home in Freeport was built in 1973, and 76 percent of homes here were built before 1990.
- Two of its three nearest neighbors had more large hail.
Call or text 512-575-5052 or use Get Help to start with a documented inspection in Freeport, Brazoria County.
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Freeport At A Glance
What homeowners in Freeport should know
How Freeport ranks for large hail and home age, and who sets permit rules here.
Freeport, in Brazoria County, is about 216 miles and 4 hours 5 minutes by road from our Round Rock base. Roofing permit rules are set locally, and Texas has no statewide roofing license, so we confirm the rules for your address before work starts.
Wind & Hurricane Country
Freeport’s roofing risk is wind, hurricane, and derecho more than hail. A written record after any major wind event protects your position before any repair decision. Freeport is a Brazoria County city in the Houston & Gulf Coast region, where Gulf hurricanes, tropical flooding and wind shape roof exposure.
Wind & Storm Exposure
The strongest thunderstorm wind gust reported within ten miles from 2000 to 2026 was 65 mph, on December 30, 2002. NOAA logged 17 thunderstorm wind reports within ten miles of Freeport from 2000 to 2026.
The Homes Here
The median home in Freeport was built in 1973, and 76 percent of homes here were built before 1990. Of the other cities on this site, 94 percent have newer homes than Freeport.
Common Roofing Issues
Wind lifts and creases shingles, moves flashing, exposes decking and lets water in. A documented inspection records those before the next storm makes them worse.
Freeport Snapshot
Weather history & local facts
Hail and wind on record near Freeport, in Brazoria County, plus a few local facts worth knowing.
Hail and wind on record here
NOAA logs no verified hail within 10 miles of Freeport since 2018; the record here is wind, with 2 thunderstorm wind events in that window, alongside the coastal systems this region plans around. Across Brazoria County as a whole, NOAA logged 16 hail events from 2016 through 2025, with hail to 1.75 inches, plus 48 damaging thunderstorm wind events and 14 tornado reports.
Worth Knowing
Freeport anchors one of the largest petrochemical complexes on the Gulf Coast at the mouth of the Brazos.
Local Note
Industrial-corridor housing here faces the Gulf’s full wind exposure, so fastening and uplift matter most.
What the storm record means locally
Storm facts were checked against NOAA and National Weather Service records and local news from the time.
On record
What has actually fallen on Freeport
7 hail events are on record within ten miles of Freeport, the largest 1.75 inches on April 2, 2000.
Reading the public storm record
To see the days radar recorded hail near your own address, use our hail history lookup.
| Hail events on record | 7 |
|---|---|
| Reached 1.75 in or larger | 1 |
| Largest stone recorded | 1.75 in · April 2, 2000 |
| Busiest year | 2015 · 2 events |
| Most common months | April and July |
| Strongest gust in the archive | 65 mph · December 30, 2002 |
| Radar hail days, 1 in or larger | 78 days · 2000-2026 · largest signature 4.00 in |
| Preliminary reports, last 12 months | none of 1 in or larger on file |
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database · Brazoria County · 2000-2026 · within 10 miles of the Freeport centroid. Counts are reported events, so they undercount: a stone that fell where nobody reported it is not in the record.
Checked October 23, 2026 against two feeds that do not share the archive's bias: radar hail signatures from the NEXRAD hail detection algorithm (NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory, same 10 mile radius, 2000-2026), counted as days with a signature of one inch or larger, and the Storm Prediction Center's preliminary reports for the last 12 months, which are unreviewed and never a competing total. A radar day and a reported event are different units and are not expected to match: the archive needs a witness and undercounts, radar needs none and can flag hail that melted before it landed. What fell on one roof is settled by a documented inspection, not by any of these counts.
Year by year
Hail in Freeport, 2006 to 2025
One row per year of hail reports one inch or larger near Freeport, newest first, from the weather archive.
Twenty seasons, one row each
One row per year, newest first. Each row counts the hail reports of one inch or larger within ten miles of Freeport, from the National Weather Service archive. 4 reports from 2006 to 2025, 0 of them at or above 1.75 inches, golf ball size. Counting only stones of one inch or larger, the busiest year in this table was 2015. If you owned your roof through any of these dates, the row is the reason to know what it took.
| Year | Reports 1 in+ | 1.75 in+ | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
Show all 20 years (2006 to 2025)
| Year | Reports 1 in+ | 1.75 in+ | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1.50 in · May 21 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 1.50 in · April 17 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in · April 4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2006 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, hail events 2006 through 2025 within 10 miles of the Freeport centroid. Reports are observer-driven, so a stone that fell where nobody reported it is not in the record, and small towns are undercounted relative to cities. Full calendar years only; the current year is not shown until it is complete.
Wind & Storm History
Documented storm exposure in Freeport
The worst hail seasons near Freeport from 2006 to 2025, year by year.
Wind & Hurricane Frequency
NOAA logs 25 verified thunderstorm wind reports within 10 miles of Freeport since 1996; the busiest year was 2006 with 5 reports. Hurricane season runs June through November on this coast.
What To Document
Lifted or creased shingles, moved flashing, exposed decking, debris hits, and water getting in after a storm.
The worst hail seasons near Freeport, 2006 to 2025
- 2015: 2 reports of hail one inch or larger, largest 1.5 inches on April 17
- 2016: 1 report of hail one inch or larger, largest 1.5 inches on May 21
- 2012: 1 report of hail one inch or larger, largest 1 inch on April 4
Neighborhood Exposure
Neighborhoods across Freeport differ in lot elevation, tree cover and roof age. A record of your block beats an estimate for the whole area. After any significant storm, a documented record of visible conditions protects your position.
What the record confirms
Verified storm record for the Houston and Gulf Coast region Freeport sits in. Roof condition changes with every season, which is why the homeowner should own the documentation.
Hurricane Beryl
A July 8 landfall with a 97 mph gust knocked out power to about 2.2 million customers and stripped shingles across the metro.
Hurricane Harvey
A Category 4 landfall that stalled and dropped up to 60 inches of rain, the wettest tropical cyclone in U.S. history, with damage estimated near 125 billion dollars.
April 17 ping pong ball size hail
NOAA verifies 1.5 inch hail in Lake Jackson Arpt on April 17, 2015, a ping pong ball size stone.
December 30 75 mph gust
NOAA verifies a 75 mph thunderstorm gust at Lake Jackson on December 30, 2002.
April 2 golf ball size hail
NOAA verifies 1.75 inch hail in Clute on April 2, 2000, a golf ball size stone.
How these figures are corroborated
Figures drawn from public NOAA, National Weather Service, and Insurance Council of Texas, U.S. Census, and Texas Department of Insurance records and contemporaneous reporting. Not a formal risk assessment.
About Freeport
Local ground truth for Freeport properties
Freeport sits in Brazoria County in the Houston and Gulf Coast region, home to roughly 10,635 residents (Census Bureau estimate, 2024). Gulf moisture and hurricane-season wind set the roofing risk profile here.
Roof age, by the census
How old the roofs in Freeport are likely to be
Census figures on when Freeport homes were built, which tells you roughly when their first roofs went on.
When the houses went up
Freeport has 5,193 housing units in the Census Bureau's latest five-year estimate. The median home was built in 1973. 88 percent were built before 2000 and 76 percent before 1990; 7 percent have been built since 2010. Half or more of the homes here predate 2000. An original asphalt-shingle roof from that era is at or past the 20-to-30-year service life typically cited for asphalt shingles, and many will already be on a second roof, which is worth confirming from a permit or a receipt rather than assuming.
| Year built | Homes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Built 2020 or later | 0 | 0% |
| Built 2010 to 2019 | 350 | 7% |
| Built 2000 to 2009 | 295 | 6% |
| Built 1990 to 1999 | 592 | 11% |
| Built 1980 to 1989 | 790 | 15% |
Show all ten brackets (1939 or earlier to 2020 or later)
| Year built | Homes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Built 1970 to 1979 | 815 | 16% |
| Built 1960 to 1969 | 556 | 11% |
| Built 1950 to 1959 | 1,086 | 21% |
| Built 1940 to 1949 | 388 | 7% |
| Built 1939 or earlier | 321 | 6% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 five-year estimates, tables B25034 and B25035, Freeport city. ACS figures are estimates with published margins of error; shares are rounded to whole percents. Year built is the structure, not the roof: it says when the first roof went on, not whether it is still there.
Roofer Near Freeport
Everything we cover in Freeport
All the work we do, in Freeport and in all of Brazoria County.
What we cover in Freeport
Roofing, painting, gutters and home services, in Freeport and across Brazoria County. Freeport, in Brazoria County, is about 216 miles and 4 hours 5 minutes by road from our Round Rock base.
Services available in Freeport
Every service below is available to Freeport homeowners, as it is anywhere in Texas.
All services
Documentation First
Full property capability in Freeport, documented first
Documentation You Own
Every visit produces a dated photo and video record of your roof, flashing, decking lines and gutters. You get a written account of what is visible, and your options, before you decide on any repair or claim.
Evidence, Not Pressure
Built on a law enforcement background of 16+ years. You get the record and a clear explanation, the decisions stay yours. No sales pitch, no obligation.
Coordinated & Accountable
In the Houston and Gulf Coast region, the Roof Shepherd team does the roofing work, so the standard stays the same.
Houston Zone
How service works in Freeport
How far Freeport is from our base, and who handles your project from start to finish.
Who runs the inspection
Freeport, in Brazoria County, is about 216 miles and 4 hours 5 minutes by road from our Round Rock base. David Rodrigues, the founder, looks at your Freeport roof and writes down what he sees before anyone talks repair or replacement. If you go ahead, The Roof Shepherd runs the job from contract to walkthrough. Our project delivery page explains who does what.
Local Conditions
What is different about working on Freeport homes
Freeport side by side with its three nearest neighbors on this site.
What roofs face in this market
Nearby, from 2000 to 2026: Clute 1, Angleton 5 and Galveston 2 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, against 1 for Freeport. Of the other cities on this site, 94 percent have newer homes than Freeport.
| City | Hail 1.75 in+, biggest stone |
|---|---|
| Freeport | 1, 1.75 in |
| Clute (6 mi) | 1, 1.75 in |
| Angleton (16 mi) | 5, 2.5 in |
| Galveston (28 mi) | 2, 1.75 in |
Severe hail: reports of 1.75 inches or larger, 2000 to 2026, within ten miles of each city center (NOAA NCEI Storm Events). Miles are straight-line between city centers.
The largest hail recorded near Freeport, by date:
| Date | Largest stone |
|---|---|
| May 21, 2016 | 1.5″ |
| April 17, 2015 | 1.5″ |
| July 29, 2005 | 1.0″ |
| April 2, 2000 | 1.75″ |
Freeport sits in Texas windstorm territory. Brazoria County is one of the fourteen seacoast counties inside the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association area, and that changes what a roof has to prove. Work here generally requires a Texas Department of Insurance WPI-8 certificate, issued after inspection, confirming the installation meets windstorm building requirements. Without it, windstorm coverage on the structure can be affected. It is not paperwork you discover after the job; the inspection has to be scheduled into the work.
Useful locally: City of Freeport official site for permit and inspection rules; NWS forecast for Freeport before scheduling work.
Storm figures: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events within a 10 mile radius, 2000 to 2026. Windstorm territory per Texas Windstorm Insurance Association county designations.
The rules here
Roof permits and code in Freeport
What the city's own documents say about a re-roof permit and code here, and the date they were read.
What the city's own documents say
Freeport publishes a roof permit procedure, and a hired contractor must pull the permit. The contractor must also show a windstorm application filed with the Texas Department of Insurance before work starts, and a WPI-8 certificate after completion.
Freeport's code adopts the 2021 International Residential Code by Ordinance 2025-2738, dated July 7, 2025, though its roof sheet cites the 2015 code. Freeport is in Brazoria County, a state designated windstorm area.
Read at the city's own pages and code on October 14, 2026. The city's current document governs if it changes, so we confirm the rule for your address before work starts. Our permits and codes by city page explains how Texas cities set these rules.
Exterior & Painting
What Freeport homeowners should know about exterior work
Get the roof documented first, since a roof visit often turns up fascia, gutter and trim damage.
Managed by The Roof Shepherd
Exterior work in Freeport, from painting and epoxy coatings to siding, drywall, gutters and wood repair, is done here the same way it is done everywhere we work in Texas, by the Roof Shepherd team, start to finish. We document exterior condition during the roof visit so the work starts from an accurate record.
Sequence Matters
Get the roof documented first. Exterior work comes after. A roof visit often turns up fascia rot, pulled gutters and trim damage that change what the exterior job costs before any work begins.
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Homeowner Reviews
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Owner Response
Thank you, Brandie. I appreciate you trusting me with the new construction roof inspection on your home in Lexington, Texas. A new roof should be installed the way the shingle manufacturer's instructions and the building code require, and you deserve to know that before you sign off. I was glad to walk you through what to look for, document what I found, and help you ask your builder the right questions. Thank you for the recommendation. It means a great deal as I keep building The Roof Shepherd one honest inspection at a time.
David did an amazing job working with us to get our roof repaired during the sale of our home. He was very responsive to communication, knowledgeable, kept to his schedules, and was very easy to work with. If we were keeping the home, I definitely would have hired him for a full roof replacement when the time came. Would definitely recommend using his services.
Owner Response
Thank you so much for the kind review. I really appreciate the opportunity to help with the roof repair during the sale of your home. I know timing, communication, and documentation matter in that situation, so I’m glad I was able to help make the process easier. Your recommendation means a lot, and I wish you all the best with your next chapter.
I cannot think of a more fitting name for roofing contractor David Rodrigues than “The Roof Shepherd.” David was involved in every aspect of this process, start to finish, including a thorough inspection upon completion. By definition, a shepherd carefully guides or helps one navigate a complex process. He did exactly that! I walked away not only with a beautiful new roof, but also with the peace of mind and confidence of knowing I had made the right decision—choosing this company and selecting the right roof to withstand the storms in my area, while also making a smart investment in my home. David’s attention to detail was unmatched by any other roofing professional I met. He provided excellent customer service from start to finish, and I truly appreciated his guidance throughout the process. I am grateful for the outstanding experience and would confidently recommend The Roof Shepherd to anyone looking for quality roofing service.
Owner Response
Deborah, thank you for such a thoughtful review. Your description of what it means to be “The Roof Shepherd” captures exactly how I approach this work: personally guiding homeowners through every decision, staying involved from the initial inspection through the final quality-control walkthrough, and making sure the finished roofing system is built for the home, not merely installed and forgotten.
For your roof replacement in Kyle, Texas, we selected a GAF Timberline UHDZ Class 4 roofing system in Pewter Gray for its appearance, hail-resistance classification, long-term protection, and value as an investment in the home. The completed system includes all-metal roofing accessories, properly configured turbine ventilation, and GAF Golden Pledge Limited Warranty coverage.
Once the existing roof was removed, we also discovered and replaced a substantial amount of rotten wood decking. Correcting that deterioration before installing the new system was essential to restoring a sound foundation for the roof. Despite the additional decking work, our team completed the project in one day and followed it with a thorough final inspection.
I sincerely appreciate the trust you placed in me and the opportunity to guide you through the process. Knowing that you finished the project with both a beautiful roof and confidence in your decision is the result I work toward for every homeowner.
David, The Roof Shepherd
Nearby
Nearby areas we serve
Nearby cities we also serve
The Roof Shepherd also documents and serves these Houston and Gulf Coast communities. Distances are straight-line miles from the center of Freeport, and each hail figure is the count of NOAA-verified hail events within 10 miles of that city since 2018:
Freeport FAQs
Common questions in Freeport
Does The Roof Shepherd serve Freeport regularly?
Yes. Freeport is about 216 miles and 4 hours 5 minutes by road from Round Rock, our home base. We work across Texas, and Brazoria County is part of that.
How often does large hail hit Freeport?
Hail 1.75 inches or larger, golf ball size, was reported once within ten miles of Freeport from 2000 to 2026. That ranks 205th of the 207 Texas cities on this site, and 51st of 53 in Houston & Gulf Coast. The largest stone on record within ten miles from 2000 to 2026 measured 1.75 inches, on April 2, 2000.
When is hail season in Freeport?
From 2000 to 2026, hail within ten miles of Freeport came most often in April and July. The busiest single year in that record was 2015, with 2 reports of every size.
What was the worst recent hail year in Freeport?
2015 was the worst season here from 2006 to 2025: 2 reports of hail one inch or larger, the largest 1.5 inches on April 17. The table on this page lists every year.
How does Freeport compare with nearby towns for hail?
Nearby, from 2000 to 2026: Clute 1, Angleton 5 and Galveston 2 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, against 1 for Freeport.
How old are the homes in Freeport?
The median home in Freeport was built in 1973, and 76 percent of homes here were built before 1990. Of the other cities on this site, 94 percent have newer homes than Freeport.
What is the strongest wind on record near Freeport?
The strongest thunderstorm wind gust reported within ten miles from 2000 to 2026 was 65 mph, on December 30, 2002.
How much does a new roof cost in Freeport?
It depends on the roof’s size, pitch, material, decking and vents. We look at your roof in Freeport first, so any price you weigh fits its real condition. Our price guides for all four trades are on the RPGs page.
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