Galveston County
Galveston, 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 Galveston homeowners.
Updated November 1, 2026
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The short version
- Galveston, in Galveston County, is about 226 miles and 4 hours 32 minutes by road from our Round Rock base.
- Hail 1.75 inches or larger was reported 2 times near Galveston from 2000 to 2026, 201st of the 207 cities on this site.
- 2015 was the worst season here from 2006 to 2025: 1 report of hail 1.75 inches or larger, the largest 1.75 inches on April 25.
- The median home in Galveston was built in 1973, and 76 percent of homes here were built before 1990.
- All three of its nearest neighbors had more large hail.
Call or text 512-575-5052 or use Get Help to start with a documented inspection in Galveston, Galveston County.
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Galveston At A Glance
What homeowners in Galveston should know
How Galveston ranks for large hail and home age, and who sets permit rules here.
Galveston, in Galveston County, is about 226 miles and 4 hours 32 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
Galveston’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. Galveston is the Galveston County seat on a barrier island, the most hurricane- and surge-exposed city in the region.
Wind & Storm Exposure
The strongest thunderstorm wind gust reported within ten miles from 2000 to 2026 was 81 mph, on April 17, 2015. NOAA logged 16 thunderstorm wind reports within ten miles of Galveston from 2000 to 2026.
The Homes Here
The median home in Galveston 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 Galveston.
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.
Galveston Snapshot
Weather history & local facts
Hail and wind on record near Galveston, in Galveston County, plus a few local facts worth knowing.
Hail and wind on record here
NOAA logs no verified hail reports within 10 miles of Galveston since 2018; the record here is wind. 8 thunderstorm wind events sit inside that window, alongside the tropical systems this coast plans around. Salt air and wind, not hail, do the aging here. Across Galveston County as a whole, NOAA logged 18 hail events from 2016 through 2025, with hail to 2.75 inches, plus 48 damaging thunderstorm wind events and 11 tornado reports.
Worth Knowing
Most storm damage to a roof isn’t visible from the ground. A documented inspection captures bruising, lifted shingles, and flashing issues before they turn into leaks.
Local Note
Galveston sits in Galveston County, within the Houston and Gulf Coast region. Every service we list is available here and anywhere else in Texas, and The Roof Shepherd team does the work from start to finish.
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 Galveston
8 hail events are on record within ten miles of Galveston, the largest 1.75 inches on May 10, 2013.
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 | 8 |
|---|---|
| Reached 1.75 in or larger | 2 |
| Largest stone recorded | 1.75 in · May 10, 2013 |
| Busiest year | 2002 · 2 events |
| Most common months | April and May |
| Strongest gust in the archive | 81 mph · April 17, 2015 |
| Radar hail days, 1 in or larger | 119 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 · Galveston County · 2000-2026 · within 10 miles of the Galveston centroid. Counts are reported events, so they undercount: a stone that fell where nobody reported it is not in the record.
Checked November 1, 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 Galveston, 2006 to 2025
One row per year of hail reports one inch or larger near Galveston, 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 Galveston, from the National Weather Service archive. 3 reports from 2006 to 2025, 2 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 2013. 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 | 1.00 in · May 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1.75 in · April 25 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2013 | 1 | 1 | 1.75 in · May 10 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 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 | below 1 in |
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, hail events 2006 through 2025 within 10 miles of the Galveston 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 Galveston
The worst hail seasons near Galveston from 2006 to 2025, year by year.
Wind & Hurricane Frequency
NOAA logs 20 verified thunderstorm wind reports within 10 miles of Galveston since 1996; the busiest year was 2024 with 3 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 Galveston, 2006 to 2025
- 2015: 1 report of hail 1.75 inches or larger, largest 1.75 inches on April 25
- 2013: 1 report of hail 1.75 inches or larger, largest 1.75 inches on May 10
Neighborhood Exposure
Neighborhoods across Galveston 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 Galveston 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 81 mph gust
NOAA verifies an 81 mph thunderstorm gust at Jamaica Beach on April 17, 2015.
May 10 golf ball size hail
NOAA verifies 1.75 inch hail in Jamaica Beach on May 10, 2013, a golf ball size stone.
April 8 quarter size hail
NOAA verifies 1 inch hail in San Luis Pass on April 8, 2002, a quarter size stone.
How these figures are corroborated
Figures drawn from public NOAA, National Weather Service, Insurance Council of Texas, U.S. Census and Texas Department of Insurance records and contemporaneous reporting. Not a formal risk assessment.
About Galveston
Local ground truth for Galveston properties
Galveston sits in Galveston County in the Houston and Gulf Coast region, home to roughly 53,538 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 Galveston are likely to be
Census figures on when Galveston homes were built, which tells you roughly when their first roofs went on.
When the houses went up
Galveston has 34,921 housing units in the Census Bureau's latest five-year estimate. The median home was built in 1973. 82 percent were built before 2000 and 76 percent before 1990; 9 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 | 141 | 0% |
| Built 2010 to 2019 | 2,859 | 8% |
| Built 2000 to 2009 | 3,203 | 9% |
| Built 1990 to 1999 | 2,260 | 6% |
| Built 1980 to 1989 | 5,010 | 14% |
Show all ten brackets (1939 or earlier to 2020 or later)
| Year built | Homes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Built 1970 to 1979 | 5,654 | 16% |
| Built 1960 to 1969 | 4,574 | 13% |
| Built 1950 to 1959 | 3,183 | 9% |
| Built 1940 to 1949 | 1,386 | 4% |
| Built 1939 or earlier | 6,651 | 19% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 five-year estimates, tables B25034 and B25035, Galveston 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 Galveston
Everything we cover in Galveston
All the work we do, in Galveston and in all of Galveston County.
What we cover in Galveston
Roofing, painting, gutters and home services, in Galveston and across Galveston County. Galveston, in Galveston County, is about 226 miles and 4 hours 32 minutes by road from our Round Rock base.
Services available in Galveston
Every service below is available to Galveston homeowners, as it is anywhere in Texas.
All services
Documentation First
Full property capability in Galveston, 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 Galveston
How far Galveston is from our base, and who handles your project from start to finish.
Who runs the inspection
Galveston, in Galveston County, is about 226 miles and 4 hours 32 minutes by road from our Round Rock base. David Rodrigues, the founder, looks at your Galveston 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 Galveston homes
Galveston side by side with its three nearest neighbors on this site.
What roofs face in this market
Nearby, from 2000 to 2026: Hitchcock 6, La Marque 10 and Santa Fe 13 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, against 2 for Galveston. Of the other cities on this site, 94 percent have newer homes than Galveston.
| City | Hail 1.75 in+, biggest stone |
|---|---|
| Galveston | 2, 1.75 in |
| Hitchcock (7 mi) | 6, 4.5 in |
| La Marque (13 mi) | 10, 4.5 in |
| Santa Fe (16 mi) | 13, 4.5 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 Galveston, by date:
| Date | Largest stone |
|---|---|
| May 2, 2016 | 1.0″ |
| April 25, 2015 | 1.75″ |
| May 10, 2013 | 1.75″ |
| April 8, 2002 | 1.0″ |
Galveston sits in Texas windstorm territory. Galveston 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 Galveston official site for permit and inspection rules; NWS forecast for Galveston 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 Galveston
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
Galveston's fee schedule sets the roof permit for an existing structure at $150, doubled if work starts without the required permit. The city requires a Texas Department of Insurance WPI-8 certificate when a roofing replacement is complete.
Contractors register with a $200 fee plus $25 a year, $300,000 liability insurance, and a $25,000 surety bond. The city adopted the 2021 International Residential Code by Ordinance 23-012 on January 26, 2023.
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 Galveston 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 Galveston, 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.
Google Reviews
Homeowner Reviews
David was amazing! Highly recommend for all roofing needs! He’s honest and reliable!
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.
I recently got a roof installed and my trim painted with this company. The process was simple — David helped me pick out colors for the roof, and I had no idea there were so many to choose from. I appreciate David and his crew for taking care of my home and respecting my property by making sure everything was masked and cleaned up by the end of the process. These guys were on time, efficient, took care of everything I asked for, kept me updated throughout, and took care of the small details I was picky about. I would highly recommend!
Owner Response
Sloan, I really appreciate you taking the time to share this. It was a pleasure helping with your roof installation, trim painting, and the color-selection process. I’m glad the process felt simple and that the crew respected your property with proper masking, cleanup, and communication throughout the project. Those details matter, especially when we are working on someone’s home. Thank you again for trusting The Roof Shepherd with your roof and painting work.
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 Galveston, and each hail figure is the count of NOAA-verified hail events within 10 miles of that city since 2018:
Galveston FAQs
Common questions in Galveston
Does The Roof Shepherd serve Galveston regularly?
Yes. Galveston is about 226 miles and 4 hours 32 minutes by road from Round Rock, our home base. We work across Texas, and Galveston County is part of that.
How often does large hail hit Galveston?
Hail 1.75 inches or larger, golf ball size, was reported 2 times within ten miles of Galveston from 2000 to 2026. That ranks 201st of the 207 Texas cities on this site, and 47th of 51 in Houston & Gulf Coast. The largest stone on record within ten miles from 2000 to 2026 measured 1.75 inches, on May 10, 2013.
When is hail season in Galveston?
From 2000 to 2026, hail within ten miles of Galveston came most often in April and May. The busiest single year in that record was 2002, with 2 reports of every size.
What was the worst recent hail year in Galveston?
2015 was the worst season here from 2006 to 2025: 1 report of hail 1.75 inches or larger, the largest 1.75 inches on April 25. The table on this page lists every year.
How does Galveston compare with nearby towns for hail?
Nearby, from 2000 to 2026: Hitchcock 6, La Marque 10 and Santa Fe 13 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, against 2 for Galveston.
How old are the homes in Galveston?
The median home in Galveston 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 Galveston.
What is the strongest wind on record near Galveston?
The strongest thunderstorm wind gust reported within ten miles from 2000 to 2026 was 81 mph, on April 17, 2015.
How much does a new roof cost in Galveston?
It depends on the roof’s size, pitch, material, decking and vents. We look at your roof in Galveston 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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