Denton County
Pilot Point, 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 Pilot Point homeowners.
Updated October 25, 2026
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The short version
- Pilot Point, in Denton County, is about 227 miles and 4 hours 10 minutes by road from our Round Rock base.
- Hail 1.75 inches or larger was reported 12 times near Pilot Point from 2000 to 2026, 141st of the 207 cities on this site.
- 2014 was the worst season here from 2006 to 2025: 3 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, the largest 2.75 inches on April 3.
- The median home in Pilot Point was built in 1989, and 51 percent of homes here were built before 1990.
- All three of its nearest neighbors had more large hail.
To book a documented inspection in Pilot Point, call or text 512-575-5052 or send the Get Help form.
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Pilot Point At A Glance
What homeowners in Pilot Point should know
How Pilot Point ranks for large hail and home age, and who sets permit rules here.
Pilot Point, in Denton County, is about 227 miles and 4 hours 10 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.
Hail Alley
Pilot Point sits in North Texas, which records the most hailstorms in Texas in a typical year, the state logged 878 major hail events in 2024. A written record after a storm protects your position before any repair decision. Pilot Point is a fast-growing Denton County city south of Arlington, with newer suburban homes exposed to recurring North Texas hail.
Hail & Storm Exposure
Hail 1.75 inches or larger, golf ball size, was reported 12 times within ten miles of Pilot Point from 2000 to 2026. That ranks 141st of the 207 Texas cities on this site, and 82nd of 84 in North Texas.
The Homes Here
The median home in Pilot Point was built in 1989, and 51 percent of homes here were built before 1990. Of the other cities on this site, 56 percent have newer homes than Pilot Point.
Common Roofing Issues
Repeated large hail leaves bruised shingles, lost granules and dented vents and flashing. A documented inspection records those before the next storm makes them worse.
Pilot Point Snapshot
Weather history & local facts
Recorded hail and wind around Pilot Point in Denton County, set beside a few facts about the town.
Hail and wind on record here
Pilot Point’s verified NOAA record since 2018 includes 3 inch hail at Pioneer Vly on May 25, 2024, 1.75 inch hail at Aubrey on April 8, 2024, and 1.75 inch hail in Pilot Pt on June 15, 2023. 9 thunderstorm wind events and 6 tornado reports sit inside the same 10 mile window. Peak hail months here: May and November. Across Denton County as a whole, NOAA logged 373 hail events from 2016 through 2025, with hail to 5.9 inches, plus 139 damaging thunderstorm wind events and 10 tornado reports.
Worth Knowing
Pilot Point is one of Denton County’s oldest towns, known for its horse farms and historic square.
Local Note
North Texas horse country mixes historic square buildings with ranch properties, each roofed differently.
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 Pilot Point
The archive counts 60 hail events near Pilot Point; the biggest stone was 3.00 inches, on May 25, 2024.
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 | 60 |
|---|---|
| Reached 1.75 in or larger | 12 |
| Largest stone recorded | 3.00 in · May 25, 2024 |
| Busiest year | 2021 · 7 events |
| Most common months | April and May |
| Strongest gust in the archive | 75 mph · February 9, 2009 |
| Radar hail days, 1 in or larger | 319 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 · Denton County · 2000-2026 · within 10 miles of the Pilot Point 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 Pilot Point, 2006 to 2025
Twenty seasons of hail of one inch or more near Pilot Point, one row each, with the latest year at the top.
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 Pilot Point, from the National Weather Service archive. 39 reports from 2006 to 2025, 12 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 2021. 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 | 1 | 0 | 1.25 in · September 5 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2 | 3.00 in · May 25 |
| 2023 | 5 | 2 | 1.75 in · March 2 |
| 2022 | 3 | 0 | 1.25 in · May 16 |
| 2021 | 7 | 0 | 1.25 in · November 10 |
Show all 20 years (2006 to 2025)
| Year | Reports 1 in+ | 1.75 in+ | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in · March 19 |
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | below 1 in |
| 2018 | 3 | 0 | 1.00 in · April 13 |
| 2017 | 4 | 2 | 2.00 in · April 21 |
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | below 1 in |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2014 | 4 | 3 | 2.75 in · April 3 |
| 2013 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 1.25 in · May 30 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in · May 24 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 | below 1 in |
| 2009 | 3 | 2 | 1.75 in · May 8 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 1.75 in · April 4 |
| 2007 | 0 | 0 | none reported |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1.00 in · August 12 |
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, hail events 2006 through 2025 within 10 miles of the Pilot Point 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.
Hail History
Documented storm exposure in Pilot Point
The worst hail seasons near Pilot Point from 2006 to 2025, year by year.
Hail Frequency
NOAA storm records log 30 hail events within 10 miles of Pilot Point since 2018, 10 of them inside the city’s immediate 6 mile ring. The largest verified stone measured 3 inches on May 25, 2024. Since 2018, hail here peaks in April and May.
What To Document
Bruised shingles, granule loss, and soft-metal damage to gutters, vents, and flashing, often invisible from the ground.
The worst hail seasons near Pilot Point, 2006 to 2025
- 2014: 3 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, largest 2.75 inches on April 3
- 2024: 2 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, largest 3 inches on May 25
- 2023: 2 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, largest 1.75 inches on March 2
Neighborhood Exposure
Neighborhoods across Pilot Point 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.
How these figures are corroborated
Verified hail and wind events across the Dallas and Fort Worth metroplex, the region Pilot Point sits in. Roof condition changes with every storm season, which is why the homeowner should own the documentation.
Verified Storm Record
May 25 teacup size hail
NOAA verifies 3 inch hail in Pioneer Vly on May 25, 2024, a teacup size stone.
April 21 hen egg size hail
NOAA verifies 2 inch hail in Collinsville on April 21, 2017, a hen egg size stone.
April 3 golf ball size hail
NOAA verifies 1.75 inch hail in Aubrey on April 3, 2014, a golf ball size stone.
April 3 baseball size hail
NOAA verifies 2.75 inch hail in Aubrey on April 3, 2014, a baseball size stone.
Live NOAA record Since September 2024, NOAA has logged 1 hail report within 10 miles of Pilot Point. The largest measured 1.25 inches on September 5, 2025, about 9.1 miles away. Damaging wind has been reported 2 times in the same period, most recently 77 mph on September 5, 2025. These are NOAA Storm Prediction Center preliminary reports covering September 23, 2024 to October 22, 2026. A report near a property confirms hail fell nearby. It does not confirm that any particular roof was damaged, and it is not a coverage determination.
About Pilot Point
Local ground truth for Pilot Point properties
Pilot Point sits in Denton County in North Texas, home to roughly 6,771 residents (Census Bureau estimate, 2024). The area rides the DFW hail alley, one of the most hail-struck metros in the country.
Roof age, by the census
How old the roofs in Pilot Point are likely to be
When Pilot Point houses went up, per the Census, and so roughly when their original roofs were put on.
When the houses went up
Pilot Point has 1,865 housing units in the Census Bureau's latest five-year estimate. The median home was built in 1989. 57 percent were built before 2000 and 51 percent before 1990; 22 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 | 47 | 3% |
| Built 2010 to 2019 | 354 | 19% |
| Built 2000 to 2009 | 398 | 21% |
| Built 1990 to 1999 | 114 | 6% |
| Built 1980 to 1989 | 350 | 19% |
Show all ten brackets (1939 or earlier to 2020 or later)
| Year built | Homes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Built 1970 to 1979 | 169 | 9% |
| Built 1960 to 1969 | 63 | 3% |
| Built 1950 to 1959 | 137 | 7% |
| Built 1940 to 1949 | 0 | 0% |
| Built 1939 or earlier | 233 | 12% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 five-year estimates, tables B25034 and B25035, Pilot Point 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 Pilot Point
Everything we cover in Pilot Point
All the work we do, in Pilot Point and in all of Denton County.
What we cover in Pilot Point
Roofing, painting, gutters and home services, in Pilot Point and across Denton County. Pilot Point, in Denton County, is about 227 miles and 4 hours 10 minutes by road from our Round Rock base.
How a visit is scheduled
Every service below is available to Pilot Point homeowners, as it is anywhere in Texas.
All services
Documentation First
Full property capability in Pilot Point, 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 North Texas, the Roof Shepherd team does the roofing work, so the standard stays the same.
Dallas Zone
How service works in Pilot Point
How far Pilot Point is from our base, and who handles your project from start to finish.
Who runs the inspection
Pilot Point, in Denton County, is about 227 miles and 4 hours 10 minutes by road from our Round Rock base. David Rodrigues, the founder, looks at your Pilot Point 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 Pilot Point homes
Pilot Point side by side with its three nearest neighbors on this site.
What roofs face in this market
Nearby, from 2000 to 2026: Little Elm 77, Denton 79 and Frisco 89 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, against 12 for Pilot Point. Of the other cities on this site, 56 percent have newer homes than Pilot Point.
| City | Hail 1.75 in+, biggest stone |
|---|---|
| Pilot Point | 12, 3 in |
| Little Elm (14 mi) | 77, 4.5 in |
| Denton (16 mi) | 79, 5.9 in |
| Frisco (18 mi) | 89, 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 Pilot Point, by date:
| Date | Largest stone |
|---|---|
| May 25, 2024 | 3.0″ |
| April 21, 2017 | 2.0″ |
| April 3, 2014 | 2.75″ |
| April 4, 2008 | 1.75″ |
Useful locally: City of Pilot Point official site for permit and inspection rules; NWS forecast for Pilot Point 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 Pilot Point
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
Pilot Point's fee schedule lists a permit for roof repair covering more than one square (100 square feet) of shingles. The permit fee is a flat $100, plus an $85 inspection fee.
General contractors, including roofing contractors, register with the city for $100. The city adopted the 2021 International Residential Code by Ordinance 554-15-2024 on March 26, 2024.
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 Pilot Point, TX homeowners should know about exterior work
Have the roof documented before exterior work, since fascia rot, loose gutters and trim damage often show up.
Local Paint & Exterior Note
Pilot Point mixes older homes near its center with newer subdivisions. Older frame and brick homes need routine exterior paint and wood care, while newer builds focus on trim and flashing.
Sequence Matters
Get the roof documented first. Painting and exterior repairs come after. Condition notes from a roof visit often surface fascia rot, gutter separation, and trim damage that affect painting scope and cost before a single brush stroke is applied.
Google Reviews
Homeowner Reviews
I happened to stumble across David while out walking my dogs and I am so glad I did! Godley had just been hit with a hail storm and needed someone to take a look at my roof to check for damage. David came the very next day to inspect. He showed me pictures of the damage and answered any questions I had. Thankfully the damage was not extensive that a roof replacement was needed but if indeed a replacement was needed I would’ve felt at ease with David completing the process. I especially liked his professionalism and knowledge. Should I ever need anyone for roofing services I will definitely be calling him!
Owner Response
Thank you, Dominique, for trusting The Roof Shepherd with your roof inspection after the hailstorm in Godley, Texas. I appreciate your kind words and am glad I could provide a thorough inspection and clearly explain what I found.
I also really enjoyed meeting your puppy during the visit. That was definitely a highlight of my day. If you ever have questions about your roof or need help after another storm, I will be glad to assist.
Dave was great — he went above and beyond what any company would do. There were major issues with my insurance company, and he was there every step of the way helping me get things done. Dave and his crew were great — they made sure my motorcycle was covered up properly during the work, and they cleaned up beautifully when they were done.
Owner Response
Thank you so much for this review and for trusting me and the crew with your home. I know this project had some difficult moments, especially with the insurance side of the process, and I’m grateful I was able to help with documentation, communication, and support along the way. It also means a lot that you noticed the care the crew took around your property and the cleanup after the roof was completed, because protecting the property matters just as much as the roof itself. I truly appreciate your kind words and your trust.
The Roof Shepherd is amazing. He is very knowledgeable and easy to talk to. Getting a new roof can be stressful, but he made the process super easy. He answered all our questions and concerns, worked with our insurance company, and gave us a good price for a new Class 4 roof. The workers were very courteous and professional — they went the extra mile, made sure everything was okay in the attic, worked around the gutters, installed new vents, and later repaired our shed connected to the house. They got everything done in one day, hours ahead of schedule. I highly recommend The Roof Shepherd to anyone that needs a new roof!
Owner Response
Thank you so much for this review. It really means a lot. Getting a new roof can be stressful, so I’m grateful we were able to make the process easier, walk through the insurance side, answer your questions, and get your Class 4 impact-rated roof installed the right way. I also appreciate you mentioning the crew. They worked hard, stayed professional, handled the attic and ventilation details, worked carefully around the gutters, and helped make sure the shed repair was taken care of afterward. Thank you again for trusting The Roof Shepherd with your home and for recommending us. It was a privilege to serve your family.
Nearby
Nearby areas we serve
Nearby cities we also serve
The Roof Shepherd also documents and serves these North Texas communities. Distances are straight-line miles from the center of Pilot Point, and each hail figure is the count of NOAA-verified hail events within 10 miles of that city since 2018:
Field Videos
From the field near Pilot Point
Real inspections and real conditions, documented, from Pilot Point and the DFW metro around it.
Field videos from real roofs, each with a short note on what the inspection or the work showed.
DFW Hail Just Hit Your Roof
Hail damage across the DFW metro, like anywhere in Texas, is often not obvious right away; what to look for and why early documentation matters.
Watch on YouTubeReal Hailstorm Damage in Dallas, Texas
Documented hail damage across multiple Dallas and Fort Worth homes, including shattered solar panels, after roughly 2.5 inch hail.
Watch on YouTubePilot Point FAQs
Common questions in Pilot Point
Does The Roof Shepherd serve Pilot Point regularly?
Yes. Pilot Point is about 227 miles and 4 hours 10 minutes by road from Round Rock, our home base. We work across Texas, and Denton County is part of that.
How often does large hail hit Pilot Point?
Hail 1.75 inches or larger, golf ball size, was reported 12 times within ten miles of Pilot Point from 2000 to 2026. That ranks 141st of the 207 Texas cities on this site, and 82nd of 84 in North Texas. The largest stone on record within ten miles from 2000 to 2026 measured 3 inches, on May 25, 2024.
When is hail season in Pilot Point?
From 2000 to 2026, hail within ten miles of Pilot Point came most often in April and May. The busiest single year in that record was 2021, with 7 reports of every size.
What was the worst recent hail year in Pilot Point?
2014 was the worst season here from 2006 to 2025: 3 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, the largest 2.75 inches on April 3. The table on this page lists every year.
How does Pilot Point compare with nearby towns for hail?
Nearby, from 2000 to 2026: Little Elm 77, Denton 79 and Frisco 89 reports of hail 1.75 inches or larger, against 12 for Pilot Point.
How old are the homes in Pilot Point?
The median home in Pilot Point was built in 1989, and 51 percent of homes here were built before 1990. Of the other cities on this site, 56 percent have newer homes than Pilot Point.
What is the strongest wind on record near Pilot Point?
The strongest thunderstorm wind gust reported within ten miles from 2000 to 2026 was 75 mph, on February 9, 2009.
How much does a new roof cost in Pilot Point?
It depends on the roof’s size, pitch, material, decking and vents. We look at your roof in Pilot Point 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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