Fannin Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in this county for over twenty years, and I can tell you Fannin sits right in a bullseye for some of the nastiest weather in Texas. We’re smack in the middle of that corridor where the dry line from the west slams into the Gulf moisture coming up from the coast, and that’s a recipe for supercell thunderstorms that just love to spin up. Those storms don’t mess around—they’ll drop hail the size of golf balls or bigger, and the wind that comes with them isn’t just a straight-line gust, it’s like a freight train rolling over your ridge. The geography here doesn’t help either; we’ve got all this open, flat farmland that gives the wind zero resistance, so it just builds speed and hammers whatever’s in its path, and your roof is the first thing to take the hit.

And it’s not just a one-and-done thing, either. Our severe season really gets going in the spring, usually March through May, but we’ll see another nasty round in the fall, especially in October when those cold fronts start pushing down and stirring things up again. I’ve seen homes here get hit twice in the same year, and the second storm always finds the weak spots the first one left behind—those little dings in the shingles that you can’t see from the ground but are just waiting to peel back in a 70-mile-an-hour gust. The heat in the summer doesn’t do you any favors, either; it bakes those shingles brittle, so when the next storm rolls through, they crack instead of flexing. Bottom line, if you live in Fannin, your roof isn’t just a cover over your head—it’s a punching bag for some of the most violent weather in the state, and you’ve got to treat it that way.