Fred Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over twenty years, and I can tell you straight up—Fred doesn’t get lucky when it comes to weather. We sit right in that sweet spot where the Gulf moisture rolls in and collides with the cooler air coming off the Hill Country, and that’s a recipe for some nasty, spinning supercells. Those storms don’t just pass through; they park over us, and the hail they drop isn’t that little pea-sized stuff. We routinely see golf ball and even baseball-sized stones, and when that wind kicks up to sixty or seventy miles an hour, it’s driving those ice chunks sideways into your shingles at an angle that just shreds the granules right off. It’s not a matter of if, but when, your roof is going to take a beating.

And here’s the thing that catches a lot of folks off guard—our storm season isn’t just one month. We get the big spring squalls in April and May, sure, but we also get those violent pop-up thunderstorms in the middle of summer and even some strong cold fronts in the fall that’ll surprise you. The geography doesn’t help, either. We’re surrounded by open ranchland and those rolling hills, so there’s nothing to break up the wind. It just howls straight across the flat pastures and slams into your roofline with zero resistance. I’ve seen brand new architectural shingles look like someone took a hammer to them after one bad Tuesday afternoon. If you’ve got a roof that’s older than ten years, you’re basically sitting on a ticking clock every time the sky turns that weird green color.