Frost Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs out here for over twenty years, and I can tell you Frost doesn’t mess around when it comes to weather. We sit right in that corridor between the Hill Country and the Blackland Prairie, which means we’re a magnet for those supercell thunderstorms that build up in the late afternoon during March, April, and May. The geography here is flat enough that there’s nothing to break up the wind, so when a storm rolls in from the southwest, it comes at your house like a freight train with no brakes. Those straight-line winds can easily hit 70 or 80 miles an hour, and they’ll peel shingles right off the deck if they’re not nailed down just right. And it’s not just the wind—the hail that drops out of these cells is often the size of golf balls or bigger, and because the storms are moving so fast, they hammer one side of your roof with a barrage of impacts before you even hear the first crack of thunder.

What really gets folks is that we don’t just get one or two of these a year—we get a whole season of them, sometimes stretching into June and then picking back up in the fall. The hail here isn’t that soft, pea-sized stuff you see up north; it’s dense, icy chunks that hit with enough force to bruise the shingles, knock the granules off, and leave those little black divots that turn into leaks down the road. And because the wind is coming from a different direction almost every time, your ridge caps and the edges of your roof take the brunt, which are the hardest spots to repair without replacing the whole thing. I’ve seen brand new roofs get shredded in a single twenty-minute storm, and it’s not because the workmanship was bad—it’s just that Frost sits right in the bullseye of some of the most violent weather in Texas, and your roof takes the hit every single time.