Redford Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in this part of the county for over twenty years, and I can tell you Redford gets hit harder than folks realize. It’s not just the big spring storms that roll through in April and May—though those are brutal. We sit right in that corridor where the dry desert air from the west collides with the humid Gulf moisture pushing up from the south. That clash doesn’t just make for dramatic sunsets; it creates those supercell thunderstorms that spin up out of nowhere, usually late in the afternoon. The hail that comes with those isn’t the polite little pea-sized stuff you see in other places. We routinely see golf ball to baseball sized stones, and when they’re falling at a slant with 60 or 70 mile-per-hour winds behind them, they don’t just bounce off your shingles—they hammer them like a machine gun, bruising the matting and knocking the granules clean off.

What makes it even worse is the geography right around here. We’re on that high, flat plateau with nothing but open ranch land for miles to the west, so there’s zero tree line or hills to break up the wind. A storm can build up speed over all that flat ground and hit your house with the full, unfiltered force of a freight train. And it’s not just the spring—we get a second nasty window in late September and October when those cold fronts start pushing down again, catching the last of the summer heat. That’s when you get the straight-line winds, the kind that peel shingles back like sardine cans and send loose debris flying into your roof deck. I’ve seen brand new architectural shingles look like they’ve been through a war after just one of those October blow-throughs, and if you’ve got any age on your roof at all, that’s when the real damage starts showing up in your attic.