Roof Repair & Storm Damage Replacement in Leander

Look, I’ve been roofing here for over fifteen years, and I can tell you Leander gets hit harder than folks realize. We sit right in that corridor where the Hill Country meets the open prairie, and that mix is a magnet for supercell storms. When those big systems roll in from the southwest, especially in the spring and early summer, they don’t just pass over—they stall and spin. The geography funnels the wind, and we regularly see straight-line gusts over 60 or 70 miles an hour, which is more than enough to peel back shingles if they’re even slightly aged. And the hail? It’s not the little pea-sized stuff you see in other parts of Texas. We get those big, jagged chunks—golf ball to baseball size—that come down at an angle, driven by that same wind. That combination is brutal because it doesn’t just dent a shingle; it cracks the fiberglass mat and knocks the granules clean off, which is what actually protects your roof from the sun.

The real kicker is the timing. Our worst months are typically April through June, but we’ve also seen nasty storms pop up in October and even December. The problem is that these storms often hit right after a long dry spell, and the heat has already made your shingles brittle. So when a hailstone slams into a roof that’s been baking at 140 degrees for weeks, it shatters on impact instead of bouncing off. And because Leander is still growing so fast, a lot of homes were built in the last ten years with cheaper, thinner architectural shingles that just don’t have the impact resistance for what we get. I’ve walked neighborhoods after a storm where one side of the street looks fine and the other side needs a full replacement, just based on which way the wind was blowing. It’s not a matter of *if* you’ll get hit, it’s a matter of how bad, and I’d rather you know that now than after the next big one rolls through.