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Most Katy roofs damaged in 2024 looked fine from the driveway. The May 16, 2024 derecho and Hurricane Beryl on July 8, 2024 did their harm at the shingle seal, the ridge cap and the flashing, and a roof that was five years old when they arrived was no safer than one that was twenty-five.
The newest parts of Katy are also its most recently roofed. Elyson still has ten builders selling homes, according to the community's own site, and Cross Creek Ranch was still opening phases in 2026. A house finished in 2019 has a roof that was seven years old when Beryl came through and five when the derecho did. It is under warranty, it carries a color-matched ridge cap, and nobody expects it to need looking at.
That is exactly the roof this page is for. Builder-grade shingles are sealed to the course below by a strip of factory adhesive. A hard gust breaks that seal without tearing anything, and the loose tab lies back down. From the ground nothing has happened. From the attic, or from a ladder, the row of unsealed tabs is plain, and the next ordinary storm lifts them for good.
Tabs that lift freely by hand along the rakes, the ridge and the windward slope, with dirt or debris under them where the adhesive strip should be.
A horizontal crease across the tab where it folded back in a gust. The mat is fractured even when the granules look intact.
The cap course takes the most direct wind load on a roof and is often the first thing to shift.
Bent step flashing, lifted drip edge and split rubber collars are how wind-driven rain gets under a roof that still looks whole.
A limb that struck the roof and rolled off can fracture decking under undisturbed shingles. Beryl put a tree on a Cinco Ranch house; smaller strikes are much more common.
Round bruises, granule displacement and exposed mat, usually clearest on the slopes facing the storm. See the dated storm record.
On May 16, 2024 a derecho crossed the Houston metro with estimated gusts near 100 mph downtown, according to the National Weather Service, and two EF1 tornadoes touched down in southern Cypress next door. Eight weeks later, on July 8, Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda as a Category 1 storm. In the Katy area, Covering Katy News documented a tree on a Cinco Ranch home, roof damage, and street flooding at more than eight locations in the City of Katy. Those wind figures are metro-wide numbers and are quoted here as metro numbers; this page quotes no gust speed for any specific Katy address. The full sequence, with what each event did, is on the storm history page.
This site does not file, negotiate, adjust or settle insurance claims. Texas law bars a contractor from advertising to adjust a claim on a property the contractor is also working on, so none does here. The contractor's part is a written description of what the roof needs. Whether a roof is covered, and on what basis, is a conversation between the homeowner, the agent and the carrier.
One practical point sits on the homeowner's side of that line: policies commonly set a deadline for reporting storm damage, and photographs taken before any repair are worth having. Read the policy or ask the agent. This site cannot tell you what yours says.
As soon as it is safe to get on the roof or into the attic. Unsealed tabs and displaced flashing worsen with every ordinary rain, and photographs taken before repairs are worth having whatever happens next.
Yes. Roof age has little to do with a broken shingle seal or a bent flashing. Both derecho and Beryl damage were found on roofs well under warranty age.
No. This site does not file, negotiate, adjust or settle claims. That question belongs to the homeowner, the agent and the carrier.
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