Wind Damage Roof Repair in San Antonio and Austin, TX

Wind damage to a roof starts at the edges. A gust gets under the shingles along the eaves, rakes and ridge, breaks the factory seal strip, and then either creases the shingle where it folded back or rips it off. The creased ones fool people. After the storm they lie back down and look fine from the driveway. But the mat is cracked and the seal's broken, so the next storm lifts them again, and water follows. Missing shingles, torn ridge caps and bent flashing are easy enough to spot. Finding the creases takes someone on the roof.

Austin has seen three different kinds of wind damage in three years. On May 28, 2025, a microburst cut a ten-mile damage path from Hyde Park east past the airport, with a 77 mph gust measured at ABIA and more than 30,000 customers left without power. That was straight-line wind, the kind that strips whole slopes facing the gust. The February 2023 ice storm was nearly the reverse: hardly any wind, but ice-loaded live oak limbs coming down through decking all over the city. Then some summers, a Gulf storm's remnants push 40 to 60 mph gusts up I-35 for hours. That wind peels three-tab shingles off older roofs a tab at a time.

San Antonio gets hit too. In June 2025 the National Weather Service warned of 60 mph gusts and quarter-size hail across northwest Bexar County, and on May 9, 2024, a 65 mph gust tore part of a church roof off in San Marcos. Our storm damage roof repair crews work both metros. We set up the Austin line because homeowners in Austin and Round Rock kept needing us the same week our San Antonio customers did.

Plenty of companies get step one wrong, so we'll start there.

1. Walk the roof, not the street. An estimator lifts tabs by hand along every eave, rake, ridge and hip and chalks each creased or unsealed shingle. Wind damage varies by slope, so we check the slopes that took the gust head-on first, then the rest.
2. Tarp if water is getting in. We tarp open roofs to stop the water, strapping a heavy synthetic tarp over the ridge with wood strips screwed into the decking. If a limb's still up there, our crew clears it off the roof first.
3. Replace, don't reseal. A creased shingle is a broken shingle. Some outfits dab roofing cement under it and call it fixed. We won't. Each chalked shingle comes out and a matched Owens Corning or GAF shingle goes in, nailed to spec, seal strip bonded.
4. Check what the wind loosened. Ridge caps, pipe boots, step flashing at walls and chimneys, and drip edge all take a beating in a 70 mph gust. We reset or replace them while the crew's already up there. Cheaper than a second trip after the next storm.
5. Open up wet decking. If shingles were gone long enough for rain to soak the sheathing, that section is cut out and replaced. Putting shingles over soft wood just hides the leak.

If we can't make the roof watertight on the first visit, the job goes to our emergency roof repair crew, and they handle the tarp and the permanent fix as one ticket. As Marco P. wrote in his Google review: "Came out for the estimate Friday, had a guy on site the next day!"

Carriers scope wind damage differently from hail, and that changes your settlement. On a hail damage roof repair claim, the adjuster counts bruises per square across the whole roof. A wind claim counts creased, torn and missing shingles slope by slope, and adjusters often approve the slope that faced the storm and nothing else. You end up with a two-tone roof and a repair that might not match.

That's where a former adjuster earns his keep. Texas-RRR's in-house staff includes former insurance adjusters, backed by 30+ years of insurance claim experience. We photograph every chalk mark, measure the damage on each slope and meet your adjuster on the roof to walk it together. If the first scope comes in light, we write the supplement. All six steps, free estimate through recoverable depreciation, are on our insurance claims page.

Hurricane remnants are their own thing. When Harvey's leftovers came through in 2017, C. Ybarra wrote that "in the middle of helping victims from Hurricane Harvey, their team managed to replace my roof in one day." Gulf storms lose hurricane strength well before they get to Austin or San Antonio, but the outer bands still push hours of 40 to 60 mph gusts that pull older three-tab roofs apart. The claims afterward are wind claims, with the same slope-by-slope fight. Wind hits the rest of the exterior too, and our storm damage inspection documents that for the same claim.

A word of caution. After every big Austin blow, out-of-town crews knock on doors for two weeks and then disappear. Get the tarp on. Then take a day and pick a company based in San Antonio with 2,800+ completed projects. Reach out for a free estimate, or call the Austin line and tell us what blew off.