How coverage works across greater Houston
Searching for roofing near Houston turns up companies from all over the region. The line works the other way round: you call one number, say where you are, and the call goes to an independent roofing company that takes jobs in your area.
There is no office in any of these towns, no crew and no truck. Houston Expert Roofers answers the phone and passes the call on. The roofing company you reach decides whether it can come out and when, and it quotes and does the work.
The paperwork is the part that differs between towns. Some cities permit and inspect a re-roof, some only when the decking is replaced, and unincorporated county areas have no city permit office at all, so the county's rules apply. Along the coast, the state windstorm program adds an inspection of its own. Each town page below explains its own rules, with sources.
Harris County
The City of Houston, including Kingwood, permits re-roofs. Around it are smaller cities with their own rules and large unincorporated communities such as Cypress, Spring, Atascocita and Channelview, where there is no city permit office and the Harris County Engineer lists no separate re-roof permit.
Roofing in Cypress
Unincorporated northwest Harris County with no city building department, so the contract and photos are your record of the work.
Roofing in Spring
Older neighborhoods north of FM 1960 where a former shake roof can mean a new solid deck before shingles go on.
Roofing in Pasadena
Older housing near the Ship Channel, and a strip east of State Highway 146 that sits in the coastal windstorm area.
Roofing in Humble
A small city inside a large mailing address near Lake Houston, where permit rules depend on which side of the city line you live on.
Roofing in Kingwood
Part of the City of Houston since 1996, so re-roofs need a Houston permit as well as village association approval.
Roofing in Tomball
A railroad town with acreage around it: city roofing permits inside the limits, and houses with metal-roofed barns outside them.
Roofing in Atascocita
An unincorporated community on the west shore of Lake Houston with a Humble mailing address and master-planned neighborhoods.
Roofing in Webster
A small Clear Lake area city near NASA's Johnson Space Center, inside Harris County and close to the bay.
Roofing in La Porte
A bayfront city in Harris County whose area east of State Highway 146 is in the coastal catastrophe area, with Sylvan Beach and older homes near the water.
Roofing in Seabrook
A small waterfront city on Galveston Bay and Clear Lake, partly inside the coastal windstorm area east of State Highway 146, with surge history from Hurricane Ike.
Roofing in Deer Park
A Harris County city by the Houston Ship Channel with a large stock of homes from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Roofing in Channelview
An unincorporated community on the San Jacinto River and the Ship Channel, east of Houston, with older and newer housing side by side.
Fort Bend and Waller counties
Southwest of Houston, master-planned communities with homeowner associations sit next to small cities that run their own permit offices. Katy spans three counties.
Roofing in Katy
A small city and a much bigger mailing address: permits inside city limits, HOA reviews in the master-planned communities, and roofs from the 2000s boom coming due.
Roofing in Sugar Land
A city that permits and inspects roof replacements, including in Greatwood and New Territory since annexation, with HOA approval first.
Roofing in Missouri City
Its own permit division, older homes around Quail Valley and newer, more complex rooflines in Sienna.
Roofing in Richmond
The historic county seat on the Brazos, surrounded by large unincorporated communities with a Richmond address.
Roofing in Rosenberg
A Fort Bend city on the Brazos with older homes near downtown and new subdivisions along the Grand Parkway area.
Roofing in Stafford
A small Fort Bend County city between Sugar Land and Missouri City with its own building permits.
Montgomery County
North of Houston the land turns to pine forest. Trees shade and soak roofs, drop needles into valleys and bring limbs down in storms. The Woodlands runs on covenants rather than city permits.
Roofing in The Woodlands
Township covenants require approval before a roof replacement, and the forest canopy keeps shaded roofs damp.
Roofing in Conroe
Pine country north of Houston where the city's re-roof permit rule turns on the decking, and limbs and needles wear roofs down.
Roofing in Magnolia
Wooded acreage and fast-growing subdivisions in west Montgomery County, under tall pines.
Brazoria, Galveston and Chambers counties: the windstorm towns
These counties are in the Texas Department of Insurance's designated catastrophe area, along with the bayside parts of five Harris County cities east of State Highway 146. Pearland, Friendswood and Baytown cross county lines, and only their parts in Brazoria, Galveston or Chambers County are in the catastrophe area; Baytown is not on the state's list of Harris County windstorm cities. A roofer working in the catastrophe area must build most roof work to the windstorm code and have it inspected while it is visible.
Roofing in Pearland
Mostly in Brazoria County, a coastal windstorm county, so a re-roof there may need a TDI inspection for TWIA eligibility.
Roofing in League City
Galveston County is in the TDI catastrophe area: city permit, HOA approval and a windstorm inspection on a new roof.
Roofing in Friendswood
Mostly in Galveston County, so a new roof on that side needs the TDI windstorm inspection and certificate.
Roofing in Baytown
A city split between Harris County and Chambers County, which is a coastal windstorm county, on Galveston Bay.
Roofing in Galveston
The island city, where salt air, hurricanes and the TDI windstorm program shape every roof decision.
Roofing in Alvin
A Brazoria County city south of Pearland, inside the TDI coastal windstorm area.
Roofing in Texas City
A Galveston County city on the bay behind its hurricane levee, inside the TDI windstorm catastrophe area.
Coastal windstorm rules. In the Texas Department of Insurance's designated catastrophe area (Brazoria, Chambers, Galveston and the other first-tier coastal counties, plus, in Harris County, Morgan's Point and the parts of La Porte, Pasadena, Seabrook and Shoreacres inside city limits and east of State Highway 146), most roof work must meet the windstorm building code and be inspected while it is under way (TDI exempts repairs to less than 100 square feet of roof covering that do not touch the decking). When it passes, TDI issues a certificate of compliance (form WPI-8), which the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association uses to decide whether it can insure the home. Ask the roofer, in writing, who schedules the inspection and when you will get the WPI-8.
What to ask, wherever you live
- Is my address inside city limits, and does this job need a permit? Will you pull it in your name?
- Is my home in the windstorm catastrophe area, and will you schedule the inspection and get me the WPI-8?
- Does my HOA or deed restriction need to approve the shingle and color first?
- Can you send me your certificate of liability insurance and a few addresses of roofs near me?
Texas has no state roofing license. No state agency licenses roofing contractors in Texas, and a 2025 bill to create one (HB 3344) did not reach a vote of the full House before the session ended. So check what you can: a certificate of liability insurance sent to you, a written contract with the full scope, a permit where your city requires one, local addresses you can drive past, and the shingle maker's warranty registration. Some cities also ask roofers to register. The line does not check any of this for you. How to check a roofer before you hire.
- Call the numberAn automated assistant answers (832) 662-4107 at any hour and asks which service you need, since the line also takes heating, cooling, pressure washing and water damage calls.
- Describe the roofA leak, missing shingles, hail, a limb on the roof or an old roof you want looked at, plus your part of greater Houston and how urgent it is.
- Get put throughYour call is transferred to an independent, locally owned roofing company, which hears a short summary before it picks up.
- Deal with the roofer directlyIt inspects, quotes and does the work, and you pay it (or your insurer does, as you arrange). If it misses the call, it gets your name, number, city and need to call you back.
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