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7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., every day, under Ordinance 10598 adopted in February 2025. Before that Midland had no construction-hours chapter at all, so this is genuinely new. To work outside those hours within 600 feet of an occupied residence you need a permit filed five business days in advance along with notice to the neighbours. That lead time matters after a storm and we account for it up front.

The 2018 International Residential Code, adopted by Ordinance 9925 effective July 1, 2019. The Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission does not run a building-code programme, so unlike Dallas-Fort Worth there is no regional amendment package here — Midland writes its own amendments and we read them all. None touches the roofing chapter, so IRC Chapter 9 applies as published, including the layer and tear-off rules.

115 mph, the same figure Dallas-Fort Worth uses on the 2021 cycle, with a 3.5 psf ground snow load, seismic category A, and ice barrier underlayment not required. Worth noting that a design figure and an observed figure are different things: Midland's adopted design speed is 115 mph while the airport has measured an actual gust of 111.6 mph. The code number is the engineering basis, not a ceiling on what the weather does.

We could not find a published roofing line item in the city's fee schedule, so we are not going to quote a figure. We confirm the fee with Building Inspection when we pull your permit. That is the honest position for all three Permian Basin cities — none of them publishes a roofing-specific fee.

May, not April. Midland records 94 distinct hail days since 2000 with May as the clear peak, and June outranks April. That is consistent across West Texas — Odessa, San Angelo, Abilene and Lubbock all peak in May. Advice written for Dallas will have you inspecting a month early and stopping a month too soon.

Less than you would expect. Midland County logs 42 non-thunderstorm high wind events since 2000, against seven in Dallas County. Those are clear-sky days when 60 to 70 mph wind loads the roof with no storm involved, concentrated in late winter and spring. It is a cumulative loading problem rather than a single-event problem, and it is why fastening and edge detail matter more here than shingle class.

Less than the West Texas reputation suggests, and we would rather be accurate than dramatic. Midland County logs four dust storm events in this period against Lubbock County's nineteen. The haboob story genuinely belongs to Lubbock and the Panhandle. Windborne grit is a real if minor exposure here; what we will not do is attach a service-life number to it, because nobody has published one worth trusting.

More than a North Texas page would suggest. Midland County logs five distinct ice storm days in this period — the same count as Dallas County — with one to two inches of accumulation in the record. The code does not require ice barrier underlayment here, and we will not sell it as a code requirement. It does affect scheduling, though: we will not leave a tear-off dried in overnight ahead of an ice event.

Possibly, and you are in a large group — 23.8% of Midland's housing was built in the 2010s. A builder-grade roof from that decade is now ten to fifteen years old and has been through a string of May hail seasons and repeated high-wind days. Frequently the shingle field still looks fine from the ground while the edges and fasteners have been worked loose. We get on it, photograph what is there, and tell you honestly if you have years left.

Not for roofing. Odessa's median home was built in 1980 against Midland's 1989, and Odessa's single largest decade is the 1950s at 21.2% of current stock — more than its entire output from 1990 through 2009 combined. Midland has the shale-decade cohort that Odessa's numbers do not show as strongly. Both cities peak for hail in May, both are on the 2018 IRC, and neither amends the roofing chapter, but the houses are a decade apart in character.