Half the city was built in twenty years, and every one of those roofs has now taken five hail events. Burleson’s second-roof wave is happening right now.
At 9:18 on the evening of June 12, 2023, a four-inch hailstone fell inside Burleson — 1.19 miles from the center of town, with $500,000 in damage logged against it. The federal record is terse: “A social media photo showed a 4-inch diameter hail stone in Burleson.” Four minutes earlier, tennis-ball hail was reported on Highway 174 between Joshua and Burleson. Grapefruit size, in town, on a Monday night.
Burleson has 68 distinct hail days on record since 2000, sixteen of them producing golfball or larger. The season here is tight: March through June accounts for 88% of every hail day in the city’s record, and April alone is a third of them. If you are going to inspect a roof once a year in Burleson, do it in July.
The housing math is the clearest of any city we serve. Half of Burleson — 9,685 homes, 50.4% of everything standing — was built in the two decades between 2000 and 2019. The 2000-2009 cohort alone is 5,145 homes, better than a quarter of the city, and the population numbers say exactly the same thing: Burleson went from 20,976 people in 2000 to 36,690 in 2010, a 75% increase in ten years. Those homes went up with builder-grade shingles and have now sat through the 2008, 2012, 2016, 2023 and 2025 hail events. Burleson’s second-roof wave is not coming. It is here.
Only 8.8% of the city predates 1970, which makes Burleson almost the opposite of a place like Ennis. We are rarely dealing with plank decking here. We are dealing with twenty-year-old architectural shingle that has been beaten on for two decades.
There is a wrinkle worth knowing before you call anyone. Burleson’s own Permit Information page lists roughly forty project types requiring a permit — decks, fences, driveways, window replacements, water heaters — and roofing is not on the list. That page also says, in the city’s words, “This is not an all-inclusive list.” The adopted 2021 IRC that actually governs does not exempt roof covering work from permitting, and Burleson amended the exemption list to remove things rather than add them. Our read is that a re-roof needs a permit here, the city handout simply has a gap, and we confirm it with Building Permits and Inspections at 817-426-9632 on every job rather than relying on either document alone.
The rule that surprises homeowners most is about the debris. Burleson Code Section 82-89(e)(1) expressly excludes roofing materials from city collection, and says so plainly: such trash “shall be removed by the owner, contractor or representative, or occupant of the building at the owner’s expense.” The city will not haul your tear-off, and that is an ordinance, not a service limitation. It belongs in whatever number you are comparing bids on.
One more thing, because it comes up in every hail season: Texas Government Code Chapter 3000, passed in 2019, bars a city from prohibiting or limiting a building material that a recent national model code approves, or from setting a stricter standard than that code. Outside a handful of historic-designation exceptions, no city around here can tell you that you may not use a code-approved shingle. If someone says Burleson will not allow a product, that is a sales position rather than a legal one.
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Burleson’s public permit list does not mention roofing, but the adopted 2021 IRC does not exempt it and the city amended R105.2 to delete exemptions rather than add them. The city’s own page calls itself “not an all-inclusive list.” We confirm with Building Permits and Inspections on every job. We will also not quote you a permit fee we cannot source — Burleson’s fees are set by council resolution and are not published anywhere we could reach.
Burleson wrote its own re-inspection fee section, R108.7, into the adopted code. It triggers when the inspection is not ready, when the building address is not clearly posted, when work is inaccessible, when the same item is corrected twice, or when violations exist on the property — including failure to maintain trash control. A yard full of loose shingles is a billable event here. We post the address, tarp the ground, and sweep magnets daily.
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Almost certainly yes, though the city’s documents disagree with each other and we would rather explain that than pretend. The Permit Information page lists around forty project types and roofing is not among them, but the same page states it is not an all-inclusive list. The adopted 2021 International Residential Code does not exempt roof covering work, and Burleson amended the exemption section to delete exemptions for accessory structures, fences and window awnings rather than to add one for roofing. We confirm with the department at 817-426-9632 before starting.
We do not know, and we will not invent a figure. Burleson sets permit fees by city council resolution rather than in the codified ordinances, so the schedule is not in the online code and is not published on the building department page. Call 817-426-9632 or check the eTRAKiT portal. Anyone quoting you a specific Burleson re-roof permit fee off a website is guessing.
No. Burleson requires registration for electricians, mechanical, plumbing, irrigation, backflow testers and fire prevention contractors. Roofing is not on the list, so there is no city registration, no roofing bond and no city-set insurance minimum here. That is a real contrast with White Settlement, twenty minutes north, which charges roofers $100 a year and requires $100,000 in liability coverage with the city named. In Burleson the burden of checking insurance falls on you, so ask to see the certificate itself.
Burleson’s adopted table sets a 115 mph 3-second gust design wind, with no special wind region and no windborne debris zone. That last point matters: there is no code-driven requirement for impact-rated or missile-tested roof assemblies here the way there is on the Texas coast. Impact-rated shingles can be a sound choice in a city with sixteen golfball-plus hail days since 2000, and many insurers discount for them — but that is an insurance and economics decision, not a code mandate, and we will present it that way.
Not as a code requirement. Burleson’s adopted Table R301.2(1) lists ice barrier underlayment as not required, with a 22-degree winter design temperature. It has real value in valleys and around penetrations and we are happy to include it there. What we will not do is put it across your eaves and tell you the inspector requires it, because that is not true in this city.
We do, and the city code is the reason. Section 82-89(e)(1) excludes roofing materials, building materials and similar debris from city collection and assigns removal to the owner or contractor at the owner’s expense. Private roll-off service is available — haulers pay the city 8% of gross receipts under Section 82-97(a) — and it is not an exclusive franchise as far as the ordinance text goes, so there is no single mandated provider the way there is in Mansfield.
Burleson handles this by decibel level and time of day rather than a blanket construction-hours window, with the quiet period running from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. in residential districts. We found a 2025 draft amendment tightening the specifics, but it carried no ordinance number and we could not confirm it was adopted, so we are not going to publish decibel figures as though they are settled law. In practice we do not start noisy work before seven and we tell your neighbors the day before.
Not for the roof. Burleson adopts one set of codes and one set of design values citywide with no county variation, and we found nothing in the building code that changes by county portion. It matters for your appraisal district — Johnson CAD versus Tarrant Appraisal District — and the two halves of the city are genuinely different in character. The Tarrant side is more owner-occupied at 82% and carries a higher median value; the Johnson side is where all the new construction is going. In the most recent census vintage, the Tarrant County portion recorded zero housing units built in 2020 or later.
Very rarely. Texas Government Code Chapter 3000, enacted in 2019, prohibits a governmental entity from banning or limiting a building material approved by a national model code published within the last three cycles, or from imposing a stricter standard than that code. The exceptions are mostly historic designations — a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, a National Register listing or district, and similar. So in Burleson, “the city will not let you use that” is almost always wrong.
Yes, and you are in the largest group in the city. Better than a quarter of Burleson was built between 2000 and 2009, and those roofs have now absorbed the 2008, 2012, 2016, 2023 and 2025 hail events. Hail damage on an architectural shingle frequently does not read from the driveway — the granule loss and mat bruising that shorten its life by years are visible on the roof and in photographs, not from the street. We will get up there, photograph what is actually there, and tell you plainly if the answer is that you have three more years. That inspection does not cost you anything.
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