Roofing Contractor Kaufman TX

We will start with the honest part, because it is the part that should decide who you hire. Kaufman is not a heavy hail market. Since 2010 the National Weather Service has logged 17 hail reports within five miles of town, exactly one of them two inches or larger. Highland Village, up in Denton County, logged 90 over the same period with seventeen at two inches or more. If a roofer knocks on your door in Kaufman and tells you the whole county got hammered, ask him which storm and what date. There are not many to choose from.

The ones that exist are worth knowing. On May 24, 2011 the fire department reported baseball-sized hail about a mile north of Kaufman, three quarters of a mile from the center of town, with golf-ball hail five miles west and an estimated 70 mph gust at Highway 243 and Highway 175 an hour later. On April 20, 2023 a social media photo showed a 3.5-inch stone two miles north of Crandall, with tennis-ball hail in Crandall and ping-pong-ball hail a mile east-northeast of Kaufman. On April 27, 2015 an NWS storm survey attributed tree damage in Kaufman and damage to a metal building along US Highway 175 southeast of town to a suspected downburst with estimated 75 mph winds.

The event that actually took roofs off came on May 28, 2024, when an overnight bow echo swept out of the Red River country and down across this part of Texas. Broadcast media reported that part of the roof was torn off a house on County Road 103 between Kaufman and Abner. An NWS survey in Talty found large split trees and many downed branches in the Lost Creek Estates neighborhood, with trees, roofs and fences damaged elsewhere around town and winds determined up to 85 mph. Near the Terrell airport a large Madix warehouse had one side blown in and its roof partially collapsed. Two RVs were flipped at an RV park between Crandall and Kaufman.

One thing to know about numbers quoted for Kaufman: every single thunderstorm wind record within ten miles of this city is an estimate, not an instrument measurement. There is no measured gust on file. That matters when a claim turns on what wind speed your roof actually saw, and it is a reason to document damage carefully at the time of loss rather than relying on a weather report later.

The housing is where Kaufman gets genuinely interesting, and it is nothing like the fast-growing towns north of Dallas. Of 2,762 housing units, 60.9 percent were built before 1980 and 6.5 percent date to 1939 or earlier. Median year built is 1976 and median home value is $221,800. The 1990s were nearly a construction dead zone here: 74 units in the entire decade. And Kaufman is majority renter — 53.3 percent of occupied homes are rented, against 92 percent owner-occupied up in Highland Village. So a large share of the roofing decisions in this town are made by landlords on houses built before most modern shingle standards existed, with plank decking, previous layers, and framing sized for a different era. We open a corner and look before we put a number on paper.

Kaufman's code changed recently. The city adopted the 2021 International Residential Code by Ordinance O-07-26 on March 23, 2026, moving up from 2015, with the North Central Texas Council of Governments regional amendments. Design wind is 115 mph three-second gust, ground snow load 5 pounds per square foot, and ice barrier underlayment is not required — figures that did not change between the two code cycles.

One local provision is genuinely different from the towns to the north. The NCTCOG text Kaufman adopted conditions the roof-class requirement: Class A, B or C roofing is required in areas designated by law as requiring their use, or when the edge of the roof is less than three feet from a lot line. Flower Mound and Highland Village require classified roofing outright with no condition attached. Practically every architectural shingle sold here is Class A anyway, but the legal floor in Kaufman is narrower than its neighbors'.

The permitting is the friendliest we have found anywhere. A residential roof permit is $80, and unlike most cities Kaufman explicitly lists roof repair as well as replacement as permitted work, so there is no guessing about where the line sits. Reinspection is another $80. Contractor registration costs nothing at all — the city runs registration through MyGov with no fees, and roofing is its own named registration category rather than being folded under general contractor. The inspection request cutoff for next business day is 3 pm, and paying a permit fee by credit card adds a 3 percent surcharge. Note also that the fee schedule applies inside the city limits and in the ETJ, which is unusual and worth knowing if your address is just outside the line.

A caution about doing your own research here. The city's codified ordinance and its Building Safety page both say the 2021 codes are in force, but the amendment exhibits still hosted on the city's own document center are the superseded 2015 set from the prior ordinance, with the old ordinance number printed in every page footer. A contractor who downloads the amendments from the city website is reading a code cycle that was replaced in March 2026. We work from the current ordinance and confirm anything that matters with Development Services at 972-932-2216.