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Effectively yes, and it is unusual. Section 4.04.033 of the city code sets a trigger at 50% of the roof area within any twelve-month period. Repair work crossing that threshold within a year is treated as a replacement. It matters for anyone nursing an older roof through successive repairs, because the third or fourth patch can quietly change the nature of the job. We keep track of the cumulative area when we do repeat work on the same roof.

Not an untreated one. Section 4.04.033 prohibits untreated wood shakes outright. That provision sits outside the IRC amendments, in the city's own roofing ordinance, which is why it is easy to miss if you only read the adopted code. If you are restoring a house that currently has shake, this is a conversation to have before you commit to matching it.

The 2021 International Residential Code, adopted by Ordinance 2023-017 on February 7, 2023 — a full cycle ahead of Midland and Odessa, which remain on 2018. The Concho Valley Council of Governments does not run a building-code programme, so San Angelo writes its own amendments rather than adopting a regional package. We read them all: none touches IRC Chapter 9, so the roofing chapter applies as published.

San Angelo publishes both conventions: 90 mph nominal and 115 mph ultimate. They describe the same requirement expressed the two different ways the code has used over the years, so the 115 mph ultimate figure is the one that matches how Dallas-area cities state theirs. Ground snow load is 5 psf, the air freezing index is 50, and ice barrier underlayment is not required.

Yes, and San Angelo goes further than most: Section 4.03.038(1) requires the Registered Contractor number to appear on all advertising intended to solicit business, in print, video, audio or any other medium. That reaches websites, truck lettering and yard signs. It is a genuinely unusual provision and it makes verification easy — ask any roofer bidding your San Angelo job for their registration number, and check it against the city. That includes us.

More than anywhere else in this part of Texas — 116 distinct hail days since 2000, against Odessa's 97 and Midland's 94. The peak month is May with 40 hail days in that month alone, not April as in the Metroplex. That makes early summer the right time for an inspection here, after the main season has run.

Yes, and this city carries the two costliest tornadoes in the region — $7.5 million in 2019 and $6.0 million in 2008. Both National Weather Service surveys describe roofs being removed. That is a different profile from Midland and Odessa, whose damage records are dominated by hail and straight-line wind rather than by tornado events of that scale.

No, and we would rather correct that than lean on a regional stereotype. Tom Green County logs eleven non-thunderstorm high wind events over this period against Lubbock County's 124, and two dust storms against Lubbock's nineteen. Eleven is barely above Dallas County's seven. San Angelo is a hail city with real tornado history — the West Texas wind-and-dust story belongs to Lubbock and the Panhandle.

San Angelo publishes no roofing line item that we could find, so we will not quote a figure — the same position as Midland and Odessa. We confirm the fee with the city when we pull your permit. We also could not verify San Angelo's construction work hours or its debris and roll-off rules from a primary source, so we establish those per job rather than assuming they match a neighbouring city.

You are close to San Angelo's median year built of 1978, and 80.5% of this city predates 2000. Unlike Midland, San Angelo saw no shale-boom building wave — only 9.5% of its housing went up in the 2010s. So very little of this city is on a first roof. What we look at before quoting is the decking and the ventilation, because a house that has been through three coverings carries accumulated fastener damage and an air-flow design that predates anyone worrying about shingle temperature.