Roofing in Texas is a weather trade with more than one weather. Heat bakes asphalt until granules slide and the mat goes brittle. Hail inland leaves bruises you can feel with a hand even when the tabs still look orderly from the street. Hurricane wind on the coast lifts edges, peels starter courses, and drives rain under the felt. Those are different repairs, and the house only needs the one that matches the sky it actually got.
Start in the attic if you can do it safely. Dark decking, damp insulation, and daylight at a penetration tell you water is already past the shingle. Check pipe boots, valley metal, wall flashing, and the seal around skylights. A soft spot under a slope matters more than a few missing tabs you can see from the driveway.
Hail work is about the mat, not a tidy curb view. Look for bruised spots, cracked blistering, and metal accessories that are dented while nearby surfaces show fresh spatter. Wind work is about what lifted: edges, ridges, and underlayment that let rain run sideways. Heat work is about age, poor attic ventilation, and slopes that have been cooking for years. Naming the cause keeps a patch from being sold where the field is done, or a full slope from being sold where one boot failed.
After a storm, cover what you must to stop active leaking and leave the damaged material where it can be seen. Photograph each slope, the gutters, and any ceiling stain tied to the rain. Tree limbs that fell in a short freeze are a different scar from hail, and ice sitting in a gutter for a night is not a winter of ice dams. Say which one you have. Do not let a cleanup erase the evidence the claim or the repair needs.
Have the address, the rough age of the roof if you know it, and whether the problem is a leak, a storm scar, or a slope that is simply used up. Mention tile, metal, or asphalt so the visit brings the right eyes. Ask how the deck, the flashing, and the ventilation will be handled, not only how the surface will look. Call the number on this page.