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Cedar Crest Roofing is a DFW contractor serving Palmer: residential and commercial, replacement through repair, with storm restoration handled the documented, legal way. Free inspections with written findings, and honest advice about what your roof actually needs.
Palmer roofs live a harder life than most: DFW hail seasons, straight-line winds, and eleven months a year of Texas sun. Cedar Crest Roofing runs the full range here, covering residential replacement, repair, storm restoration with proper documentation, free inspections, and commercial systems from membranes to metal.
Every service we offer has a Palmer-specific page below, and every job runs the same way: written findings, honest repair-versus-replace advice, permits handled where Palmer requires them, and no door-knocker pressure, ever.
Roofing in Palmer, specifically
Working Palmer roofs year-round teaches you what the market here actually looks like. Palmer sits in the metroplex’s Ellis County ring, where the roofing inventory reads differently than the inner suburbs: more acreage and semi-rural properties, more metal roofing on homes as well as shops and outbuildings, and building departments whose permit requirements are often lighter than the big-city versions but still worth knowing cold. Crews route here on scheduled windows rather than same-hour dispatch, storm response covers structures the inner-ring never thinks about (barns, shops, carports), and the free inspection covers all of it in one documented visit.
Our crews work Palmer alongside Waxahachie, Ennis and Midlothian, so scheduling draws on the whole nearby footprint rather than a single route.
PUBLIC RECORD
Palmer roofs, by the public record
Two public records shape nearly every roofing decision in Palmer: how often damaging hail falls here, and how old the homes are.
6
Hail days, 1 in.+ since 2006
2
Golf-ball-size hail days
2 in.
Largest stone on record
1989
Median year homes built
Hail near Palmer
Reported hail is less frequent around Palmer: NOAA lists 6 days since 2006 with hail one inch or larger within 4 miles. Fewer reports can also reflect fewer storm spotters in smaller communities, so a quiet record is not a guarantee. Hail that size was reported in 4 of the last 20 years. The largest stones on record nearby measured 2 inches (hen egg size) on May 27, 2024.
- May 27, 2024: 2-inch hail (hen egg size)
- April 26, 2011: 1.75-inch hail (golf ball size)
- June 9, 2019: 1.5-inch hail (walnut size)
- May 17, 2010: 1.5-inch hail (walnut size)
- October 23, 2011: 1-inch hail (quarter size)
How old Palmer homes are
The median home in Palmer was built in 1989, and 33% of the city's 848 housing units predate 1980. Many of these houses are likely on their second roof or nearing the point where they need one.
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database (hail reports since 2006 within 4 miles of Palmer); U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates. Data pulled September 2026.
