People ask whether Ellis County is really hail country or whether that is just something roofers say. Four years of storm reports settle it plainly enough. Here are the numbers, the storms behind them, and what they mean for whether hail damage repair is something a Midlothian roof is likely to need.
The headline numbers
Over the last four years Ellis County logged 17 separate hail days and 80 hail reports. Seventy two of those reports were stones an inch across or larger. The biggest came down on June 14, 2023, a hair under four inches across. The strongest wind on the same four years of record is 85 mph.
Those are counts of reported hail, which means they run low. Hail that falls on pasture at two in the morning with nobody awake to call it in never makes the list. Seventeen days is the floor, not the ceiling.
The events that stand out
Four years of reports come down to a handful of days that actually did something. Two of the biggest sit near Red Oak, one landed inside Midlothian itself, and two of them were not hail at all.
That last part is worth sitting with. Hail damages the covering; an 85 mph afternoon and a tornado at the 287 junction test whether the covering is fastened to the house, which is a different question about the same roof. Here is how those four years look, one day at a time.
| Date | Event | Where |
|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2025 | Hail, 1.00 in | Inside Midlothian |
| May 16, 2025 | Hail, 2.00 in | Mountain Peak and Garrett |
| March 8, 2025 | Straight-line wind, 85 mph | Sonoma, then Waxahachie and Ennis |
| September 24, 2023 | Hail, 2.25 in | Near Red Oak |
| June 14, 2023 | Hail, 3.75 in, the largest on the record | Ellis County |
| June 13, 2023 | Hail, 2.50 in | Near Red Oak |
| April 4, 2022 | Tornado, EF-0 to EF-1 | Business 287 at US 67 |
How Midlothian compares to the rest of the metro
Ellis County runs at roughly half the hail days Tarrant County does, and that is worth saying in both directions. This is not the worst hail corridor in North Texas, and anyone telling you Midlothian is under constant bombardment is selling something. It is also not mild. Seventeen days in four years, with 72 stones an inch or larger, is a genuine pattern.
The practical difference between here and the harder hit side of the metro is not whether hail comes. It is how many years pass between the storms big enough to matter, which changes how long a roof lasts here rather than whether it gets hit at all.
What the record means for an actual roof
A stone between two and three and three quarter inches usually does not punch a hole. It fractures the mat under the granules, and the granules stay put and keep looking fine. That is why hail damage is so often invisible from the ground and obvious from a ladder, and why a roof can look untouched for two years and then start leaking with no new storm to blame.
If a roof is due for replacement anyway, the impact rated tier is the practical answer here. Class 4 is the highest impact rating a shingle can carry, and it is earned in a lab by dropping steel at it rather than on a brochure. It costs more up front. In a county with this record it tends to earn that back, and some carriers discount the premium for an impact rated roof, which is a question to put to yours directly.
Midlothian Roofing Co keeps the county's storm dates on hand for a reason: when somebody calls about a roof, the first useful question is usually which storm it was standing under. If you think one of these days caught your house, the hail damage guide walks through what to look for and what happens next. If the damage is fresh and you can already see it from the ground, do not sit on it. Give us a call and say what the roof looks like.
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