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Beaumont is 113,279 people by DataUSA's 2024 count, roughly flat since 2000, in a housing stock that grew in waves after Spindletop in 1901, after the refineries, and after each hurricane since. Every address in the city is in Jefferson County and inside the windstorm certificate rule. What differs from district to district is the age of the house under the roof.
Houses of a hundred years and more between 1st and 11th Streets, on piers, with plank decking and wood siding. The City calls the Oaks the largest historic district in Texas, and its page says exterior work including roofing and siding needs a Certificate of Appropriateness, some of it approved by Planning staff and larger changes by the Historic Landmark Commission, which meets monthly. That is a second review on top of the windstorm inspection, and the contractor should know both.
Brick and wood houses of the 1920s through 1950s along and off Calder. Composition roofs on their third or fourth generation; original wood siding still common; porch roofs added and re-added. The leak page was written with these houses in mind.
Postwar refinery-era streets: single-story frame houses on piers, many re-sided in vinyl after Rita or Laura, many still in wood. Repair-heavy, replacement when the storm or the inspector says so. The vinyl page is honest about why it is here.
The newer part of the city: brick veneer on slab from the 1970s onward, larger roofs, attics that run hot. Replacement to the windstorm specification is the usual job, and metal is increasingly the choice on the second replacement.
Jefferson County is on TWIA's list of fourteen first-tier coastal counties and inside TDI's designated catastrophe area. TDI's program page says repairs to existing structures, “including re-roofs or roof repairs,” in that area “must be constructed and inspected according to the building specifications adopted by TDI” to qualify for TWIA coverage. The contractor builds to the specification; a TDI-appointed inspector or a Texas-licensed engineer inspects; TDI issues the WPI-8. The certificate page has all of it, quoted.
On permits: the City of Beaumont has a Building Codes division and an online permit portal, and the contractor doing the work confirms what a given address needs and pulls whatever applies. This site does not quote the City's permit rules because they were not read from the City's page for this build; the contractor does that for the specific job.
Rita's peak gust at the Beaumont airport was 91 knots on September 24, 2005, by the NWS post-storm report. Harvey took the city's water supply on August 31, 2017 when the Neches River pump station flooded. Imelda closed Interstate 10 west of the city for two and a half days in September 2019. Laura's gust at the airport was 64 knots on August 27, 2020. Each is dated with its source on the storm record, and each is a reason a Beaumont roof is younger than its house and older than it should be.
Say which, roughly when the house was built, and what you are seeing. A Beaumont contractor who builds to the windstorm specification calls back.
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