Kleberg County
Most people in Kingsville don't think of themselves as living on the coast. The beach is a half-hour away and the town feels like ranch country.
But Kleberg County is a Texas Department of Insurance designated catastrophe area — all of it, Kingsville included. If you carry windstorm coverage here, your roof needs a WPI-8 certificate from a TDI inspection, and it has to be built to the wind speed your specific address falls under.
Protex Roofing works the whole county out of our shop in Flour Bluff. We're firefighter-owned, and we build to the zone your house actually sits in — not the one that's easiest.
Kleberg County Has Three Different Wind Zones
This is the part that catches people out. TDI doesn't treat the county as one place. It's split, and the required design wind speed changes depending on where you are:
- Kingsville, Ricardo, Riviera, Caesar — the inland zone, lowest required design wind speed in the county
- NAS Kingsville, Loyola Beach, Riviera Beach, Vattmannville — a step up, closer to the bay
- Padre Island National Seashore side — the seaward zone, strictest requirements
What changes between zones isn't cosmetic. It's fastening schedules, edge metal, and what the inspector will and won't sign off on. A roof built to Kingsville's requirement and installed out at Riviera Beach can fail inspection — and a roof that fails inspection doesn't get a certificate.
We check the zone before we quote. It affects the price, so you should know it before you compare bids.
Buying or Selling a Home Near NAS Kingsville?
Between the air station and Texas A&M–Kingsville, a lot of Kleberg County property changes hands on a schedule somebody else set — PCS orders, a semester ending, a closing date that can't move.
Roof condition holds up closings. If you're selling, an inspection now beats a surprise during the option period. If you're buying, we'll tell you what you're actually inheriting and roughly what it'll cost, before you're committed. And if there's an existing WPI-8 on the property, we'll help you figure out whether it transfers or whether the roof needs recertification.
We work around closing dates. Call early and we'll usually make it fit.
What Communities Do We Serve?
- Kingsville
- NAS Kingsville
- Ricardo
- Riviera
- Riviera Beach
- Loyola Beach
- Vattmann
- Vattmannville
- Caesar
- Baffin Bay area
Services Offered in Kleberg County
- Residential roof replacement — asphalt shingle, metal, and tile
- Windstorm-compliant installation with full documentation for WPI-8 certification
- Commercial and low-slope roofing — TPO, modified bitumen, and coatings
- Storm and hail damage restoration
- Roof repair and leak diagnosis
- Pre-sale and pre-purchase roof inspections
- Insurance claim assistance — documentation, adjuster meetings, and code-compliant repairs
- Siding
Bay-Front Homes Take a Different Beating
Loyola Beach, Riviera Beach and the properties along Baffin Bay sit in constant wind off open water. Uplift at the edges and corners is what gets them — a roof doesn't usually fail in the middle of the field, it starts peeling at a rake or an eave where the fastening was marginal.
That's exactly what the higher wind zone requirements are meant to prevent, and exactly what a crew unfamiliar with coastal work tends to shortcut.
Free Roof Inspection in Kleberg County
No cost, no pressure, no sales pitch. We'll tell you which wind zone you're in, photograph what we find, and give you a straight answer on whether you need a roof.
Call or text 361-400-7663, or request an inspection online.