A covering does not fail on its warranty date. It fails on the weather it has taken, and Parker County hands a roof a particular diet of it.
The exposure this county actually delivers
Weatherford sits far enough west of the metroplex to run its own weather, and the federal record for Parker County, from NOAA and the National Centers for Environmental Information, says what that means in numbers rather than in adjectives. Across 2023 through 2026 the county logged 17 hail days and 75 hail reports, 72 of them an inch or larger, with a largest stone of three inches and a peak wind of 100 mph.
Those are county-wide counts, not a forecast for your street, and hail comes through in narrow lanes rather than across a whole town at once. What they establish is the ceiling a covering here has to survive more than once in its service life.
What that exposure does to asphalt
Architectural asphalt is the default here, and it is the default for good reasons: it is the cheapest covering per square, it repairs in pieces, and a competent install on a sound deck does its job for twenty-five to thirty years.
Hail is what shortens that. An impact does not usually punch through a shingle; it bruises the mat and knocks granules loose, and the bare spot then weathers faster than the shingle around it. One bad afternoon does not end a roof, but it does move the end of the roof closer, and a covering that has taken three or four of them is not the covering its age suggests. The asphalt shingle page covers what the grades change.
What that exposure does to metal
Standing seam runs $1,000 to $1,600 a square installed around here against $450 to $690 for architectural asphalt, so the premium is real and worth stating plainly rather than burying.
What the money buys is service life: forty to seventy years against twenty-five to thirty. Under this county's wind numbers the locked seam matters as much as the metal, because a concealed clip leaves nothing at the edge for a 100 mph gust to lift. Hail is the honest caveat in the other direction: a stone that bruises asphalt can dent a panel, and a dent is cosmetic where a bruise is structural. The metal roofing page sets out how the systems differ.
Putting the two on the same axis
The comparison people usually make is price per square, which is the one comparison that settles nothing. The useful one is cost per year of service under the weather the roof will actually see.
On that axis the gap narrows a long way, because metal spreads its higher number across two to three times the years. Whether it closes completely depends on a question no data can answer for you: how many of those years are yours. A roof you will own for six years and a roof you will own for thirty are different purchases wearing the same name. The cost guide has the ranges either way.
Where the age of the houses complicates it
Half of Weatherford's houses are older than 1982 which means plenty of them are already on a second covering and some are on a third. What sits under the shingles on a house that old decides more than the covering that goes over it, and decking that has been through two tear-offs does not always take a third quietly.
That is the part worth settling before the material question rather than after it, because it changes the number attached to both answers. Ask Weatherford Roofing Co for a look and our roofer settles that one on the roof, with the decking in view, before either number goes on an estimate.
Median year built: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey. Storm figures: NOAA and the National Centers for Environmental Information.