Collinsville Roofing Where Three Waterways Meet
In May 2026 the hail in Collinsville piled up in drifts two and a half feet deep. That is not a figure of speech. It is in the storm survey.
Hail Drifts Two and a Half Feet Deep
On May 8, 2026, the National Weather Service logged hail at Collinsville up to 2.25 inches across, and the survey reads: "Wind-driven hail up to 2.25 inches in diameter damaged homes, vehicles, outbuildings, and trailers. The hail drifts were up to 2.5 feet deep." Of every line in our Oklahoma storm data, that is the one people stop on.
The phrase that matters for a roof is "wind-driven." Hail falling straight down strikes the top of each shingle. Hail driven sideways by wind hits the exposed edges, the vertical faces of ridge caps and hip shingles, siding, window trim and the sides of vents. It does damage that a roof designed for vertical impact was never meant to absorb, and much of it is on the side of the house facing the storm.
The survey lists outbuildings and trailers along with homes: shops, barns, detached garages, sheds, anything with a roof of its own on a Collinsville lot. If your property has more than one roof on it, every one of them was under that storm.
Fifty-Eight Storm Events
Collinsville had 7,898 people at the 2020 Census. Its reporting point logged 58 significant hail and wind events between 2016 and 2026, the third highest count of all eighteen Oklahoma towns we serve, behind only Tulsa and Broken Arrow, both many times its size. A town this small with a record this long is genuinely unusual.
The wind side of that record runs year after year. A 70 knot storm on June 18, 2019. A 65 knot storm on July 11, 2020. Four 65 knot records across June 17 and August 13, 2023, with gusts the survey estimated at 75 miles an hour. Another 65 knot storm on April 29, 2025. The record also holds 27 hail events of an inch or larger, and May 8, 2026 was the biggest of them.
A Collinsville roof does not get many quiet years. The question is rarely whether it has been hit, only how many times and whether anyone has looked since.
A Boom-Era Downtown
The town was settled in 1888 or 1897, depending on the source. Its post office opened on May 26, 1897, under the name Collins, after Dr. A.H. Collins, who moved his post office into town in exchange for the naming honor. It was officially Collinsville by June 1898 and incorporated in April 1899. The Collinsville News started on May 11, 1899, and it is Tulsa County's oldest continuous newspaper.
The next two decades were a building boom: a three-story high school in 1909, a city hall in 1913, and the Carnegie Library in 1917. Collinsville sat in Rogers County at the time and moved to Tulsa County in 1918 to be closer to a county seat. Public buildings from that era tend to be heavy masonry whose roofs have been replaced more than once, and they leak at the joints between roof and wall long before the roof itself wears through.
Centennial Park and the Streets Around It
Collinsville sits at the confluence of the Caney River, the Verdigris River and Bird Creek, and the storm record names a handful of places in town precisely enough to be worth walking through.
Centennial Park
On June 18, 2019, a 70 knot storm "uprooted or snapped a dozen trees in Centennial Park." Twelve trees in one park is a measure of how hard that wind blew at ground level, and any house near the park was standing in it. Uprooted trees are the dangerous kind for a roof, because the whole tree goes over and its reach is its full height.
E 106th Street N and N 197th E Avenue
The 2023 storms "snapped off large sections of hardwood trees near E 106th Street N and N 197th E Avenue." Large sections of hardwood are heavy enough to break rafters, not just shingles. If a tree near your house lost a big limb that summer, have the roof under it checked from the attic side as well as from above.
E 106th Street N and N 181st East Ave
On April 29, 2025, a 65 knot storm "blew down a tree across E 106th Street N and N 181st East Ave." That puts 106th Street North in the record twice, less than two years apart, at two different crossings. Anyone on that corridor has had more than one named storm overhead.
Near the three waterways
Houses close to the Caney, the Verdigris or Bird Creek live with more humidity and more tree growth than houses on open ground, which means damper shaded slopes and gutters that fill faster.
Up the road
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Mature Trees and What They Cost You
Collinsville's wind records keep coming back to trees, and big trees cost a Collinsville homeowner money in three different ways. The first is the obvious one: a limb or a trunk through the roof, which means decking and sometimes framing, not just shingles. The second is slow: branches that touch the roof rub away the granule surface in every breeze, and a rubbed patch wears out years before the rest of the roof. The third is shade, which keeps slopes damp, grows moss, and fills gutters with debris that backs water up under the edge.
Trimming limbs back from the roofline costs far less than any of those three. When we inspect a Collinsville roof, we will tell you which branches are the problem, and if a tree is beyond trimming, we will say that plainly so you can call an arborist before the next storm makes the decision for you. If a tree has already come through, our emergency storm damage line is answered around the clock.
Free Roof Inspection in Collinsville
We will check the house and every outbuilding the May 2026 hail could have reached. The inspection is free, and you keep every photo.