Coweta Roofing for Homes, Barns and Outbuildings
Coweta's worst storm on record is remembered by its barns. The wind destroyed some outright and blew the roofs off others.
The Day the Barns Lost Their Roofs
On July 14, 2016, a 70 knot storm crossed Coweta and left two records. The first reads: "destroyed several barns and outbuildings, and blew the roofs off of several others." The second: "damaged the roof of the Coweta School, damaged buildings, blew down power lines." That one storm defines Coweta's history more than anything else on its record.
It is worth being plain about the rest of that record, because it is thin. Between 2016 and 2026 the Coweta reporting point logged only 9 significant events, against 82 in Tulsa and 75 in Broken Arrow. Apart from July 2016, there was a 56 knot storm on April 13, 2018, and a handful of hail days. A quiet record is good news, but it is not a promise, and the storm that does come can be a serious one.
The barns are the lesson. Farm buildings lose their roofs in storms that leave the house standing, and on a property with both, the outbuildings are usually the first thing to check.
Pecans, Cotton and the River Valley
Coweta sits about two miles from the fertile valley of the Arkansas River, and it has always been farm country. Cotton and pecans were the significant crops here, and the town still holds an annual Pecan Festival.
Coweta's farm country means a different mix of roofs from a suburb. Alongside the house there may be a barn, an equipment shed, a hay barn or a shop, often with metal roofing over long, open spans. Those buildings were built to be practical, not to be watertight living space, and they tend to be checked only when something has already gone wrong. Where pecan trees stand close to a house or barn, their limbs are one more thing a strong storm can bring down onto a roof.
Hail reaches them too. On April 29, 2016, Coweta logged hail at 2.00 inches, with the survey note "Hail larger than golfball size damaged the roofs of buildings and vehicles." It was the largest of four hail events of an inch or more on the town's record, and "buildings" in a town like Coweta covers barns and sheds as well as houses.
Koweta Mission and the Old Town
Muscogee Creek families first settled here around 1840, and in 1843 the Presbyterian minister Robert Loughridge established the Koweta Mission. The town took its name from a Lower Creek town on the Chattahoochee River in southwestern Georgia. Its post office opened on May 24, 1897, and Coweta incorporated in 1901.
It had 9,654 people at the 2020 Census, with a 2025 estimate of about 11,472. That is roughly 1,800 more people in five years, and growth like that brings new subdivisions with roofs that all age on the same schedule.
Farms, Town and the Mission Road
Coweta's roofs fall into a few kinds, and each fails differently.
Barns, shops and open-sided sheds
The July 2016 survey is a lesson in how outbuildings lose roofs. A barn with its big doors open, or a three-sided equipment shed, lets wind blow straight inside. That air presses up on the underside of the roof while the wind passing over the top pulls up from above, and the roof is pushed and pulled off at the same time. Closing doors ahead of a storm helps. So does checking that the roof panels are fastened into sound framing, not into wood that has softened at the bearing points over the years. On an older Coweta barn, the panels themselves are often still sound while the nails or screws holding them have rusted thin, and rusted fasteners are what let go first in a storm like July 2016.
Around the Coweta School
The same 2016 storm damaged the roof of the Coweta School. School roofs tend to be large and low, and a roof like that takes wind at the perimeter first, where edge metal and membrane peel back. Houses near the school stood in the same gusts that day.
Toward the old mission
The Koweta Mission Site went on the National Register in 1973, though only its cemetery remains. The First Presbyterian Church of Coweta, now the Mission Bell Museum, was listed in 2003 and is owned by the city. A building of that age has very likely had its roof replaced more than once, and on an old Coweta building like the church, the flashing against old walls matters more than the shingles.
The newer town
With Coweta growing past 11,000, the newest houses have the opposite profile to the old farm buildings: a single layer, a sound deck, and an installation that should be checked once against the shortcuts builders sometimes take, such as missing drip edge or too little attic ventilation.
Neighbors
From our Jenks shop we also serve Broken Arrow, Bixby and Inola.
Free Roof Inspection in Coweta
We will look at the house and every barn, shop and shed on your Coweta property in one visit. The inspection is free, and so are the photos.