Storm damage repair cost in Houston: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Houston owners paid a median $15,000 for tornado and hurricane damage repairs: $6,400 above the U.S. median, second-highest of 6 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Houston owners paid
$15,000
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
Margin of error ±$5,848: at 90% confidence the Houston median lies between $9,152 and $20,848.
How Houston compares
- U.S. median, same work
- $8,600
- Rank, highest first
- 2 of 6
Houston: $15,000. The big-metro medians run from $2,000 to $18,000.
9 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 6.
No published figure: Atlanta, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle, Washington DC.
What it covers
Repairs after tornado and hurricane damage, counted together, from a few shingles to major rebuilding.
The Census category is “Tornado/hurricane” within “Disaster Repairs”: what Houston-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
Ask every contractor to price the same scope, in writing. Are emergency protection, debris removal and permanent repairs quoted separately?
Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.