Historical hail archive: January 2016–December 2025. NOAA radar estimates within 25 miles of each city centre. ZIP matches use the first three digits; this is not a property-level report or a live alert service. Coverage and source.
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What hail has radar recorded near your city?
Enter a ZIP code. Explore radar hail detections from 2016 through 2025 in a matched metro area, with estimated sizes and dates. These are area observations, not evidence of damage to an individual roof.
We do not store what you type here. The lookup runs in your browser against static files. How it works.
The three things people get wrong after a hailstorm
Waiting to see if it leaks
Hail damage to an asphalt roof usually does not leak for years. By the time it does, the date of loss is old, the storm is hard to prove, and the insurer has a much easier argument. What damage actually looks like.
Signing whatever the door-knocker puts in front of them
The form is often a contingency contract, not an inspection authorisation. And anyone offering to absorb your deductible is proposing insurance fraud. The questions to ask instead.
Filing before they know the number
If the actual cash value of the damage is below your deductible, filing pays nothing and still shows in your loss history. Work out what the policy would pay first.
11 tools, all free, none of them want your email
Hail history lookup
Historical radar hail days for your matched metro area, 2016–2025.
Open →Is it time for a new roof?
Eight questions, a 0–100 score, and what to do next.
Open →What your roof has been through
A printable area hail history for the years covered by our archive.
Open →Roof age & remaining life
Install year plus material gives you the years you have left.
Open →Replacement cost estimator
Square footage and material to a cost range. A model, not data.
Open →ACV vs RCV payout calculator
What your policy actually pays after depreciation and deductible.
Open →Claim deadline tracker
The four clocks that start on the day the hail fell.
Open →Adjuster photo checklist
The nine shots an adjuster wants, and how to take them.
Open →Claim letter generator
A letter to your insurer with the storm date filled in from our data.
Open →Impact-resistance comparator
Class 1–4 shingles, what survives what size hail, and premium credits.
Open →Hail alerts by email
Information about hail email alerts and current availability.
Open →The metros we cover
Fifty US metro areas, ranked by how many golf-ball-or-larger hail days radar has recorded since 2016. Every page carries the real record for that place, not a template.
Amarillo, TX
405 hail days on radar · 158 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Rapid City, SD
331 hail days on radar · 156 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Wichita, KS
359 hail days on radar · 151 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Abilene, TX
326 hail days on radar · 147 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Fort Worth, TX
360 hail days on radar · 146 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Lubbock, TX
329 hail days on radar · 142 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Oklahoma City, OK
352 hail days on radar · 139 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Lawton, OK
331 hail days on radar · 139 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Dallas, TX
342 hail days on radar · 134 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Midland, TX
295 hail days on radar · 133 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Wichita Falls, TX
305 hail days on radar · 131 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →Colorado Springs, CO
447 hail days on radar · 128 at golf-ball size or larger · biggest 10.2 cm
See the record →All 50 metro areas By state Biggest storms on record The 2025 hail year
Data last refreshed: · source: NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory
Common questions
Where does the hail data come from?
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information publishes NEXRAD Level-III hail signatures through the Severe Weather Data Inventory. We download them once, store them as static files, and never call NOAA from your browser. It is public domain data and we link the source on every page.
Does a hail signature mean my roof is damaged?
No. It means the radar algorithm estimated hail of that size aloft in a storm cell near your area. Ground truth varies enormously across a few hundred metres, and identical hail does different things to a four-year-old roof and a seventeen-year-old one. Use it to decide whether it is worth looking.
Is this free? What is the catch?
Every tool on the site is free and none of them require an email address. We are paid a fee when somebody asks to be contacted by a contractor in our partner network. We may also display ads. Read the 'how this site makes money' page.
Do you sell my details?
Only if you fill in the contractor quote form and tick the consent box, in which case your details go to the partners named next to that box. Lookup and calculator inputs stay in your browser. Optional analytics and advertising are explained in our privacy policy.
How is this different from the free hail report a roofing company offers?
Almost every free storm damage report online is published by a roofing contractor or a lead vendor, and it exists to get an inspection booked. Ours is published by neither. We show you the raw radar record including the storms that were too small to matter, we tell you when filing a claim would pay you nothing, and we state on its own page exactly how we are paid. Read the report, then decide.
Is this a report for my exact address?
No, and be careful with anything that claims to be. We match the first three ZIP digits to a metro we cover and report radar detections within 25 miles of that city centre. Hail swaths are narrow, so a detection near your area is a reason to look at your roof, not proof that anything landed on it.
Why only 50 metro areas?
Because a page with real numbers on it is worth more than a thousand pages of template text with a city name swapped in. We cover the metros where hail actually drives roof claims. If yours is missing, tell us and we will queue it.
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