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.
Pueblo County · Colorado · NOAA radar record 2016–2025
Hail damage in Pueblo, CO
Radar has detected hail over Pueblo on 314 separate days since 2016. On 127 of them the largest stone was estimated at golf-ball size or bigger. The biggest was 10.2 cm on July 16, 2025.
A very high value in this historical exposure model. This is not a national percentile or a diagnosis of your roof; the component values explain the result.
How we got to that number
| Component | Value | Weight | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frequency Hail days per year at 1.00 in (2.5 cm) or larger | 62 / 100 | × 0.35 | 21.7 |
| Severity Largest stone radar estimated in the whole window | 100 / 100 | × 0.30 | 30.0 |
| Recency How long since the last 2 in (5 cm) day | 94 / 100 | × 0.20 | 18.7 |
| Concentration Hail days per year reaching golf-ball size | 64 / 100 | × 0.15 | 9.5 |
| RoofTake Score | 80 | ||
The score describes an area, not a house. Two roofs on the same street of different ages face very different risk from the identical storm. The whole formula and its weights are on the methodology page, and you can recompute it yourself from our public data.
Southern Colorado hail arrives earlier in the season than the Denver metro.
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Data last refreshed: · source: NOAA NCEI Severe Weather Data Inventory, dataset nx3hail
The ten biggest hail days in Pueblo since 2016
| Date | Radar max size | Metric | Comparison | Signatures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 23, 2018 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 22 |
| August 6, 2018 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 40 |
| June 7, 2022 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 28 |
| May 24, 2023 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 64 |
| July 16, 2025 | 4.00 in | 10.2 cm | Grapefruit | 38 |
| July 24, 2018 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 22 |
| August 8, 2018 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 56 |
| July 1, 2021 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 31 |
| June 30, 2023 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 17 |
| August 5, 2023 | 3.75 in | 9.5 cm | Teacup | 40 |
"Signatures" is the number of separate radar volume scans that detected hail in a storm cell within 25 miles that day. More signatures means a longer-lived or larger storm, not necessarily bigger stones.
Hail days by year
Busiest year in the record: 2025 with 46 hail days.
Hail days by month
Peak month: July. Hail season in Colorado is short and it is not distributed evenly — most of the annual risk arrives in a few weeks.
What to do with this if you own a roof in Pueblo
- Find your dates. Look up your ZIP for the record nearest you, and note every day at 1.00 in or above since you bought the house.
- Work out whether your roof could have survived them. A twelve-year-old asphalt roof and a two-year-old one respond very differently to the same stone — the age calculator explains why.
- Look, before you file. Nine photographs, none of them requiring you to get on the roof.
- Check the arithmetic. If the actual cash value of the damage is under your deductible, filing pays nothing — work it out first.
- Then write. The letter generator puts the Pueblo radar record and the NOAA citation into your notice of claim.
Every hail day radar recorded near Pueblo
314 days, most recent first. Sizes are radar estimates of the largest stone aloft in the cell, not measurements at any address.
- September 21, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- September 18, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- September 17, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- September 10, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- September 7, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- August 29, 20253.00 in (7.6 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- August 27, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- August 24, 20253.75 in (9.5 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- August 10, 20253.25 in (8.3 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- August 8, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- August 1, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 31, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- July 29, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 25, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- July 24, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- July 22, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- July 19, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- July 18, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- July 17, 20251.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- July 16, 20254.00 in (10.2 cm) — Grapefruit size, radar-estimated
- July 14, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 13, 20252.75 in (7.0 cm) — Baseball size, radar-estimated
- July 12, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- July 11, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- July 10, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- July 7, 20252.25 in (5.7 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 6, 20252.00 in (5.1 cm) — Hen egg size, radar-estimated
- July 5, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- June 29, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- June 25, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 24, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- June 17, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- June 14, 20252.50 in (6.3 cm) — Tennis ball size, radar-estimated
- June 13, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- June 6, 20253.75 in (9.5 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- June 1, 20251.75 in (4.4 cm) — Golf ball size, radar-estimated
- May 31, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- May 29, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 28, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- May 27, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 26, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- May 25, 20250.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- May 4, 20250.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- April 26, 20251.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- April 25, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- April 24, 20251.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- September 17, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- September 15, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- September 8, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
- August 21, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- August 20, 20243.00 in (7.6 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- August 19, 20242.50 in (6.3 cm) — Tennis ball size, radar-estimated
- August 13, 20243.25 in (8.3 cm) — Teacup size, radar-estimated
- August 2, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- July 22, 20241.25 in (3.2 cm) — Half dollar size, radar-estimated
- July 21, 20241.50 in (3.8 cm) — Ping-pong ball size, radar-estimated
- July 19, 20242.50 in (6.3 cm) — Tennis ball size, radar-estimated
- July 18, 20240.50 in (1.3 cm) — Marble size, radar-estimated
- July 17, 20241.00 in (2.5 cm) — Quarter size, radar-estimated
- July 16, 20240.75 in (1.9 cm) — Penny size, radar-estimated
Showing the 60 most recent of 314. The full record is in the JSON we publish: pueblo-co.json.
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Hail in Pueblo, CO: common questions
How often does Pueblo get damaging hail?
Radar recorded 314 hail days within 25 miles of the city centre between 2016 and 2025 — an average of 31.4 a year, of which 12.7 a year were at golf-ball size or larger. Not every one of those damages roofs.
When is hail season in Pueblo?
The busiest month in this record is July, and 2025 was the busiest single year with 46 hail days.
Does this mean my roof is damaged?
No. These are radar estimates of the largest stone aloft in a storm cell somewhere within 25 miles of the city centre. Whether anything landed on your street, and whether it damaged your particular roof, needs somebody to look.
How do I use this for an insurance claim?
A specific date with a public, citable source is what turns 'sometime last year' into a date of loss. Use the claim letter generator, which pulls the date and the NOAA citation in for you.
Why 25 miles?
It is wide enough to catch storms that clipped the metro and narrow enough that the number still means something for a house inside it. The same radius is used for every metro so the pages are comparable.
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