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The public record 1996 to today

Hail history by state and city

An index of the evidence, not a forecast and not a climatology: what the public federal storm record holds near 4,791 cities in 51 states, from 962,476 hail reports across every source we search, since 1996. Each page says what was searched, marks measured apart from detected, and counts how many independent sources carried each storm day. It is here so a professional can see whether a citable record exists near a place before running a single address. The wind family has its own index: wind history by state and by city.

51

States with hail on record

4,791

Cities with hail on record nearby

962,476

Hail reports in the archive, all sources

8.00in

Largest on record, Jul 2010

Cities with the most hail days

The cities with the most days of hail on record within 10 miles of their centre.

  1. 01 Colorado Springs, CO 282 days
  2. 02 Rapid City, SD 264 days
  3. 03 Creve Coeur, MO 228 days
  4. 04 Maryland Heights, MO 227 days
  5. 05 Wichita, KS 222 days
  6. 06 Olivette, MO 222 days
  7. 07 Cheyenne, WY 219 days
  8. 08 University City, MO 216 days
  9. 09 Ladue, MO 216 days
  10. 10 St. Ann, MO 214 days
  11. 11 Clayton, MO 211 days
  12. 12 Crestwood, MO 210 days

Hail history by state

Every state with hail on record, busiest first. Each page lists its cities.

  1. Texas 3,167 days 376 cities
  2. Kansas 2,456 days 64 cities
  3. Nebraska 2,277 days 32 cities
  4. Colorado 2,028 days 77 cities
  5. Oklahoma 1,910 days 75 cities
  6. Missouri 1,889 days 133 cities
  7. South Dakota 1,809 days 18 cities
  8. Florida 1,768 days 227 cities
  9. Illinois 1,583 days 327 cities
  10. Minnesota 1,583 days 153 cities
  11. Iowa 1,548 days 86 cities
  12. Montana 1,458 days 19 cities
  13. Georgia 1,453 days 143 cities
  14. North Carolina 1,428 days 145 cities
  15. Arkansas 1,384 days 68 cities
  16. Mississippi 1,300 days 61 cities
  17. Michigan 1,293 days 153 cities
  18. Alabama 1,285 days 106 cities
  19. Wisconsin 1,280 days 151 cities
  20. Wyoming 1,230 days 16 cities
  21. South Carolina 1,224 days 65 cities
  22. North Dakota 1,218 days 14 cities
  23. New Mexico 1,187 days 35 cities
  24. Ohio 1,140 days 254 cities
  25. Tennessee 1,134 days 104 cities
  26. Virginia 1,133 days 63 cities
  27. Indiana 1,132 days 126 cities
  28. Kentucky 1,061 days 79 cities
  29. Louisiana 988 days 59 cities
  30. California 971 days 412 cities
  31. Pennsylvania 953 days 192 cities
  32. New York 846 days 167 cities
  33. Arizona 845 days 56 cities
  34. West Virginia 723 days 26 cities
  35. Idaho 721 days 36 cities
  36. Oregon 466 days 71 cities
  37. Maryland 451 days 44 cities
  38. New Jersey 449 days 192 cities
  39. Washington 395 days 121 cities
  40. Maine 334 days 20 cities
  41. Utah 333 days 94 cities
  42. Massachusetts 326 days 54 cities
  43. Nevada 319 days 12 cities
  44. Vermont 284 days 8 cities
  45. New Hampshire 268 days 13 cities
  46. Connecticut 186 days 21 cities
  47. Delaware 151 days 11 cities
  48. Rhode Island 67 days 8 cities
  49. District of Columbia 20 days 1 city
  50. Alaska 18 days 2 cities
  51. Hawaii 15 days 1 city
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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive with a point within the page radius of a city's Census centre, and for a state, filed under that state by its source. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 1 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.