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The public record 1996 to today

Colorado hail history

The public federal storm record holds 2,019 days with hail somewhere in Colorado since 1996, 1,446 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 35,116 reports. The largest on record is 5.25″ on 8 August 2023 in YUMA County. 77 cities have hail on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched and which storm days more than one source carried. The wind family has its own index: Colorado wind history.

2,019

Days with hail on record, statewide

1,446

Days at 1.00″ or more

5.25in

Largest on record, Aug 2023

77

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Colorado

Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Colorado Springs 260 days
  2. 02 Centennial 177 days
  3. 03 Greenwood Village 177 days
  4. 04 Cherry Hills Village 173 days
  5. 05 Parker 161 days
  6. 06 Lone Tree 157 days
  7. 07 Castle Pines 153 days
  8. 08 Englewood 152 days
  9. 09 Monument 149 days
  10. 10 Sheridan 147 days
  11. 11 Denver 144 days
  12. 12 Wheat Ridge 128 days
  13. 13 Lakewood 122 days
  14. 14 Littleton 120 days
  15. 15 Fountain 117 days
  16. 16 Federal Heights 117 days
  17. 17 Northglenn 115 days
  18. 18 Aurora 109 days
  19. 19 Westminster 109 days
  20. 20 Pueblo 107 days
  21. 21 Erie 105 days
  22. 22 Thornton 104 days
  23. 23 Windsor 104 days
  24. 24 Lafayette 104 days
  25. 25 Timnath 103 days
  26. 26 Castle Rock 102 days
  27. 27 Broomfield 102 days
  28. 28 Arvada 100 days
  29. 29 Superior 100 days
  30. 30 Brighton 99 days
Every place in Colorado (78)

Hail days by year in Colorado

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2015, with 93 days of hail, 64 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Colorado

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Colorado: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
08 Aug 2023 5.25″ Ground observation YUMA, CO
08 Aug 2023 5.25″ Ground observation Not stated
13 Aug 2019 5.00″ Ground observation KIT CARSON, CO
08 Aug 2023 5.00″ Ground observation Yuma, CO
08 Aug 2023 5.00″ Ground observation Yuma, CO
13 Aug 2019 4.83″ Ground observation Not stated
13 Aug 2019 4.83″ Ground observation KIT CARSON, CO
22 May 1996 4.50″ Ground observation SEDGWICK, CO

Hail days by month in Colorado

Hail here is a June matter: 472 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Colorado

The figures on this page are the record across Colorado: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed under Colorado by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. 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 27 August 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.