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We counted the days since 2014 with hail of 1.75 inches or larger in the county of each of 206 cities. The median is 4; Weld County, Colorado leads with 38. County size and reporti...
In the 145 counties around our cities, a median 62.2% of roofing firms have fewer than five employees. Median roofer pay runs from $43,680 in Oklahoma to $77,900 in Illinois. What ...
Ten years of NASA data for 206 cities: hot days, freeze-thaw days and heavy rain. McAllen sees 183 days at 90°F or higher, Denver sees 147 freeze-thaw days.
We split 90,532 NOAA hail reports by calendar month for 19 states. May is the busiest month nationally (24.7%), but the calendar differs sharply by state: 17% of Texas reports fall...
$13.56B in reported hail damage, 90,532 reports, 44 states. Texas holds 61%, three years hold 61%, and ten county-days hold 61%.
We matched Census housing age with NOAA golf-ball hail days for 542 counties with 20,000+ homes. 129 have 60%+ pre-1980 homes, 18 have 25+ big-hail days, and only Potter County, TX...
Arkansas recorded 2,574 hail events across 75 counties from 2014 to June 2026, the smallest total among the four states in this series. The peak full year was 2023 at 346 events, a...
From July 1 to 14, 2026, NOAA recorded 388 hail reports at 1.0 inch or larger, with 81 reaching golf-ball size (1.75") or greater. South Dakota led with 60 reports, followed by Neb...
Oklahoma recorded 6,684 hail events across 77 counties from 2014 to June 2026, with its busiest full year, 836 events, in 2025. Unlike its neighbors, Oklahoma's last three full yea...
El Paso County, Colorado tops our national hail database with 869 events recorded from 2014 to June 2026, followed by Pennington County, South Dakota at 745. Two Texas counties als...
Texas recorded 15,822 hail events across 253 counties from 2014 to June 2026, the highest total in our database. The 2023 peak of 1,912 events was the largest single-year count for...
Kansas recorded 9,799 hail events across all 105 counties from 2014 to June 2026, with a peak of 1,034 events in 2016. After a decline that bottomed out at 463 events in 2022, coun...
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