NOAA's Storm Events Database logged 60,028 hail reports across the United States from 2019 to 2025. We mapped each county-based report to its metro area with the Census Bureau's 2023 metro delineations; 26,992 of them fell inside a metro county. These are the ten metros with the most reports, the single day in each that produced the most, and how much of that year the one day was.
| Metro | Hail reports, 2019 to 2025 | May to August share | Biggest single day | Roofing locations (fewer than five employees) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dallas-Fort Worth, TX | 1,555 | 48% | May 27, 2024: 118 of the year's 328 (36%) | 907 (717) |
| Oklahoma City, OK | 1,022 | 48% | April 19, 2023: 145 of 268 (54%) | 229 (169) |
| Rapid City, SD | 825 | 94% | July 10, 2020: 28 of 198 (14%) | 27 (20) |
| Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO | 688 | 96% | May 30, 2024: 73 of 124 (59%) | 491 (398) |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI | 650 | 84% | May 19, 2022: 83 of 193 (43%) | 398 (295) |
| Tulsa, OK | 475 | 60% | May 21, 2024: 56 of 107 (52%) | 111 (91) |
| San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX | 455 | 38% | May 3, 2021: 45 of 90 (50%) | 175 (128) |
| St. Louis, MO-IL | 447 | 46% | March 14, 2025: 117 of 235 (50%) | 242 (143) |
| Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | 445 | 51% | April 4, 2023: 83 of 138 (60%) | 768 (572) |
| Kansas City, MO-KS | 441 | 52% | May 19, 2025: 41 of 70 (59%) | 204 (134) |
In seven of the ten, one day held at least half of a year's reports in at least one of the seven years: Oklahoma City, Denver, Tulsa, San Antonio, St. Louis, Chicago and Kansas City. Dallas-Fort Worth and Minneapolis never crossed half; their busiest days held 36 and 46 percent of a year. Rapid City is the exception on the list: 94 percent of its reports fall between May and August, but no single day held more than 19 percent of a year.
A hail report is not a damaged roof. One storm produces many reports, spotter density differs from metro to metro, and county lines decide what a metro counts. Years within the same metro compare well with each other; totals between metros compare less well.
The shape is the same everywhere a roofer works: a year of calls arrives in one week, and the companies it arrives at are small. In every metro on the list more than half of the roofing contractor locations have fewer than five employees, and in eight of the ten it is more than seven in ten. The call that nobody picks up in that week goes to whoever picks up next.
What ProxMedia does about it: an AI receptionist for roofing companies answers every call in the storm week, books inspections in the order they came in, and routes active leaks under the rule you wrote. The Front Range cut of the same data is in the nine-county note.
Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, bulk detail files for 2019 to 2025 (event type Hail, county-based events), with each county assigned to its metro by the Census Bureau's July 2023 core-based statistical area delineation file; US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, metro file, NAICS 238160 roofing contractors (establishments with paid employees). Counted from the raw files on October 30, 2026.