State hail ranking

Hail Reports by State
(2020-2025)

This page compares hail report volume across the leading states in the current 2020-2025 ranking set. Use the chart for quick state comparison, the map for geographic context, and the table for exact counts and shares.

Ranked sample

41,639 hail rows Total report rows represented by the 20-state ranking shown on this page.

Top state

Texas - 7,936 The highest hail report count in the current state ranking set.

Top three states

Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma Together they account for more than one-third of the ranked sample.

Key statistics

How the ranking breaks down

These figures summarize the state-level concentration shown in the chart, map, and table below.

Ranked sample size

41,639 rows

The 20-state extract represented on this page.

Texas share

19.06%

Texas alone accounts for roughly one-fifth of the ranking sample.

Top three share

36.45%

Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma make up more than a third of the total shown here.

Primary use

State comparison

This page is designed to show where hail reports cluster most heavily across the leading states.

Top 10 chart

States with the most hail reports

Counts and shares here use the ranked 20-state sample represented on this page.

Texas7,936 reports
Kansas3,685 reports
Oklahoma3,558 reports
Nebraska3,008 reports
South Dakota2,461 reports
Colorado2,460 reports
Minnesota2,364 reports
Missouri2,218 reports
Iowa1,982 reports
Illinois1,771 reports

What the ranking shows

The strongest hail report concentration stays centered in the Great Plains and adjacent Midwest, with Texas leading the field by a wide margin.

Coverage note

This static page visualizes the ranked state extract used for the current comparison. States not listed in the extract appear muted on the map instead of being treated as verified zeroes.

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Citation

Citation:
HailDrive Storm Archive - "Hail Reports by State (2020-2025)"
https://haildrive.com/data/hailstorm-frequency-map
Last updated: March 2026
Data source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events

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Map

Geographic view of the ranked state set

Use the map for regional context and the table below when exact counts matter.

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Ranking table

Top 20 states in the current hail ranking set

Shares below are percentages of the 41,639-row sample represented on this page.

Rank State Reports Share of ranked sample Signal
1Texas7,936
100
2Kansas3,685
46.5
3Oklahoma3,558
44.9
4Nebraska3,008
38
5South Dakota2,461
31
6Colorado2,460
31
7Minnesota2,364
29.8
8Missouri2,218
28
9Iowa1,982
25
10Illinois1,771
22.4
11Wisconsin1,587
20
12Arkansas1,340
16.9
13North Dakota1,188
15
14Tennessee1,063
13.4
15Montana905
11.4
16Ohio895
11.3
17Mississippi833
10.5
18Alabama806
10.2
19Indiana792
10
20Pennsylvania787
9.9

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