City hail ranking
Top 20 U.S. Cities Most Hit by Hail (2020–2025)
NOAA hail report concentrations by city, with exact counts, shareable charting, and newsroom-ready citation text.
Archive overview
City-level hail frequency (2020–2025)
This ranking compares how often specific cities appear in NOAA hail reports from 2020 through 2025. It is designed for newsroom reference, market context, and regional storm pattern analysis.
Hail report rows in NOAA sample window
51,034
Top city
Rapid City, SD (157)
Top city share of sample
0.31%
Data file
d2025_c20260224.csv.gz
Data window
2020–2025
Last updated: March 2026 | Data source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events
Top 12 city count chart
Hail report count is the number of official NOAA hail rows mentioning that locality in 2020–2025. Not equal to event count.
Top 20 Cities Most Hit by Hail
| Rank | City | State | Hail reports | Share of window |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rapid City | South Dakota | 157 | 0.31% |
| 2 | Cheyenne | Wyoming | 91 | 0.18% |
| 3 | St Francis | Kansas | 70 | 0.14% |
| 4 | Colorado Springs | Colorado | 62 | 0.12% |
| 5 | Norman | Oklahoma | 60 | 0.12% |
| 6 | Noble | Oklahoma | 58 | 0.11% |
| 7 | Moore | Oklahoma | 55 | 0.11% |
| 8 | Wichita Falls | Texas | 55 | 0.11% |
| 9 | Ada | Oklahoma | 55 | 0.11% |
| 10 | Goodland | Kansas | 54 | 0.11% |
| 11 | Norman Westheimer | Oklahoma | 54 | 0.11% |
| 12 | Edmond | Oklahoma | 52 | 0.10% |
| 13 | Peterson | Colorado | 51 | 0.10% |
| 14 | Denver | Colorado | 51 | 0.10% |
| 15 | Hermosa | South Dakota | 47 | 0.09% |
| 16 | Amarillo | Texas | 47 | 0.09% |
| 17 | Custer | South Dakota | 44 | 0.09% |
| 18 | Midland | Texas | 43 | 0.08% |
| 19 | Tulsa | Oklahoma | 43 | 0.08% |
| 20 | The Village | Oklahoma | 43 | 0.08% |
Citation
Citation:
HailDrive Storm Archive – "Which U.S. City Gets the Most Hail? (2020–2025)"
https://haildrive.com/data/most-hail-prone-cities
Last updated: March 2026
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Notes for use
- Report volume is a strong newsroom signal for recurrence, not storm severity.
- Reporting density and local coverage affect rankings, especially near forecast offices and metro edges.
- Use the table plus chart together; both are easy for editors to quote.
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