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States with the most hail events

Texas has recorded the most hail events of any state, with 14,072 records across the NOAA Storm Events Database. This ranking covers all 53 states and territories with at least one matching event.

Texas
Most hail events
14,072
Texas events
97,094
Records nationwide

Texas has the most hail events of any state (14,072, 14% of the 97,094 records in this ranking)

PlainHazard ranks 53 states and territories using NOAA hail-event records. Texas leads the catalog, while the top three states together account for 29% of records. Hail-event counts are historical NOAA records, not a forecast, hail-size measure, or insurance-loss ranking.

  • 14,072 Texas records
  • 14% held by Texas
  • 29% held by the top 3

How concentrated are the events

Texas accounts for 14% of the 97,094 hail records in this ranking. The top three states - Texas, Kansas, Nebraska - account for 29%.

14%
of records in Texas
29%
of records in the top 3
53
states & territories covered

Hail-event counts are historical NOAA records, not a forecast, hail-size measure, or insurance-loss ranking.

What this ranking measures

This page sums NOAA hail-event records by state and ranks the highest totals first. It is a count of past recorded events, not a forecast and not a normalized per-capita, land-area, or personal-risk measure. Hail-event counts are historical NOAA records, not a forecast, hail-size measure, or insurance-loss ranking.

Top 12 states by hail events

Each row links to the state profile; this is a crawlable ranking, not an image-only chart.

  1. 1
    Texas 14.1K hail events
  2. 2
    Kansas 8.3K hail events
  3. 3
    Nebraska 6.1K hail events
  4. 4
    Oklahoma 5.9K hail events
  5. 5
    Colorado 4.9K hail events
  6. 6
    South Dakota 4.8K hail events
  7. 7
    Missouri 4.4K hail events
  8. 8
    Minnesota 4.2K hail events
  9. 9
    Iowa 3.7K hail events
  10. 10
    Illinois 3.2K hail events
  11. 11
    North Dakota 2.7K hail events
  12. 12
    Wisconsin 2.6K hail events

Source NOAA Storm Events Database · 2026-08-25

The bar to make this top-12 list

Distribution of hail event counts across ranked states

2.6K Top 23% higher than 77% of 53 states

#12 cutoff 0 14.7K all states in this ranking, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more states. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source NOAA Storm Events Database · 2026-08-25

Full hail-events-by-state ranking

States with the most recorded events rank first. The last column shows fatalities recorded in the same NOAA event rows.

#StateRecorded Events
1TexasTX14,072
2KansasKS8,265
3NebraskaNE6,079
4OklahomaOK5,894
5ColoradoCO4,913
6South DakotaSD4,801
7MissouriMO4,411
8MinnesotaMN4,203
9IowaIA3,736
10IllinoisIL3,195
11North DakotaND2,705
12WisconsinWI2,620
13ArkansasAR2,230
14MontanaMT2,015
15WyomingWY1,811
16OhioOH1,749
17TennesseeTN1,690
18New MexicoNM1,669
19IndianaIN1,643
20North CarolinaNC1,623
21KentuckyKY1,534
22MississippiMS1,411
23PennsylvaniaPA1,400
24AlabamaAL1,349
25VirginiaVA1,329
26GeorgiaGA1,257
27LouisianaLA1,224
28South CarolinaSC1,207
29FloridaFL1,012
30MichiganMI962
31New YorkNY825
32West VirginiaWV757
33MarylandMD410
34ArizonaAZ401
35New JerseyNJ361
36CaliforniaCA355
37MassachusettsMA333
38New HampshireNH278
39MaineME257
40IdahoID252
41UtahUT169
42OregonOR161
43VermontVT117
44ConnecticutCT104
45NevadaNV85
46WashingtonWA75
47DelawareDE49
48Puerto RicoPR37
49Rhode IslandRI31
50District of ColumbiaDC19
51AlaskaAK6
52HawaiiHI2
53U.S. Virgin IslandsVI1

What to do with this ranking

Texas accounts for 14% of the 97,094 records in this ranking; the top three states hold 29%.

  • Open Texas's state profile for county-level context. Texas profile
  • Explore the national hazard pages for year and geography tables behind the rankings. Hazard records
  • Read how NOAA storm-event counts differ from federal disaster-declaration records before citing either. Disaster-data guide

Hail-event counts are historical NOAA records, not a forecast, hail-size measure, or insurance-loss ranking.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database NOAA hail-event records Recorded events depend on NOAA monitoring and reporting coverage, which has expanded over time; earlier decades can undercount relative to recent years.

Frequently Asked Questions

Which US state has the most hail events?
Texas has the most NOAA-recorded hail events of any state, with 14,072 records - 14% of the 97,094 records in this ranking.
Are hail events concentrated in a few states?
Yes. The top three states - Texas, Kansas, Nebraska - account for 29% of all records in this ranking. Hail-event counts are historical NOAA records, not a forecast, hail-size measure, or insurance-loss ranking.

Every figure on PlainHazard is rendered directly from FEMA federal disaster data, no number is typed in by an editor. This ranking sums NOAA hail-event records by state. It labels the aggregation rather than presenting it as a forecast or a personal-risk measure. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or national statistics report, the data & editorial changelog, or report a data error.