18 Hail Storms Crossed DFW This Year. Here Is What That Did.

Between April and the end of September, hail of an inch or more fell across the counties we track on 18 separate days. Not one storm. Eighteen. Our own storm archive put 481,083 homes under that hail, in 109 cities and 180 zip codes.

Most people in the Metroplex could name one storm from this year — the big one in late April. Almost nobody could name eighteen, because seventeen of them did not leak, did not make the news, and did not produce a claim worth filing. That is exactly why they matter.

These are our numbers, not a press release. We keep our own storm archive because we need to know which streets took what, and this is the season it describes, computed on 6 October 2026.

The season, month by month

67% of the entire season landed in four days. From 25–28 April, storms moved across the Metroplex on four consecutive days and put 322,737 homes under an inch or more of hail across 132 zip codes. If you remember one storm from 2026, it is that run.

June produced the biggest stones: 3,594 homes took 2″ hail — hen-egg size — and every one of those hits was in Frisco. Then the season went quiet through August, before one last golf-ball storm on 27 September over Parker County and west Fort Worth, which caught 2,198 homes.

September closed with a 55 mph wind event on 30 September that touched 762,473 homes across 179 zip codes. We have left it out of every hail figure on this page, because it brought no hail at all. It is the largest single event in our archive and counting it as hail would overstate the season by more than half.

How hard it actually hit, by size

An inch is the size most carriers treat as potentially damaging, which is why that is where we draw the line. Golf-ball or larger landed 832 times, over 28,004 homes.

A roof does not fail in one storm. It fails from 18.

This is the part that does not show up in a claim file. A single 1″ stone on a healthy shingle usually does nothing you would notice. It knocks a few granules loose and exposes a little more asphalt to the sun. Nothing leaks. Nobody calls anybody.

Do that eighteen times in six months and the arithmetic changes. Every granule that comes off stops shading the asphalt underneath it, and asphalt that stops being shaded oxidises and goes brittle from the inside. A brittle shingle cracks under the next stone that a flexible one would have shrugged off. The damage compounds, and none of it is visible from the driveway.

And the storms are not spread evenly. 21 of the 109 cities in our data took 1″-or-larger hail on three or more separate days this year. If you live in Dallas, hail of an inch or more fell on your city on eight different days between April and September.

Ask yourself the honest question: in those eighteen storms, how many times did anybody actually go up and look?

Where it concentrated

Our archive is subdivision-level rather than city-level, which means we can see it street by street — 14,231 separate subdivisions took an inch or more at some point this year. The heaviest single hits:

What this does to your roof’s paperwork, not just its shingles

Here is the thing most homeowners find out at the worst possible moment: carriers increasingly price roofs on age, not condition. Once a roof passes roughly ten years, a lot of Texas policies move it from replacement cost to actual cash value — meaning a settlement is reduced by depreciation, and the homeowner covers the difference. On a roof that has absorbed eighteen storms, that difference is not small.

So the cumulative damage and the shrinking payout arrive together. The roof gets quietly worse while the policy that was supposed to replace it gets quietly weaker. We wrote about two homeowners who hit that wall this autumn — one still arguing with his carrier since spring, one with an 11-year-old roof on actual cash value where even winning the claim would not buy a roof.

What you can actually do about it

Find out what condition your roof is actually in. Not a guess from the ground, and not a verdict from whoever knocked on your door after the April storms — a measured number you can keep.

We fly the roof with a drone and give it a Roof Health Score out of 100. It takes 15–20 minutes, nobody walks on your shingles, and it is free. You get a dated record of the condition, which is worth having on file regardless of what you decide to do next — and if the assessment says you genuinely need a replacement, we will tell you that. We publish what our assessments actually score, including the ones that come back bad.

If the roof is sound but aging, there is a third option between doing nothing and a full replacement — treating the shingles to slow the oxidation that the last eighteen storms accelerated, which carries a warranty of five to twenty years depending on tier. But that is a conversation for after the assessment, not before it.

Figures are from Texas Roof Rescue’s own storm archive, covering the 2026 season through 30 September, computed 6 October 2026 from 22 storm exports deduplicated to unique date-zip-subdivision-size-homes events. “Hail storm” means a distinct date on which hail of 1.00″ or more was recorded over the counties we track: Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant. Including the two late-September days that brought damaging wind but no hail, there were 20 storm days in total. Our feed does not cover Hood, Hunt, Kaufman, Rockwall, Somervell, Wise — six of the thirteen counties in the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metro — so the true Metroplex totals are higher than the numbers above, not lower. Every figure here is a floor.