Large Hail and Damaging Wind by ZIP Code

Source period December 2025. Recomputed by ZipCheckup from the cited federal source.

From 2015 through 2024, the U.S. logged 70,898 large-hail events and 172,439 damaging thunderstorm-wind events across 3,075 counties, with 271 direct deaths and 1,487 direct injuries, as of December 2025.

By state

We report two independent facts side by side and do not rank states. A larger count reflects the size of a state's inventory and its reporting activity, not a judgment about water safety.

How we compute this

We use NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information Storm Events database and count two severe-thunderstorm perils at the county level between 2015 and 2024: large hail (reports of one inch in diameter or larger, the National Weather Service severe threshold) and damaging thunderstorm wind (gusts of 50 knots, about 58 miles per hour, or stronger). Over that decade the database logs 70,898 large-hail and 172,439 damaging-wind events across 3,075 counties in 51 states.

A single storm that travels across more than one county is recorded once in each county it touches, so our national figures count county-level events rather than unique storms. Direct deaths (271) and direct injuries (1,487) are combined across both perils and reflect only casualties the National Weather Service attributes directly to the storm.

Counts are grouped by state and recompute on every build; the underlying records cover the years 2015 through 2024. Counties with no qualifying events in that window are omitted, never shown as zero, and a small number of events in U.S. territories are included in the national totals but not assigned to a state.

Frequently asked questions

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