Denver Hail Storms of 2025 and 2026: Dates and Your Claim Window

Short answer: NOAA storm records show 32 days in 2025 and 21 days so far in 2026 with hail of 1 inch or larger reported in the counties around Denver. The biggest was 3.4 inches near Cedar Point in Elbert County on June 8, 2026. Colorado has no single legal deadline to file a homeowners hail claim: your policy sets it, often somewhere between six months and two years from the storm date.

If your roof, gutters or car took a beating at some point in the last two summers, the first thing an insurance claim asks for is the date of loss. This page lists every day in 2025 and 2026 when hail of 1 inch or more was reported in Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson, Douglas, Boulder, Broomfield, Weld, Larimer, El Paso and Elbert counties, the area our Denver office covers, and then explains how to work out whether a claim for that date is still open to you.

Why 1 inch is the line

On asphalt shingles, functional damage typically starts around one inch, quarter size, and becomes likely at one and a quarter inches and above. It is a threshold rather than a guarantee: wind-driven hail and older shingles can be damaged by smaller stones, which is covered in more detail in what size hail damages a roof. Smaller events are left out here so the list stays useful.

2026 hail days of 1 inch or more around Denver

Two days stand out for the metro. On June 1, 2026, hail of 1.75 inches was reported in Denver itself and near Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, with stones up to 2 inches near Bennett and reports in Byers and Highlands Ranch. A week later, on June 8, 2026, storms dropped 1 inch and larger hail near Arvada, Golden and Edgewater on the west side, while the day's largest stone, 3.4 inches, fell near Cedar Point on the Elbert County plains. Late summer brought a run of smaller storms through the southeast metro, including reports near Foxfield, Centennial and Englewood in mid-August.

2025 hail days of 1 inch or more around Denver

The broadest 2025 storm was June 17, 2025: hail of 1 inch or more reported in eight of these counties in a single afternoon, from Colorado Springs north through Henderson and Eaton, with the largest stone, 2.75 inches, near Johnstown. July 6, 2025 reached 2 inches in Colorado Springs and also produced reports in Denver itself. Several of the largest 2025 stones, including 3 inches on August 9, fell on the open plains of Elbert and eastern El Paso counties rather than in the metro.

A town missing from the list does not mean it missed the storm

Every report in these tables was filed where a trained spotter, a member of the public or an automated station happened to be. Hail swaths are often miles wide, and the places named are where somebody measured a stone, not the edge of the damage. If your home sits between two reported towns on one of these dates, that date can still be your date of loss. Photos you took that day, with a coin next to a stone, help tie the damage to it.

Is there a deadline to file a hail claim in Colorado?

There is no single statewide deadline for opening a homeowners hail claim. The deadline is in your policy. Most Colorado homeowners policies set their own deadline for notifying the carrier, often six months to two years from the storm date. The longer you wait, the harder it becomes to prove the storm caused the damage, because a roof keeps weathering after the hail has stopped.

Colorado does protect one thing by statute. C.R.S. 10-4-110.8(12) means a homeowner's policy issued or renewed after January 1, 2014 cannot require you to sue in less time than the statute of limitations allows. That protects your right to take a disputed claim to court. It does not extend the notice deadline in your policy, which is a separate clock. The rest of the Colorado rules, from the deductible ban to your 72-hour right to rescind a roofing contract, are laid out in our roof insurance claims guide.

How to find your own deadline

1. Skip the declarations page for this one. It shows your deductibles and limits, which matter, but the deadline usually lives in the policy conditions further back.
2. Look for Duties After Loss. That section, or one with a similar name, sets out when and how you must tell the carrier about a loss.
3. Look for Suit Against Us. That section sets the time limit for a lawsuit, the clock C.R.S. 10-4-110.8(12) protects on homeowner policies.
4. Ask in writing if it is unclear. Give your agent the storm date from the tables above and ask what deadline applies to it. A written answer is worth keeping with your photos.

One point of arithmetic. The June 2025 storms above are now about 17 months old. Under a policy with a one-year window, as some have, that window has already passed for those dates. Under a two-year window, it runs to mid-2027. Your policy, not this page, decides which applies. If you are unsure what your policy says about wind and hail more generally, reading your homeowners policy before hail walks through the deductible and coverage sections.

Not sure whether a storm damaged your roof?

Hail damage on shingles is hard to judge from the ground, and a roof can look fine from the driveway with bruised mats underneath the granules. Our Denver office inspects roofs across these counties for free, photographs what we find, and tells you whether the damage is worth a claim, including when it is smaller than your deductible. You can book a free roof inspection online, and if a claim is already open, what to expect when the adjuster visits covers the next step.

Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Storm Events Database (2025, and 2026 through July) and NOAA Storm Prediction Center local storm reports (2026 dates not yet in that database, marked preliminary), retrieved November 3, 2026. Counts include only hail of 1 inch or larger reported in the eleven counties named above.

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