Grand Junction Hail and Wind Storms of 2025 and 2026: Dates and Claims

Short answer: around Grand Junction, wind is the bigger roof risk than hail. NOAA records just one day in 2025 and 2026 with hail of 1 inch or more in Mesa, Garfield, Delta and Montrose counties, June 6, 2025, against 16 days with gusts of 58 mph or stronger. Colorado has no single legal deadline to file a homeowners claim: your policy sets it, often somewhere between six months and two years from the storm date.

The Grand Valley does not get the hail the Front Range does, and the record shows it. What it does get is wind: strong gusts in late winter and spring, and summer and fall thunderstorms that can push a gust past 60 mph with little warning. This page lists the dated hail and damaging wind events on record around Grand Junction, Fruita, Palisade, Rifle, Delta and Montrose in 2025 and 2026, the area our Grand Junction office covers, and then explains how to work out whether a claim for one of those dates is still open to you.

The one damaging hail day: June 6, 2025

On June 6, 2025, NOAA's reviewed records place hail of 1.75 inches at Fruita, and the Storm Prediction Center's first reports that afternoon placed stones of up to 1.75 inches near the Redlands and Orchard Mesa on the edge of Grand Junction. That is golf ball size, comfortably past the roughly one inch, quarter size point where asphalt shingles start to take functional damage, as explained in what size hail damages a roof. No other day in 2025 or 2026 has a 1 inch or larger report in these four counties, though smaller hail fell on several, including near Mack on September 12, 2025.

2026 damaging wind days around Grand Junction

The strongest 2026 event ran overnight from February 16 into February 17, when a sensor at Hallenbeck Reservoir in Mesa County measured 71 mph and the Rifle airport recorded 69 mph. Rifle saw 70 mph again on May 13, 2026, and a 66 mph gust was recorded at the Delta airport on August 30, 2026.

2025 damaging wind days around Grand Junction

Two 2025 days caused damage you could see from the street. On September 12, 2025, thunderstorm winds brought down power lines in Fruita, and the next afternoon another storm knocked out power across the northern part of Grand Junction. The highest measured gust of the year was 71 mph at the Rifle airport on October 4, 2025, when Montrose recorded 64 mph the same morning.

Where these numbers come from, and what they miss

Wind gusts are measured at fixed stations: the Grand Junction, Rifle, Montrose and Delta airports, highway sensors and a handful of remote weather stations. A gust is recorded where the instrument is, not across the whole valley, and a thunderstorm downdraft can hit one neighborhood far harder than the nearest sensor. The same goes for hail, which is reported where a person happened to measure a stone. A town missing from these tables is not a town the storm missed.

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

No single statewide deadline applies to a homeowners wind or hail claim. Your policy sets it. Most Colorado homeowners policies set their own deadline for notifying the carrier, often six months to two years from the storm date, and the longer a claim waits, the harder it is to show the storm caused the damage rather than ordinary wear.

What Colorado law does fix is your time to sue. 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. It does not move the notice deadline in your policy. The full set of Colorado homeowner protections is in our roof insurance claims guide.

How to find your own deadline

1. Check the declarations page for the wind and hail deductible. It often differs from your all-other-perils deductible, and it decides whether a claim is worth filing at all.
2. Find Duties After Loss in the policy conditions. That section sets when and how you must report a loss.
3. Find Suit Against Us. That section sets your time to sue, the clock Colorado protects on homeowner policies.
4. Get the answer in writing. Give your agent the date from the tables above and ask what deadline applies to it.

For the June 6, 2025 hail and the spring 2025 wind events, the arithmetic matters. They are now 17 months old or more. Under a one-year policy window, as some policies have, the window for those dates has already passed. Under a two-year window it runs into 2027. Your policy, not this page, decides which applies.

Wind-damaged slopes and the Mesa County rule

Wind tends to damage part of a roof, often one slope facing the prevailing gust, which raises the question of whether that slope gets repaired or replaced. In Mesa County that question has a written answer, covered in when Mesa County requires a roof replacement instead of a repair. Our Grand Junction office inspects roofs across the Grand Valley, Rifle, Delta and Montrose for free, photographs lifted and creased shingles up close, and tells you whether the damage is worth a claim. You can book a free roof inspection online.

Sources: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information Storm Events Database (2025, and 2026 through July) and NOAA Storm Prediction Center local storm reports (August to October 2026, marked preliminary), retrieved November 3, 2026. Hail: reports of 1 inch or larger in Mesa, Garfield, Delta and Montrose counties. Wind: gusts of 58 mph or stronger in those counties and their National Weather Service forecast zones.

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