What the record says
NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information logged 382 hail reports across the three counties we work in most — Hays (48), Travis (142) and Williamson (192) — between 1 January 2019 and 1 September 2026. That is the Storm Events Database, the same dataset an adjuster's desk tools are built on, and it is free for anyone to search.
Williamson County carries half the reports on its own. If you live in Cedar Park, Leander, Round Rock, Georgetown or Hutto, you are in the densest part of that record, and a roof installed before 2019 has probably been under at least one of those days.
What the record is not
Point reports, not storm paths. Each row in that database is a single observation at a single location, usually a person who rang it in or a trained spotter who measured a stone. A report logged near a town does not mean the whole town was hit, and it certainly does not mean your street was. Hail falls in narrow, uneven corridors: one side of a road can be stripped and the other side untouched.
Reported size is not damage. A 1.75-inch stone falling at an angle onto a six-year-old roof does something very different from the same stone hitting a twenty-year-old one, or a metal one, or a Class 4 one. Wind direction at the moment of impact matters more than most people expect.
Absence is not safety. A day with no report is a day nobody reported, not a day nothing fell. The database is built from human observations, and rural blocks generate fewer of them.
What to do with it
Use it as a prompt, not as a conclusion. If a notable day is close to something you remember — a night the roof was loud, a bent gutter, a dented AC fin — that is a reason to have somebody get on the roof and photograph it. It is not a reason to file.
The order matters after a storm: get the roof documented first, then decide whether a claim is worth filing at all. A claim on a roof that will not total can leave you with the claim on your record and no new roof. The inspection and the written photo report cost nothing and you keep the report either way, which is what makes that order affordable.