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Storm light over El Paso County rooftops — the county whose 1,552 recorded hail events make it one of Colorado's most claim-active roofing territories.
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El Paso County is hail country, and this page is its index: the record, the towns and the way in.
NOAA logged 1,552 hail events in El Paso County from 1995 to 2024, with a largest stone of 4.5 inches. Every town below has its own page — its own ZIPs, data and nearby-town comparisons — and one free number reaches a local pro in any of them, around the clock for emergencies.
El Paso County's key figures in one strip — storm history, size, and the towns this site serves within it. The county in numbers: the hail record, the population, the towns covered here, and the seat that keeps its records.
1,552
Hail events in El Paso County, 1995–2024
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
4.5 in
Largest hail recorded in El Paso County
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
742,999
Residents of El Paso County
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024
12
El Paso County towns covered on this page
This service
Colorado Springs
El Paso County seat
El Paso County
30 yrs
Of NOAA hail records behind this page
NOAA NCEI Storm Events
12 communities, 12 different roof stories — pick yours for its own hail data, housing numbers and ZIP list.
Hail rarely stops at the shingles. The same storm that bruises a roof in El Paso County dents gutters, splits siding and starts leaks, so the six services below are the ones local pros are called for most after a storm here.
Pros check the deck, fit new underlayment and ice-and-water shield, then install shingles rated for Colorado hail, all in the right order for a claim file. A pro measures every slope first and talks through materials, Class 4 impact-resistant options and cost factors before any work is booked in El.
📞 Call NowFixing the gutter line also protects siding, walkways and the soil line, which all suffer when roof water dumps in the wrong place every storm. Gutter damage is strong claim evidence, because bent metal records the storm's direction and stone size in a way shingles alone sometimes cannot show.
📞 Call NowSlope-by-slope hit counts, not impressions, are what the report leads with — the numbers the claim will be argued from on both sides. The report separates storm damage from wear and old repairs, which is the same distinction your insurer's adjuster will draw standing on the same roof.
📞 Call NowFast repairs stop a small entry point from rotting decking and insulation, which is where a cheap fix quietly turns into a structural bill later. Temporary patches are photographed and kept on file, and the permanent repair builds on the same evidence once the roof is dry enough to work.
📞 Call NowWhen hail crushes long runs beyond straightening, replacement is the honest fix: new sections, correct pitch, sealed corners and downspouts that drain clear. New gutters are often fitted during roof work, when the crew, materials and claim documentation are already on site and the scaffolding is already up.
📞 Call NowA pro matches the profile and colour as closely as the product lines allow, replaces the broken panels and checks the wrap and flashing behind them. Hailstones big enough to bruise shingles also crack vinyl siding, dent fibre-cement and chip paint on the storm-facing walls of El Paso County homes.
📞 Call NowWhy roofs in El Paso County live the lives they do: the storm record, the spread of towns under it, the housing those towns hold, and the winter that follows every hail season.
Put the county's record in state context: 1,552 hail events in El Paso County across 30 years, the largest stone 4.5 inches. Calhan is not an outlier street or an unlucky subdivision — it is one town inside a county-sized pattern that NOAA has been logging since 1995. Roofs here are not occasionally tested by hail; they are on a schedule of tests, and the only choice is whether each test is documented when it happens.
The county seat is Colorado Springs, and the towns on this page run from valley floors to high settlements — every one of them inside the same storm system. Afternoon cells build over the ranges and move; the county's 1,552 recorded events are the sum of those passages, town by town, year by year. Altitude changes the details — thinner air, stronger sun, deeper winters — but no town in El Paso County sits outside the pattern. El Paso County sits in the Front Range corridor known as Hail Alley, where the state's hail season runs hardest.
Across the county's towns, the pattern repeats: older homes with roofs in every stage of life, newer subdivisions with architectural shingles, and barns, shops and outbuildings under metal and older coverings. Owner-occupiers make most of the repair decisions, and the claim route — inspection, documentation, adjuster, scope — is the same in every town, which is why each town page follows the same structure with its own numbers.
The climate normals tell the winter half of the story: roughly 31.3 inches of snow a year near Calhan and 180.6 freezing nights, measured at Rush 1N. Snow load sits on hail-weakened decks for weeks. Every thaw sends water into storm damage the summer inspection may have called minor, and every freeze widens it. Calhan roofs do not get to heal between seasons — they get tested.
Materials earn their keep differently at this elevation. Standard asphalt shingles are the baseline; Class 4 impact-resistant shingles buy real odds against the next big stone, and some insurers price that in. Underneath, ice & water shield at the eaves guards the freeze line, while starter strips and closed valleys handle the wind-driven rain that rides in with hail. Add the county's snow load on top and the specification nearly writes itself — the pro's job is matching it to your roof's pitch, age and exposure.
Ask any El Paso County roofer and they will describe the same calendar: quiet winters, a first hail scare in May, the heavy weeks of June and July, then a tapering August. The smart maintenance calendar mirrors it — gutters cleared and flashing checked in spring, storm damage documented and repaired in summer, and everything watertight before the first freeze. Homeowners who run that cycle replace roofs on their own schedule; everyone else replaces them on the weather's. The freeze-thaw cycle does the slow work in between.
An ice dam forms when meltwater refreezes at the cold eave and creeps back under shingles — a winter leak that starts on a warm roof.
El Paso County Snapshot
Largest County Hail: 4.5 in
Share of Colorado's 5.25 in state record · NOAA NCEI 1995–2024
County Hail Events: 1,552
Against El Paso County's state-high 1,552 · NOAA NCEI 1995–2024
Cities Served In County: 12
Each with its own data page on this site
County Population: 742,999
U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimates
County-level answers: the hail record, claims, permits and materials, with town-level detail on each town's own page.
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