What is my Risk for Hail Damage?

11/12/2021 (Permalink)

This map shows your risk for loss from Hail. (Note, this is unrelated for your risk of hailing a taxi! That would be red mostly in NYC!)

Water is a beautiful molecule. It sustains all life on earth, it refreshes, it cleanses, it supports us.

However, when water freezes into a block of ice the size of a softball and falls from the top of a cumulonimbus cloud down on your home, it’s a bit less beautiful.

You might wonder what your risk of hail damage is. There’s not much you can do to stop a block of ice the size of a grapefruit from falling on your house if it decides to fall on your house, but you can at least get an idea of what to expect as far as damages go in your county.

Luckily, our friends at FEMA put together a map showing expected loss for each county in our great nation, and we found it. It’s attached to this post, but you can also see it for yourself here: https://hazards.fema.gov/nri/hail

Thankfully, it doesn’t seem like we in the Cabarrus County area are at too much risk--in fact, we might even be at the lowest risk!

So that’s a bit of some positive news to help you get through your day.