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Hail and wind events in Maricopa County by year
How often the National Weather Service logged damaging hail and thunderstorm wind in Maricopa County in each of the last ten years, from the NOAA Storm Events Database.
The NOAA Storm Events Database logged 22 to 122 thunderstorm wind reports and 0 to 25 hail reports a year in Maricopa County from 2016 to 2025. The strongest measured gust was about 100 mph in 2022. The largest hail was 2.00 inches, also in 2022. Most reports fall in July and August. Compiled by 10X Roofing Advantage.
TL;DR
Wind is the everyday roof threat in Maricopa County. Hail is rarer but it does happen, and it does not need to be large to mark a foam or shingle roof.
- Busiest wind years: 2022 (122 reports), 2018 (120) and 2021 (100)
- Most hail reports: 2025 (25) and 2021 (19). 2017 had none
- Strongest measured gust: about 100 mph in 2022. Several years topped 85 mph
- Largest hail: 2.00 inches (2022). Hail of 1.75 inches fell in 2018, 2021 and 2025
- A report is one logged observation, not one storm. One big storm can produce dozens
Storm reports in Maricopa County, 2016 to 2025
| Year | Thunderstorm wind reports | Hail reports | Largest hail (inches) | Strongest gust (mph) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 22 | 3 | 0.75 | 89 |
| 2017 | 46 | 0 | none | 83 |
| 2018 | 120 | 13 | 1.75 | 90 |
| 2019 | 26 | 14 | 1.25 | 75 |
| 2020 | 29 | 2 | 0.88 | 81 |
| 2021 | 100 | 19 | 1.75 | 83 |
| 2022 | 122 | 12 | 2.00 | 100 |
| 2023 | 71 | 4 | 1.00 | 90 |
| 2024 | 64 | 6 | 1.25 | 75 |
| 2025 | 59 | 25 | 1.75 | 90 |
Counts are county-level Hail and Thunderstorm Wind events in the NOAA Storm Events Database. Gusts are the strongest measured or estimated wind magnitude in that year's entries, converted from knots and rounded.
About this dataset
The table above is a dataset. These fields describe it.
- Dataset
- Maricopa County hail and thunderstorm wind events, 2016 to 2025
- What it covers
- Annual counts of Hail and Thunderstorm Wind events, largest hail size and strongest wind magnitude recorded for Maricopa County, Arizona, in the NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database.
- Source
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
- Period
- 2016-01-01/2025-12-31
- Area
- Maricopa County, Arizona
- Updated
- November 5, 2026
- Source link
- https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/
What this means for your roof
Monsoon outflow winds of 60 to 100 mph lift ridge tiles, rake tiles and shingle tabs. The tile may land back close to where it was and still leave the underlayment exposed.
Hail of one inch or more dents vents, cracks tile, and bruises shingle and foam coating. The marks are easy to miss from the ground.
After a storm, photograph the roof from the ground and inside the house, then have a roofer document it from the roof before anyone repairs it. The Arizona Department of Insurance advises calling your insurer before repairs begin.
How to read the numbers
A report is one logged observation at one place and time. 122 wind reports in 2022 does not mean 122 storms.
Many damaging gusts are never measured by an instrument, so the true peak winds were higher than the table shows. Dust storms are counted on our monsoon page, not here.
Sources
- NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, search interface: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/
- NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, bulk detail files used (StormEvents_details-ftp_v1.0_d2016 through d2025): https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/pub/data/swdi/stormevents/csvfiles/
- NWS Phoenix, 2023 Monsoon Season Review (September 12, 2023 wind damage; August 31, 2023 dust storm): https://www.weather.gov/psr/2023MonsoonSeasonReview
- NWS Phoenix, 2024 Monsoon Season Review (July 24, 2024 Phoenix microburst): https://www.weather.gov/psr/2024MonsoonSeasonReview
- Arizona Department of Insurance and Financial Institutions, Homeowners Insurance: https://difi.az.gov/consumers/homeowners-insurance
- Accessed November 5, 2026.
Compiled by the 10X Roofing Advantage team, Glendale, AZ, from the public sources listed below. Reviewed by {{REVIEWER}}. Published {{PUBLISHED}}. Last updated {{UPDATED}}. Data as of November 5, 2026. 10X Roofing Advantage is licensed under Arizona ROC #355299 and has roofed in Phoenix for 20 years.