Hail Repair in Harrisonville, MO
Harrisonville logs little hail, but a lot of it is big. See the NOAA record, the July 2023 storm and what PDR can and cannot fix.
Harrisonville logs less hail than its neighbors, and bigger hail than most of them. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) logged 44 reports of hail at 1 inch or larger within 10 miles of Harrisonville from 2010 to 2025. Belton, the smallest file in the 20 city metro record, holds one more. Yet five of Harrisonville's reports reached baseball size. The largest was a 5.0 inch stone on July 17, 2023. If your car sits outside in Cass County, a short file is no reason to relax.
Five reports, all baseball size
July 17, 2023, is the day that sets Harrisonville apart. Five reports came in near town that day. Every one of them was baseball size or larger, 2.75 inches and up, led by the 5.0 inch stone. They are the only baseball reports in Harrisonville's file. July holds six reports in all. The sixth came on July 11, 2010, at golf ball size.
Neighbors caught the same day with smaller stones. Belton and Raymore logged three reports each, topping out at 3.0 inches. Lee's Summit logged two, also at 3.0 inches. No city in this data logged a stone that day as big as Harrisonville's.
Only one day in the metro data brought a bigger stone. September 18, 2010, brought 5.5 inch hail to Blue Springs, Grain Valley, Independence, Lee's Summit and Raytown. Harrisonville logged two golf ball reports that day.
Hail of 5 inches does more than dent a panel. It can break paint, glass and lights too. The dents beside that damage can often still come out with PDR, while the broken parts and paint go to other repairs.
More than a third golf ball
Golf ball size, 1.75 inches and up, accounts for 16 of Harrisonville's 44 reports. They fell on eight of its 19 hail days. That is more than a third of the file. No city in the 20 city metro record posts a higher golf ball share, though Lee's Summit comes close.
Those eight golf ball days hold 32 of the 44 reports. The other 11 hail days hold just 12 between them. So when hail does reach Harrisonville in this record, it is often big.
June 18, 2011, brought five reports, topping out at 2.25 inches. Blue Springs, Grain Valley, Independence, Lee's Summit and Raytown logged one report apiece that day. March 27, 2014, also brought five, at golf ball size. June 7, 2024, added three reports with stones to 2 inches. Raymore logged four that day and Belton two. It is the latest hail day on file near Harrisonville.
February at the top
February holds 10 of Harrisonville's reports, more than any other month. Nine of them came on a single day, February 28, 2017, with stones to 2.5 inches. Blue Springs and Grain Valley logged golf ball hail that day too, four reports and three. No city in the 20 city metro record logs more than four February reports.
June comes next with eight. March and May hold seven each, and July six. April, a busy month across much of the metro, holds only two. September and October hold two apiece. August, November, December and January show none.
So the risk here runs from late winter into midsummer instead of crowding into spring. Do not assume a February forecast is safe for a car parked outside.
Harrisonville, the Cass County seat
Harrisonville is the county seat of Cass County. Interstate 49 runs past town and heads north through Peculiar toward Belton and Kansas City. Pleasant Hill lies to the north as well. Raymore sits about 12 miles north, with Belton beyond it.
Peculiar and Pleasant Hill have no pages here, so their counts stay folded into the wider picture. The crew drives to cars in both towns, as it does in Harrisonville itself. A dented car does not need to make the trip up Interstate 49 first.
Raymore and Belton each have their own page, and both took 3.0 inch hail on July 17, 2023.
Big stones and the estimate
At the estimate, every dent gets a size and a place on the panel. Dents where the paint cracked or chipped go on their own list, with the reason beside each one. So do dents with stretched metal, which harder hits are more likely to leave. What PDR cannot fix walks through each case. If part of the car needs a body shop, PDR or a body shop explains how the two kinds of repair split the work. Hail is a comprehensive claim, so ask your carrier how it applies your deductible. Call for a free assessment.
Hail within 10 miles of Harrisonville
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center hail reports, retrieved October 7, 2026. The 2025 file is SPC's file for the current year, and it can still be revised. A report is one observation, not one storm.
Hail Repair Questions in Harrisonville
A count shows how often hail was logged, not how hard it hit. Harrisonville's file is small, but 16 of its 44 reports reached golf ball size. Five were baseball size or larger, all from July 17, 2023. A low count can also reflect fewer people around to report what falls. Either way, the big stones are on the record, and they are recent.
February leads the calendar here, but one day built that lead. On February 28, 2017, nine reports came in near Harrisonville, with stones to 2.5 inches. February holds ten reports in all. Treat that as a warning rather than a season. June, March, May and July hold six to eight reports apiece, and together they carry far more of the risk.
Not on this site. The figures here come from a circle around one point in Harrisonville, so towns to the north sit near its edge or past it. Raymore and Belton, farther north, have pages with records of their own. If your car is parked in Pleasant Hill or Peculiar, the crew still comes to it, and the assessment is free.
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