Hail Repair in Kansas City, KS
On March 13, 2024, hail up to 3.5 inches hit Kansas City, Kansas. Here is what NOAA logged, and which dents paintless repair can actually remove.
A stone of 3.5 inches is the high mark for Kansas City, Kansas, and it fell on March 13, 2024. That is the largest size in NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) data within 10 miles of the city from 2010 to 2025. The same day produced 17 separate reports of hail 1 inch or larger. If your car sat outside in Wyandotte County that day, the roof and hood likely show it. This page walks through what SPC recorded around KCK, the days that did the most harm and the riskiest months. It also explains what paintless dent repair can fix after stones that size, and where it falls short. You should know both before anyone touches the car.
Big hail, crowded days
Across 2010 to 2025, SPC counted 173 reports of 1 inch hail or larger around Kansas City, Kansas. Those reports fell on 45 different days. Keep in mind what a report is. It logs one sighting of hail at the biggest size seen, and that size is often a judgment by eye. One storm can generate a dozen reports, and a storm nobody sees generates none.
Golf ball size hail, 1.75 inches across, makes up 39 of the 173. It came on 11 days. Overland Park, down in Johnson County, logged twice as many golf ball days over the same years. So KCK sees big hail less often than some suburbs to the south. When it does arrive, the days tend to be crowded with reports.
Baseball size hail, 2.75 inches and up, shows up only twice in the KCK file. Both reports came on March 13, 2024. No other day near the city reached that size in 16 years of data.
The most recent day with 1 inch hail was September 16, 2025. SPC still treats its 2025 file as open to revision, so that entry could change. The metro hail history sets KCK beside the other 19 cities in the data.
Eight weeks in spring 2024
First on the list is March 13, 2024. Stones reached 3.5 inches, and 17 reports landed in range of the city. Twelve of the 20 metro cities in the data logged 1 inch hail that day.
Eight weeks later, on May 8, 2024, another 17 reports came in. The stones were smaller this time, topping out at 2 inches. The footprint was wider, though, with 14 metro cities logging hail. Within those eight weeks of 2024, KCK had its two busiest golf ball days on file.
On September 16, 2025, seven more reports came in, the largest at golf ball size. That storm day reached 15 of the 20 cities.
One gap is worth knowing. On April 3, 2011, hail reached 19 of the 20 cities. Kansas City, Kansas, was the only one with no 1 inch report.
May outweighs March and April combined
May carries this city's calendar. It holds 65 of the 173 reports, one more than March and April combined. April follows with 36, and March adds 28. June and September each hold 17.
The middle of summer is close to empty. July shows two reports and August shows seven. From October through February, the file has a single report, in December.
Put together, March through May account for 129 reports, about three in every four. If you park on the street or in an open lot, those three months are when a covered spot pays off. A car left uncovered in May is taking the biggest risk on the calendar.
Around Kansas City, Kansas
Kansas City, Kansas, shares one unified government with Wyandotte County. The Kansas River runs through the city on its way to the Missouri. Interstate 70, Interstate 635 and Interstate 435 all cross it. Shawnee sits south across the Kansas River, and Kansas City, Missouri, lies east.
You do not need to drive a car with hail damage across town, since the crew can assess it in a lot off Interstate 70. Every other city the crew covers is on the service areas page.
Before you call
Write down the date the hail fell and where the car was parked. Stand at the side of the car and look across the roof in low light. Dents show up as small shadows that break the reflection. Count what you can, then let the estimate count the rest. That is where you hear which dents will come out and which will not. Paint cracked by a stone the size of the March 13 hail is one case PDR may not fully fix. The full list of limits is worth two minutes. Then call for a free assessment.
Hail within 10 miles of Kansas City
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 Kansas City
SPC logged 17 reports of 1 inch hail or larger in range of the city that day, the largest at 3.5 inches. A report marks one spot where someone saw hail and sent it in. It does not trace the edge of the storm. A street with no report may still have taken hail. Your own roof is the better test, so check it along the rails in angled light.
Some of them, and you should hear the split before any work starts. Stones that large tend to leave deep dents, and some crack the paint. Cracked or chipped paint, stretched metal and sharp creases may not come out fully. The same goes for dents on a panel edge or a braced seam. Each dent on your car gets sorted into one group or the other at the estimate.
No. Hail goes under comprehensive coverage, the part of a policy for damage from things other than a crash. Collision is a separate coverage for crashes. Your policy sets the deductible, and your carrier decides what it pays on the claim. Carriers differ on the details, so ask yours how it handles hail before you file. Drivers on both sides of the state line file hail the same way.
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