Hail Repair in Platte City, MO
Platte City's largest stone fell in August, and its latest hail came in October. See the NOAA record, the fall pattern and what PDR can fix.
Platte City's biggest hail fell in late summer, and it appears in the record as a single report. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) logged a 4.5 inch stone within 10 miles of Platte City on August 19, 2011. No other report of 1 inch or larger came in near town that day. In the 20 city metro record, only five cities show a bigger stone, all from September 18, 2010. One report is still a real hit. For a car parked in Platte County, it marks how large the hail here can get.
Three days at baseball size
From 2010 to 2025, SPC logged 81 reports of 1 inch hail or larger near Platte City. They came on 38 days. A report notes hail seen at one place, sized by the largest stone, and many of those sizes are estimates. None of these figures counts storms.
Golf ball size, 1.75 inches and up, makes up 20 of the reports, on 11 days. Four reached baseball size, 2.75 inches or more, and they fell on three days. April 30, 2010, and June 19, 2011, each topped out at 3.0 inches. The third was the 4.5 inch day in August 2011.
The 11 golf ball days hold 39 of the 81 reports. The other 42 are spread across 27 days.
May 18, 2017, brought seven reports, topping out at golf ball size. No golf ball day in Platte City's file has more. April 8, 2015, and October 1, 2014, brought six apiece. The April day peaked at 2.25 inches, and Parkville and Kansas City, Kansas, logged six as well. Both 3.0 inch days brought four reports. April 30, 2010, is also the day Parkville logged its own record, a 3.0 inch stone.
Platte City's latest golf ball day on file is May 24, 2020, when two reports came in. Every report since then has stayed under 1.75 inches. On May 19, 2025, for example, four reports landed near town, the largest at 1.25 inches.
April and May, dead even
April and May tie at the top of Platte City's calendar, with 22 reports each. June and August add nine apiece. September and October hold eight each, and July three.
March shows none at all. Every one of the 20 metro cities logged some March hail. Near Platte City, the month is blank, and so are November through February.
Fall is where Platte City stands apart. August through October hold 25 of the 81 reports, close to a third. No city in the 20 city metro record logged more than four October reports. Platte City logged eight. Leavenworth, Kansas, across the river, logged nine.
Six of those October reports came on October 1, 2014, with stones to 2 inches. Leavenworth logged seven that day. The latest 1 inch day near Platte City is October 18, 2025, the latest date in any city's file here. Leavenworth shares that date too. SPC can still revise its 2025 file, so treat that last entry as provisional.
If your car parks outside here, then, keep watching the sky well past June.
Parked at KCI while away
Kansas City International Airport (KCI) sits about five miles southeast of the point in Platte City that these counts are measured from. So hail that reaches the airport can land in Platte City's file.
Plenty of cars sit in open lots there for days while their owners travel. A storm can come and go before you land. You may only find the dents when you walk back out to the car.
When that happens, the dates you were gone matter. Your carrier will ask when the loss occurred, and the SPC dates can help you pin it down. Take photos in the lot before you drive home. Then the crew comes to the car wherever it ends up parked.
The Platte County seat
Platte City is the county seat of Platte County. Interstate 29 runs past town on its way north from Kansas City. Weston lies to the northwest, near the Missouri River. Leavenworth, Kansas, sits about nine miles west, across the river. Parkville lies about ten miles south, also in Platte County.
Weston has no page on this site, so its count is not broken out here. The crew still drives to cars there, the same as in Platte City. Parkville, with more hail days than any city in the 20 city metro record, has a page of its own.
What the estimate names
Stones of 4.5 inches can crack paint, glass and lights as well as dent the metal. Any dent where the paint broke goes on a separate list at the estimate, because PDR moves metal but cannot repair paint. What PDR cannot fix covers each case that can land there. A hail claim is comprehensive, not collision. Your policy sets the deductible, which your carrier then applies. For how coverage works on both sides of the state line, read does insurance cover hail damage. Call for a free assessment.
Hail within 10 miles of Platte 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 Platte City
Not by report count. It is the only report of 1 inch hail or larger near Platte City on August 19, 2011. Leavenworth, across the river, shows a 4.5 inch report that day too. A report records what one observer saw at one spot. Hail that size can still fall across ground where nobody was watching, so one report can stand for more damage than it shows.
Start with the dates you were away, because your carrier will ask when the damage happened. Photograph the car in the lot before you drive it home. Then call your carrier about a comprehensive claim. Once the car is back at your place, the crew comes to it there. The free assessment gives you a dent count and a list of any dents that may not come out.
Mostly because of one day. Six of its eight October reports came on October 1, 2014, with stones to 2 inches. The latest 1 inch day on file, October 18, 2025, stayed below golf ball size. Two fall days do not turn October into a peak month. They do show that hail near Platte City can arrive long after spring has passed.
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