A powerful severe thunderstorm and hailstorm struck the Denver metro area on Monday afternoon, June 1, 2026, dumping golf ball-sized hail, triggering tornado and flash flood warnings, and causing widespread traffic and airport delays.

This storm obviously caused damage with hail stones ranging in size from a quarter to golf ball size.  This resulted in damaged car windshields, hoods, roofs and fenders. 

These same hailstones also damaged roofs, gutters, fascia, soffits and siding, on homes and businesses, which you may not notice. 

This often will result in an insurance claim.

It can also result in an insurance claim denial if you do not protect your interests.  Insurance companies sometimes will claim that hail did not hit your home.  Some may claim that the hailstone was not big enough to do any damage to your home.  

It is likely that you will not have immediate leaks in your residential roof after a hailstorm.  Those hailstone have hit your roof at 9-100 miles per hour.  The bigger the stone--the faster is falls from the sky.   You may just dismiss this as nothing. 

However, those hailstones, crashing into your roof at a high rate of speed, have likely damaged the interior fiberglass matting on your asphalt shingles.  Over the next three to six months as your roof heats and cools from the afternoon sun, the damaged fiberglass matting will expand and contract.  This will then cause the shingle to leak.  

Here's what to do immediately after a hailstorm to help protect your interests:

1.  While the storm is going on, stay safe and do not put yourself in any danger.  

2.  If possible take a video of the hailstones coming down.  You can remain indoors or on a covered porch and take the video through a window or door.  A contineous video up to about 45 seconds long that shows the hail stones coming down will help with your claim and prove the hailstones actually came down on YOUR property.

3.  If possible pick up a few of the hailstones and put them in a plastic storage bag and put them in your freezer.  When your adjuster arrives in a few days, this will allow him/her to actually measure the hailstones and take a picture to help prove your damages.  

4.  Upload your buildback estimate to insuranceclaim123.com to verify that you are not being underpaid.

5.  If do not currently have and need a public adjuster, please reach out to us at: customercare@insuranceclaim.123.com and we will help locate one for you.