Colorado Hail Storm Report, June 23, 2026: Colorado Springs, Fountain and Wiggins

Hail-producing storms worked Colorado in three rounds on June 23, 2026. The National Weather Service logged 24 hail reports inside Red Hawk’s service area that day, the largest at 3.00 inches at Wiggins. Colorado Springs took hail through the afternoon, Fountain took a measured 2.50 inch stone at 6:00 PM, and the evening storm hammered Wiggins.

The Colorado hail map — June 23, 2026

Every hail report in Red Hawk’s service area

These are National Weather Service Local Storm Reports — hail an observer found on the ground, not a radar estimate. Times are MDT.

By city: Colorado Springs 11 reports, Wiggins 9 reports, Fountain 2 reports, Black Forest 1 report, Pueblo 1 report. The Colorado Springs reports ran 4:19 to 5:23 PM, Fountain’s measured 2.50 inch stone landed at 6:00 PM, the Wiggins cluster ran 8:50 to 9:57 PM, and a final report came in near Pueblo at 11:27 PM. A hail report always names the largest stone an observer found, not the average size that fell across every roof.

Why 3.00-inch hail matters to an asphalt roof

Damage scales hard with stone size. A one-inch stone falls at about 41 mph and lands with roughly 1.3 joules of energy. A 1.75 inch stone falls at about 65 mph and lands with roughly 16 joules — about thirteen times the impact. Denver-area elevation adds another 8 to 10 percent to fall speed.

Published impact studies put the onset of functional damage near 1.00 inch for three-tab asphalt shingles, 1.25 inches for architectural shingles, and 2.00 inches for Class 4 impact-rated products. The largest report on this day was 3.00 inches at Wiggins, and Fountain’s measured 2.50 inch stone was also past the threshold for even Class 4 impact-rated products.

The damage usually is not visible from the ground. Hail bruises the shingle — fracturing the mat beneath a surface that still looks intact — and the bruised area then sheds its protective granules over the following months. A roof hit in June can look fine all summer and start leaking by winter.

Radar-estimated hail is not measured hail

Radar hail algorithms output a deliberate high-end estimate of what may exist inside a storm cloud, not a measurement of what landed on your roof. Radar estimates characteristically run above what observers actually recover. Treat the shaded swath on the map as the search area and the ground reports as the confirmed observations. If a contractor tells you radar showed three-inch hail at your address, ask whether anyone measured it.

What to do if you were under it

1. Check from the ground, not the roof. Walking a hail-struck roof is how people get hurt.
2. Look in your gutters. Granules washing off in quantity is the most common early sign.
3. Check soft metal. Roof vents, gutters, flashing, the mailbox, AC condenser fins. Dents in soft metal date the storm.
4. Photograph what you find with your phone. Phone photos carry a timestamp. Do not edit them.
5. Get it inspected. Especially if this storm was months ago — that is exactly when bruising starts to surface.

Radar estimate and ground reports by city — June 23, 2026

The map above is the search area. This table asks two narrower questions for each Red Hawk service-area city: did any NWS ground report come from inside the city’s actual boundary, whatever locality name the NWS filed it under; and did a radar-estimated hail band of 1.00 inch or larger cross that boundary? A ground report is an observation and always lists the city. The band is an MRMS estimate, not a measurement.

Radar estimated hail to 2.75 inches over part of Wiggins (about 89 percent of it, in its north part). On the ground, four National Weather Service hail reports came from inside the Wiggins city limits, the largest 3.00 inches (reported). Five more reports naming Wiggins (“2 E Wiggins”, “2 E Wiggins”, “Wiggins”, “1 SSW Wiggins”, “1 SSW Wiggins”) came from outside that boundary.

Radar estimated hail to 2.00 inches over part of Peyton (about 20 percent of it, in its northwest part). No ground observer reported from Peyton that day — reports come from where people happen to be, and their absence is not evidence that nothing fell.

Radar estimated hail to 2.00 inches over part of the Falcon area (ZIP 80831) (about 3 percent of it, in its northeast part). No ground observer reported from the Falcon area (ZIP 80831) that day — reports come from where people happen to be, and their absence is not evidence that nothing fell.

Radar estimated hail to 2.00 inches over part of Pueblo (about 2 percent of it, in its east part); the 1.00 inch band covered about 29 percent of it. On the ground, one National Weather Service hail report came from inside the Pueblo city limits: 1.50 inches (measured).

Radar estimated hail to 2.00 inches over part of Fountain (less than 1 percent of it, in its east part); the 1.00 inch band covered about 8 percent of it. On the ground, one National Weather Service hail report came from inside the Fountain city limits: 2.50 inches (measured). One more report naming Fountain (“4 NE Fountain”) came from outside that boundary.

Radar estimated hail to 2.00 inches over part of Colorado Springs (less than 1 percent of it, in its southeast part); the 1.00 inch band covered about 2 percent of it. On the ground, 13 National Weather Service hail reports came from inside the Colorado Springs city limits, the largest 1.75 inches (measured). Two of them were logged by the NWS under the locality names “3 SW Peterson AFB” and “2 S Peterson AFB”.

Radar estimated hail to 1.50 inches over part of Black Forest (less than 1 percent of it, in its northeast part); the 1.00 inch band covered about 4 percent of it. On the ground, one National Weather Service hail report came from inside the Black Forest city limits: 1.00 inch (measured).

Radar estimated hail to 1.00 inch over part of Security-Widefield (less than 1 percent of it, in its east part). On the ground, one National Weather Service hail report came from inside the Security-Widefield city limits: 1.00 inch (reported). That report was logged by the NWS under the locality name “4 NE Fountain”. That report plots within 0.5 miles of the Security-Widefield boundary (see the note below).

On the ground, two National Weather Service hail reports came from inside the Cimarron Hills city limits, the largest 1.00 inch (measured). Both were logged by the NWS under the locality name “2 N Peterson AFB”. Radar placed only the 0.50 inch band over part of Cimarron Hills (about 3 percent of it, in its southwest part), an estimate below the size reported on the ground.

Where a report is marked above, its point plots within 0.5 miles of the city line it was placed across. An NWS report position is not surveyed: it is quoted to two decimal places and is derived from a whole-mile distance on a 16-point compass, so a point that close to a line cannot be resolved to one side of it. Those reports are still listed, because they are the National Weather Service record; only the city they are credited to is left open. City boundaries are the U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2025 place limits; Denver neighborhoods use the City and County of Denver’s statistical neighborhood polygons. A city is listed if any NWS ground report came from inside that boundary, or if a 1.00 inch or larger radar band crosses it; a ground report is never left off for the size of the radar estimate. Entries marked ZIP area have no legal boundary of their own and are matched on the Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area, which is approximate and is never a city limit. The 0.50 inch band also crossed 12 other service-area cities with no ground report inside them; those are not listed because hail under one inch rarely damages asphalt shingles and a radar band that small is an estimate below that threshold.

Hail duration, warnings and wind

The same system produced 2 Colorado wind reports that day, the strongest 62 mph at 4 S Burlington. Wind damage and hail damage look different on a roof and are assessed separately.

CoCoRaHS volunteer observers logged 12 Colorado hail observations on this date, the longest running 15 minutes at Colorado Springs 7.2 ENE. That network records how long hail fell and what it damaged, which NWS storm reports do not capture.

Frequently asked questions

Red Hawk tracks every hail day across the Front Range. See our other storm reports for the rest of the 2026 season.

City-by-city reports and hail histories

• Colorado Springs hail storm report, June 23, 2026
• Colorado Springs roofing & hail history
• Wiggins hail storm report, June 23, 2026
• Wiggins roofing & hail history
• Fountain roofing & hail history
• Black Forest roofing & hail history

Not sure what to look for? Start with what hail damage looks like on a roof and the Colorado hail claim guide.

Storm figures are National Weather Service Local Storm Reports for Colorado on June 23, 2026, retrieved from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive and de-duplicated. Times are MDT and reports are grouped by the local calendar day. Radar swath analysis by ExoVzn, an independent forensic meteorology firm, using NOAA MRMS data. Impact-energy and damage-threshold figures are from published hail impact research. Storm reports indicate where hail occurred; only a physical inspection establishes whether a specific roof was damaged.