# Hail Damage Repair Grand Prairie TX | The 2026 Record | DG > Grand Prairie hail repair: 15 days of 1-inch-plus hail since 2015 (NWS) - up to 3.00-inch stones at 12:51 AM April 26, 2026, a hen egg June 1, 2025. Free pickup across 75050-75054. (972) 219-0864. - Canonical page: https://dgcollision.com/hail-damage-repair-grand-prairie/ - This file: Markdown twin of the page above (clean text for AI assistants and crawlers) - Business: DG Collision Center, 693 Metro Park Cir #20, Lewisville, TX 75057 — (972) 219-0864 (text: 817-907-2822) — since 1978 - Hours: Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm, Sat 10am–1pm, closed Sunday · 24/7 towing · 4.9/5 on 500+ Google reviews - Full site index for assistants: https://dgcollision.com/llms.txt - Last generated: 2026-08-14 --- # HAIL DAMAGE REPAIR — GRAND PRAIRIE, TX Grand Prairie’s biggest hail on record fell this year, after midnight: April 26, 2026, when the four-day outbreak’s overnight round put stones up to 3 inches around Dallas Baptist University — breaking windows — at 12:51 AM. The NWS log holds 15 days of inch-plus hail in or within five miles since 2015, four of them in the fall months, plus a hen-egg stone on June 1, 2025. The season runs long down here. Published PDR pricing, claims billed direct, free loaners, free pickup across 75050–75054. Claim My $0 Hail Repair [$0 out-of-pocket on qualifying carrier claims — the first $1,000 of your hail deductible is covered](https://dgcollision.com/deductible-assistance/) Ring record 3.00″ — set April 26, 2026, at 12:51 in the morning Free loaner from a 50+ fleet, the whole repair Free pickup across 75050, 75051, 75052 & 75054 15 days ≥1″ Grand Prairie & its 5-mile ring — NWS 4.9★ · 500+ reviews Google Business Profile TL;DR Grand Prairie’s five-mile ring — reaching the Irving and Arlington seams, Joe Pool Lake and the Cockrell Hill side of Dallas — has logged 15 days of inch-plus hail since 2015, and its record entry is brand new: in the small hours of April 26, 2026, the four-day outbreak’s overnight round dropped hail estimated up to 3 inches around Dallas Baptist University at 12:51 AM — breaking windows — with a 2.50-inch emergency-management report five minutes later and an inch in Grand Prairie proper at 12:36. The rest of the record keeps odd hours and a long calendar: golf balls south of DFW Airport at 2:18 AM (2018), quarters at 8 in the morning on March 1 (2023), a hen-egg stone southeast of town on June 1, 2025 — and four fall entries, including two Octobers in 2019 (I-30 at the PGBT, then Joe Pool Lake ten days later) on the season that also produced the metro’s biggest fall stone. The corners are the ones you drive: I-30 & PGBT twice, I-30 & MacArthur, Hwy 360 & Park Row, Carrier Parkway at I-20. We’re 35–40 minutes up the PGBT, or zero: free pickup and loaner delivery across 75050, 75051, 75052 and 75054. Published pricing (light hail $750–$1,500, typical full-vehicle claim $2,500–$8,000), direct billing, and the first $1,000 of the deductible covered on qualifying hail claims. - The record fell this year, at midnight: up to 3.00″ near Dallas Baptist University, 12:51 AM April 26, 2026 — windows broken, and the date of loss is the 26th, not the 25th. - June 1, 2025 is still claimable: a 2.00″ hen-egg stone southeast of town at 7:49 PM — federally dated, late but real. - The season runs long: four fall entries — two Octobers in 2019 alone — plus a March 1 morning round. - 35–40 minutes, or none: free pickup with a loaner left at the door, anywhere in 75050–75054. 15 days 1″+ Hail Since 2015 3.00″ 12:51 AM — April 26, 2026 4.9★ 500+ Google Reviews 4 of 15 Days In The Fall Months On this page The Midnight Three-Incher The Long Season Grand Prairie's Hail Record Tents vs. Shops Insurance Claims Cost Before & After Getting Here FAQ Areas Map April 26, 2026 ## THE MIDNIGHT THREE-INCHER Grand Prairie’s biggest recorded hail didn’t come from some storied storm of years past — it fell this spring, while the city slept. As the metro’s [four-day April outbreak](https://dgcollision.com/hail-storms/april-25-28-2026-dfw-hail/) rolled its Saturday-night round southeast, a trained spotter logged an inch of hail in Grand Prairie at 12:36 AM on April 26. At 12:51, a Facebook photo captured the headline: hail estimated up to 3 inches in diameter around Dallas Baptist University, on the ring’s Dallas side — with the log noting broken windows. Five minutes later, emergency management confirmed 2.50-inch stones in the same area. Stones that size don’t dimple — they crater hoods, crack glass and break paint, and they do it in the dark, to cars whose owners found out at sunrise. Two paperwork points follow. First, the date: the storm everyone watched on the evening of April 25 did this damage after midnight on April 26 — writing the 25th on a claim is the one-day slip that stalls it, exactly the trap the outbreak’s own page documents. Second, the scope: a 3-inch stone is a comprehensive claim with [combination repair](https://dgcollision.com/guides/pdr-vs-body-shop/) written all over it — PDR for the shallow field, refinish and glass where the big stones hit square — and on an older vehicle it starts the arithmetic in the [will-it-total guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/will-hail-damage-total-my-car/). If your car was outside in eastern Grand Prairie that night and nobody has looked at it under proper light, that look is still free. The Calendar ## DOWN HERE, THE SEASON RUNS LONG Spring peaks in Grand Prairie like everywhere in DFW — but this ring’s record refuses to stay in its lane. Four of its fifteen inch-plus days fell in the fall months: quarters at I-30 and the PGBT on October 10, 2019 — the same evening the core counties logged their biggest fall stone of the whole record, a three-incher — then quarters near Joe Pool Lake ten days later; half-dollars at I-30 and MacArthur in November 2021; and a piece of the metro’s September 24, 2023 storm. Add a March 1 morning round in 2023 (quarters at 8 AM) and golf balls south of DFW Airport at 2:18 AM in June 2018, and the honest advice writes itself: in this ZIP, the after-storm walk-around is a year-round habit, not an April one. And then there’s June 1, 2025 — the evening a supercell that battered south Tarrant County reached across the county line and dropped a hen-egg (2.00″) stone a mile southeast of Grand Prairie at 7:49 PM. A year on, that damage is still claimable: Texas policies ask for “prompt” notice rather than setting a deadline, adjusters look harder at late claims, and what carries the conversation is documentation — the date sits in the federal record, and an estimate mapped against it does the arguing. We build that file free, and when the honest answer is “this isn’t worth a claim,” that’s the answer you get. The Public Record ## GRAND PRAIRIE’S HAIL RECORD — 1″+ DAYS SINCE 2015 Each row is a National Weather Service local storm report logged in Grand Prairie or within five miles of the city center — a ring that takes in the Irving seam at Shady Grove, the Arlington seam at Hwy 360, Cockrell Hill on the Dallas side, and Joe Pool Lake to the south. The usual point-report honesty applies twice over in a city this long and thin: a pin at the DBU corner says nothing certain about a Peninsula driveway, and a quiet EpicCentral parking lot keeps a thousand cars out of the record entirely. Dates and sizes are what the log fixes. Date (local) Largest logged stone What the NWS log says April 26, 2026 3.00″ — the ring record An inch in Grand Prairie at 12:36 AM, then hail “up to 3 inches” photographed around Dallas Baptist University at 12:51 with windows broken, and a 2.50″ EM report at 12:56 — the outbreak’s overnight round June 1, 2025 2.00″ — hen egg A hen-egg stone one mile southeast of Grand Prairie at 7:49 PM, quarters in town at 8:01 — the south-Tarrant supercell’s reach across the county line March 25, 2025 1.75″ — golf ball Golf-ball hail on the ring’s north edge; pea-to-quarter falling five minutes on the Irving seam May 27, 2024 1.75″ — golf ball “Golf ball size hail Carrier and Highway 20” at 7:50 PM; quarters in Arlington minutes earlier May 22, 2024 1.50″ — ping pong Ping-pong a mile northwest of town at 6:53 PM, quarters through the hour Sept 24, 2023 1.25″ — half dollar Half-dollar hail three miles northwest of Grand Prairie — the metro’s famous September storm, reaching this ring June 13, 2023 1.50″ — ping pong Half-dollars at Shady Grove and Story on the Irving seam; ping-pong near Cockrell Hill at 2 PM April 28, 2023 1.00″ — quarter A trained spotter logged quarters at Highway 360 and Park Row on the Arlington seam March 1, 2023 1.00″ — quarter Quarter-size in Grand Prairie at 8:02 in the morning — on the first of March Nov 10, 2021 1.25″ — half dollar Pea-to-half-dollar hail at I-30 and MacArthur Blvd — a November evening April 23, 2021 1.00″ — quarter Quarters near I-30 and the President George Bush Turnpike — the interchange’s second appearance April 19, 2020 1.50″ — ping pong Ping-pong at Shady Grove and MacArthur at 10:42 on a Sunday morning Oct 20, 2019 1.00″ — quarter Quarters near Joe Pool Lake at 9 PM — October’s second entry in ten days Oct 10, 2019 1.00″ — quarter Quarters at I-30 and the PGBT at 9:01 PM — the same evening the core counties’ biggest fall stone (3.00″) fell June 6, 2018 1.75″ — golf ball Golf-ball hail south of DFW Airport at 2:18 in the morning Every named corner above is a working commute: I-30 at the PGBT twice, I-30 at MacArthur, Hwy 360 at Park Row, Carrier Parkway at I-20, Shady Grove at MacArthur and at Story. The metro-wide month-by-month picture — including the fall second season this ring keeps proving — lives in our [DFW hail-season data guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/dfw-hail-season/), built from the same federal log as this table. After The Storm ## AFTER THE MIDNIGHT ROUND CAME THE MORNING KNOCKS An overnight storm with broken windows is a traveling crew’s dream setup: by the time Grand Prairie woke up on April 26, the damage was visible, the adrenaline was fresh, and the door-knocks started before the coffee did. Some of those crews do honest work; what none of them offer is an address that answers in March, a warranty that outlives the season, or paperwork that survives the nine checks in [our hail-scams guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/how-to-spot-hail-scams/) — each one tied to the Texas statute that makes it a red flag, including the rule that a contractor may not negotiate the insurance claim for repairs it performs itself. At the door, two facts do the heavy lifting. A contract signed at your home can be canceled until midnight of the third business day — Texas law, and no honest company resents it. And any pitch to “absorb” your deductible by padding the estimate is insurance fraud under Tex. Penal Code §35.02, filed under the policyholder’s name — yours — long after the truck has moved to the next storm. The version that survives an audit is printed: [our program](https://dgcollision.com/deductible-assistance/) covers the first $1,000 of qualifying hail-claim deductibles from our own margin, on an estimate the carrier sees in full. The Insurance Side ## A GRAND PRAIRIE HAIL CLAIM, DATED RIGHT The framework in three lines: hail is comprehensive — no fault, nothing on your record. The shop is your choice under Tex. Ins. Code §1952.301, whatever network the claims line prefers. And 28 TAC §5.7016 bars a carrier from nonrenewing a personal auto policy solely over weather claims — while nothing freezes premiums, and the [rates guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/hail-claim-insurance-rates/) separates what a claim actually moves from the territory-wide filings that hit every Dallas County ZIP after a storm year, filed or not. What this ring’s record demands is date discipline, and that’s our specialty: the April 26 date-of-loss (not the 25th), the year-old June 1 file built against the federal log, the fall entries nobody connects to their dents until an appraiser does. You open the claim — [the step-by-step guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/texas-hail-insurance-claim/) makes it quick — and we handle the rest: the dent map under raking light, direct billing with every carrier, and [the supplements](https://dgcollision.com/guides/insurance-estimate-final/) a real teardown produces; in our [2026 Progressive files](https://dgcollision.com/guides/progressive-claims-shop-report/), claims estimated on our floor first needed almost none. You pay [the deductible once](https://dgcollision.com/guides/do-i-have-to-pay-my-deductible/) — first $1,000 covered on qualifying hail claims — and drive a loaner meanwhile. Liability-only? The [liability-only guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/liability-only-car-damage-texas/) runs the cash math straight, and the [Spanish-language side of our site](https://dgcollision.com/es/) covers every step de principio a fin. Published Numbers ## WHAT HAIL REPAIR COSTS FOR GRAND PRAIRIE One published table, every DG page, storm or calm. Depth in the [DFW hail cost guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/hail-damage-repair-cost-dfw/); a two-minute number from the [estimator](https://dgcollision.com/repair-cost-estimator/). Damage level Published range Notes Single dents (cash PDR) $50–$150 per dent Plus R&I trim labor when trim or a panel must come off for access Light — 1–2 panels $750–$1,500 An October-quarter class round — hood and roof, shallow Deep dents on 1–2 panels $1,500–$4,000 Golf-ball strikes like Carrier & I-20 took in May 2024 Several panels, clear coat intact $2,000–$5,000 A whole topside peppered, paint unbroken Several panels, deep or cracked paint $5,000–$10,000+ The hen-egg class of June 1, 2025 where stones hit square Typical full-vehicle claim $2,500–$8,000 Where most carrier-paid hail claims land Full vehicle, dense but clear $5,000–$9,000 Roof, hood, deck lid and both bodysides Full vehicle, deep / glass / cracked paint $7,500–$15,000+ The midnight three-incher’s class — glass and refinish join the PDR Truck panels shift where a job lands inside those ranges: a 2015-and-later F-150’s aluminum work-hardens around every dent — the slow-and-warm discipline on our [F-150 hail page](https://dgcollision.com/f150-hail-damage-repair/) exists for it — and late-model Silverados and Sierras split aluminum over steel, mapped on the [two-metals page](https://dgcollision.com/silverado-sierra-hail-damage-repair/). ### HAILED IN GRAND PRAIRIE? THE PGBT IS OUR PROBLEM. We collect anywhere in 75050–75054 — Dalworth to Westchester to the Joe Pool side — leave a loaner at the curb, and bring the car back finished. Schedule My Free Pickup Shop-Floor Proof ## A COUNTED HOOD, THEN A CLEAN ONE Drag the slider — a customer’s Silverado hood, every dent circled before the estimate, finished by PDR on our Lewisville floor. Shop-library photos, not from a specific Grand Prairie storm. Before After #### Marked Hood — Counted, Then PDR’d Pictured: a customer’s Chevy Silverado hood — the documented, dent-by-dent approach an overnight storm’s claim deserves Still not sure what the April midnight round or last June’s hen egg left behind? Shoot the hood in low light and text it — free straight answer, matched to the dated record. Forty Minutes — Or Zero ## GRAND PRAIRIE → DG COLLISION One tollway, straight north: pick up SH 161 / President George Bush Turnpike north from I-30 or I-20, ride it past Irving and DFW’s east side to I-35E at the Carrollton interchange, and exit at Business 121 / Valley Ridge in Lewisville — the shop is at 693 Metro Park Cir, Lewisville, TX 75057. Plan 35–40 minutes from the I-30 corridor, a few more from the Joe Pool side. Open Mon–Fri 8:30–5:30, Sat 10–1. Crash damage instead? Start at the [Grand Prairie collision page](https://dgcollision.com/collision-repair-grand-prairie/). Or never touch the tollway. All four Grand Prairie ZIPs — 75050, 75051, 75052 and 75054 — sit inside our free pickup zone: we collect the car at home or work, leave a [loaner from the 50+ fleet](https://dgcollision.com/free-loaner-cars/) in its place with no deposit and no mileage cap, and return it finished with the dent map and photos in the file. En español, con gusto — [nuestro sitio en español](https://dgcollision.com/es/) tiene todas las guías. First move either way: a low-light photo texted to (817) 907-2822. [Get Directions](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=DG+Collision+Center+Lewisville+TX&travelmode=driving) Grand Prairie Hail Questions ## GRAND PRAIRIE HAIL REPAIR FAQ **Q: Was there hail in Grand Prairie in 2026?** A: Yes — the biggest in the ring’s record. In the small hours of April 26, the four-day outbreak’s overnight round put an inch of hail in Grand Prairie at 12:36 AM, then hail photographed at up to 3 inches around Dallas Baptist University at 12:51 — with windows broken — and a 2.50-inch emergency-management report at 12:56. Cars outside on the city’s east side that night are still worth a raking-light check, and the correct date of loss is April 26, not the evening of the 25th. **Q: Is the June 1, 2025 hen-egg damage still claimable?** A: Usually yes, honestly stated: it’s a harder conversation than a fresh claim, because Texas policies require “prompt” notice and adjusters scrutinize age. What carries it is documentation — the 2.00-inch stone a mile southeast of Grand Prairie at 7:49 PM that evening is federally recorded, and an estimate that maps your dent pattern against that date does the arguing. Trade-in disputes and just-found damage are the classic cases. We build the file free either way. **Q: How often does Grand Prairie actually get hail?** A: The log shows 15 days with inch-plus hail in or within five miles since 2015 — roughly three damaging days every two years — but the distinctive part is when: four of those days fell in September, October or November, one arrived on the first of March at 8 AM, and two came after midnight. Grand Prairie’s season starts early, runs late, and doesn’t keep business hours, which is why so much of its hail damage gets discovered weeks after it fell. **Q: Does it really hail here in October?** A: Twice in ten days, in 2019: quarters at I-30 and the George Bush Turnpike on October 10 — the same evening the core counties recorded their biggest fall stone of the entire record, a three-incher — and quarters near Joe Pool Lake on October 20. Add the November 2021 half-dollars at I-30 and MacArthur and the September 2023 entry, and fall accounts for over a quarter of this ring’s damaging days. The season guide has the metro-wide fall numbers. **Q: What does hail repair cost in Grand Prairie?** A: The published table, identical on every DG page: light hail on one or two panels, $750–$1,500; deep dents on a panel or two, $1,500–$4,000; several panels with paint intact, $2,000–$5,000; the typical full-vehicle carrier claim, $2,500–$8,000; severe damage with cracked paint or glass — the April 26 class — $7,500–$15,000+. Cash PDR runs $50–$150 per dent plus R&I trim labor where access needs disassembly. Qualifying hail claims get the first $1,000 of the deductible covered, printed on the estimate. **Q: Do you really pick up all the way from Grand Prairie?** A: Every address in 75050, 75051, 75052 and 75054, free — Dalworth, Westchester, the EpicCentral side, the Joe Pool neighborhoods. The truck collects your car, a loaner from our 50+ fleet takes its spot on the same visit — licensed, insured drivers 18 and up, no deposit, no mileage cap — and the car comes home finished. At 35–40 minutes each way, the pickup is exactly why Grand Prairie customers use us, y todo el proceso está disponible en español. **Q: Will a hail claim raise my rates or cost me my policy?** A: The policy is protected outright: 28 TAC §5.7016 bars nonrenewal of a personal auto policy solely over weather claims, and hail is comprehensive — fault-free, off your driving record. The premium has no statutory lock, so the honest answer is “it can move” — though most of what Grand Prairie feels after a storm year is territory-wide pricing that lands on every policy in the ZIP, claim or no claim. The rates guide walks the real levers. (General information, not legal advice.) ## HAIL REPAIR SERVICE AREAS — GRAND PRAIRIE & DFW All four Grand Prairie ZIPs — 75050, 75051, 75052 and 75054 — ride inside our free pickup zone, loaner delivered on every collection. #### Grand Prairie Areas We Pick Up From Zip codes: 75050, 75051, 75052, 75054. Neighborhoods and districts: - The I-30 & PGBT interchange — in the record twice (2019, 2021) - Dalworth & the north side along Main and Jefferson - The MacArthur corridor — the November 2021 half-dollar entry - The Shady Grove seam with Irving — entries in 2020 and 2023 - The Hwy 360 & Park Row seam with Arlington - Carrier Parkway at I-20 — the May 2024 golf-ball entry - Westchester, Grand Peninsula & the Joe Pool Lake side — the October 2019 entry - EpicCentral & the entertainment district lots - The Dallas Baptist University corner of the ring — where the 3.00″ record fell Under 15 minutes from our shop Lewisville Highland Village Flower Mound Double Oak Copper Canyon Lake Dallas Corinth The Colony 15-25 minutes Carrollton Coppell Grapevine Irving Farmers Branch Addison Euless Plano 25-45 minutes Grand Prairie Arlington Cedar Hill Duncanville Mansfield Dallas Fort Worth Richardson Anywhere in 75050–75054 — call (972) 219-0864 to schedule pickup and loaner delivery. Walk-ins welcome, no appointment needed. The Route ## GRAND PRAIRIE → DG COLLISION SH 161 / PGBT north past Irving → I-35E at Carrollton → Business 121 / Valley Ridge → Metro Park Circle. 35–40 minutes — or free door-to-door pickup. Map loading on scroll… [Open turn-by-turn directions in Google Maps →](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=DG+Collision+Center+Lewisville+TX&travelmode=driving)