# Hail Damage Repair Irving TX | The Ping-Pong Ceiling | DG

> Irving hail repair: 11 inch-plus days since 2015 (NWS), never a golf ball - small-stone hail is PDR's sweet spot. Free pickup, Irving & Las Colinas. (972) 219-0864.

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# HAIL DAMAGE REPAIR — IRVING, TX

Here’s a fact no storm canvasser will ever hand you: in eleven years of federal records, no hailstone inside Irving’s five-mile ring has ever been logged at golf-ball size. Eleven inch-plus days, yes — but the ceiling is ping-pong, 1.50 inches, touched exactly three times. That honesty is this page’s point: Irving’s hail lives squarely in the damage class paintless dent repair erases completely — no repaint, no resale scar. Small stones still write real checks; they just deserve an honest shop. Published PDR pricing, claims billed direct, free loaners, free pickup across Irving and Las Colinas. Se habla español.

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[$0 out-of-pocket on qualifying carrier claims — the first $1,000 of your hail deductible is covered](https://dgcollision.com/deductible-assistance/)

Eleven inch-plus days since 2015 — and never a golf ball in the ring

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Free pickup across every Irving zip — tower garage, apartment lot or driveway

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TL;DR

Irving’s hail record is the most unusual one we publish: 11 days of inch-plus hail since 2015, and not one stone logged at golf-ball size — the only ring among the twenty-seven communities we cover where that’s true. The ceiling is 1.50 inches, ping-pong class, touched three times: at I-635 and MacArthur at 1:50 AM on June 6, 2018; at Shady Grove and MacArthur on a Sunday morning in April 2020; and southwest of town on March 25, 2025 — the record’s most recent entry. Everything else is quarters and half-dollars, including a fall entry in October 2023 and a half-dollar brush during the giants’ week of June 2023. We publish that ceiling instead of hiding it because it’s good news twice over: small-stone hail is exactly the damage class paintless dent repair erases completely, and an honest dated record is your best defense against the post-storm tent pitching golf-ball prices in a ring that has never logged one. Small dents still matter — a peppered hood is a real comprehensive claim, and if you drive for Uber or Lyft, cosmetic damage can threaten the job itself. We’re 25–30 minutes via SH 161 and I-35E, with free pickup from any Irving zip and the whole claim available in Spanish. 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.

- Never a golf ball: eleven years, eleven inch-plus days, ceiling 1.50″ — the only published ring where that’s true.

- Small stones, clean repairs: quarter-to-ping-pong dents are PDR’s sweet spot — no repaint, factory finish kept.

- Rideshare reality: when the car is the job, cosmetic hail isn’t cosmetic — platform condition standards make small dents expensive.

- 25–30 minutes, or zero: free pickup from a Las Colinas tower garage, an apartment lot or a south-Irving driveway.

11 days

1″+ Hail Since 2015

1.50″

The Ring’s All-Time Ceiling

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Ceiling Touched — 2018, 2020, 2025

On this page
The Ceiling
The Working City
Irving's Hail Record
Tents vs. Shops
Cost
Insurance Claims
Before & After
Getting Here
FAQ
Areas
Map

Eleven Years, No Golf Balls

## THE RING WITH A CEILING — AND WHY WE PUBLISH IT

We build these pages from the National Weather Service’s own storm log, and Irving’s log says something no other community we cover can say: in eleven years, nothing inside the five-mile ring has ever been logged at golf-ball size. The all-time ceiling is 1.50 inches — ping-pong class — and the record has touched it exactly three times: 1:50 AM on June 6, 2018 at I-635 and MacArthur, the night the same storm line went on to drop three-inch stones on Carrollton at 2:00 AM, north of this ring; a Sunday morning in April 2020, when a ham operator logged ping-pong hail at Shady Grove and MacArthur at 10:42 AM; and March 25, 2025, southwest of town at 7:36 PM — the most recent entry on the books. Everything else is quarters and half-dollars.

A marketing department would bury that. We lead with it, for two reasons. First, the usual caveat cuts both ways and we print it: reports mark witnesses, not boundaries, and a bigger stone may well have fallen on some Irving parking lot with nobody measuring — but eleven years of consistent ceiling across a heavily-trafficked city is a real pattern, not a gap. Second, the ceiling is genuinely good news for your car: quarter-to-ping-pong hail makes shallow, paint-safe dents — the exact class [paintless dent repair](https://dgcollision.com/guides/pdr-vs-body-shop/) erases completely, keeping the factory finish and the resale story intact. Irving’s hail doesn’t total cars. It peppers them — and peppered is the damage we fix best.

Where The Dents Land

## SMALL HAIL, WORKING CARS

Irving’s fleet works for a living. The Las Colinas towers and the Urban Center fill with commuters by eight; the apartment blocks off MacArthur and the neighborhoods of south Irving park thousands of cars open-air every night; the lots around Toyota Music Factory and the DFW airport east side hold cars through evenings and week-long trips. And this is one of the metro’s densest rideshare cities — which changes the arithmetic of small hail entirely. On a personal car, a hood full of quarters is an annoyance you might defer. On a car that earns its keep, it’s inventory damage: platform condition standards treat visible dents as a problem, passengers photograph them into ratings, and a lease-return inspector prices every one. The [rideshare guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/uber-lyft-driver-accident-texas/) covers the coverage map; the short version is that small-stone hail is precisely the claim a working driver shouldn’t sit on.

The record’s texture matches the working-city rhythm. The half-dollar entry of June 13, 2023 fell at Shady Grove and Story at two in the afternoon — the giants’ week of 2023 brushing Irving with its smallest change while four-and-five-inch stones fell elsewhere in the metro that same week. The October 4, 2023 half-dollars came at 9:55 PM, a fall entry months past the season most people watch. And on November 10, 2021, a ham operator logged quarters on Irving at 10:03 PM — the same November evening that [walked hail up the US 377 corridor](https://dgcollision.com/hail-damage-repair-aubrey-pilot-point/) forty miles north. Different corners of town, different clocks, one constant: the damage is discovered late, in slanted garage light, usually by someone who needs the car tomorrow morning.

The Public Record

## IRVING’S HAIL RECORD — 1″+ DAYS SINCE 2015

Each row is a National Weather Service local storm report filed under Irving’s name or logged within five miles of the Las Colinas core — a ring reaching Valley Ranch north, the airport’s east shoulder west, and the Shady Grove corridor south. One methodology note, printed because we hold ourselves to it: the June 2023 row’s pin sits just past the five-mile line, but the operator’s own report places the hail “in Irving” at a named Irving intersection, so it counts. Dates and sizes are the log’s; the reading is yours to check.

Date (local) Largest logged stone What the NWS log says

March 25, 2025 1.50″ — ping pong A crowdsourced mPING report southwest of town at 7:36 PM — the record’s most recent entry, tying the ceiling; an NWS employee logged pea-to-quarter hail falling for five minutes just past the ring’s south edge

Oct 4, 2023 1.25″ — half dollar Half-dollars southeast of the core at 9:55 PM — the ring’s fall-season entry

June 13, 2023 1.25″ — half dollar A ham operator’s report of half-dollar hail “in Irving near the Shady Grove Rd and Story Rd intersection,” 1:57 PM — the giants’ week of 2023 brushing this ring with its smallest coins

May 15, 2023 1.00″ — quarter Quarters southeast of the core, mid-afternoon

April 20, 2023 1.00″ — quarter Quarters on the ring’s west side at 9:56 PM — the same night quarters fell at I-35 and Belt Line up in Carrollton

March 16, 2023 1.25″ — half dollar Quarters north of the core at 4:59 PM, half-dollars a mile south three minutes later — a fast afternoon two-punch

Nov 10, 2021 1.00″ — quarter A ham entry on Irving at 10:03 PM — the same November evening a storm walked five hail pins up US 377 near Aubrey

April 19, 2020 1.50″ — ping pong Ping-pong hail at Shady Grove and MacArthur at 10:42 on a Sunday morning — the ring’s one daylight-morning entry, and its second ceiling touch

March 24, 2019 1.00″ — quarter “Up to quarter size hail in Las Colinas” at 10:20 PM — the metro’s monster March night spending only quarters here

June 6, 2018 1.50″ — ping pong Ping-pong hail at I-635 and MacArthur at 1:50 AM — the ceiling’s first touch; at 2:00 AM the same line dropped three-inch stones on Carrollton, north of this ring

April 6, 2018 1.00″ — quarter “1 inch hail reported in Irving” by amateur radio at 6:08 PM, with a half-dollar pin just past the five-mile line at 6:22

Eleven rows, three ceiling touches, and not a single entry of any size so far in 2026 — we’d rather tell you that than invent a storm. The neighbors’ pages carry the ring’s context: the [Carrollton page](https://dgcollision.com/hail-damage-repair-carrollton/) owns the June 2018 giants that stayed north of here, the [Grand Prairie page](https://dgcollision.com/hail-damage-repair-grand-prairie/) the midnight three-incher south of the ring, and the [DFW hail-season data guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/dfw-hail-season/) the month-by-month math behind all of it.

After The Storm

## IN A SMALL-STONE MARKET, THE CON IS INFLATION

Post-storm canvassing works differently where the hail runs small. There’s no dramatic damage to point at, so the pitch manufactures drama: a “free inspection” in an apartment-complex lot that finds “severe damage” on a hood carrying nine shallow quarters, an estimate written to golf-ball prices in a ring that has never logged a golf ball, a clipboard promising to “maximize your claim” — which, in Texas, a contractor is legally forbidden to do on your behalf. Irving’s dense apartment corridors and office garages are precisely where this crew works, because renters and commuters are least likely to know the local record. You now hold the record. Use it.

Before any signature, run the pitch through [the nine tells in our hail-scams guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/how-to-spot-hail-scams/) — each tied to the statute that exposes it. The two protections worth memorizing: a contract signed at your home — an apartment counts — can be canceled until midnight of the third business day, and any deductible made to “vanish” inside a padded estimate is insurance fraud under Tex. Penal Code §35.02, prosecuted under the policyholder’s name, not the tent’s. The honest version is printed on our estimates: [the first $1,000 of qualifying hail-claim deductibles covered](https://dgcollision.com/deductible-assistance/), funded from our own margin, with the carrier billed exactly what the repair costs.

Published Numbers

## WHAT HAIL REPAIR COSTS FOR IRVING

One published table on every DG page — and in Irving’s small-stone market, most claims land in the upper-left rows. Depth in the [DFW hail cost guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/hail-damage-repair-cost-dfw/); a fast 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 access needs trim or a panel off

Light — 1–2 panels $750–$1,500 The quarter class — most of Irving’s record lives here

Deep dents on 1–2 panels $1,500–$4,000 The ceiling class — ping-pong hits on hood and roof

Several panels, clear coat intact $2,000–$5,000 A topside peppered end to end — the classic garage-light discovery

Several panels, deep or cracked paint $5,000–$10,000+ Rare in this ring — PDR plus refinish where stones hit square

Typical full-vehicle claim $2,500–$8,000 Where most carrier-paid hail claims settle

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 neighbors’ giant-stone class — published for honesty, not fear

Notice what the ceiling does to the math: small-stone claims almost never approach Texas’s 100%-of-value total-loss line — though on an older high-mileage commuter it’s still worth running [the will-it-total guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/will-hail-damage-total-my-car/)’s honest arithmetic. Trucks change technique, not tables: [the F-150 hail page](https://dgcollision.com/f150-hail-damage-repair/) covers work-hardening aluminum — where small-dent PDR most rewards patience — and [the Silverado & Sierra page](https://dgcollision.com/silverado-sierra-hail-damage-repair/) the two-metal split. For the paid-off car carrying liability only, [the liability-only guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/liability-only-car-damage-texas/) prices the cash conversation — and per-dent cash PDR is where Irving’s damage class shines.

### DENTED IN IRVING? KEEP WORKING. WE’LL DO THE DRIVING.

Tower garage in Las Colinas, apartment lot off MacArthur, driveway in south Irving — we collect the car from any Irving zip, leave a loaner in the space, and return it finished with its claim file.

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The Insurance Side

## A SMALL-STONE CLAIM IS STILL A REAL CLAIM

Don’t let the modest record talk you out of your own coverage. Hail is comprehensive — no fault, no points, nothing on a driving record — and a hood-and-roof quarter job routinely writes into the thousands once every panel is counted under raking light. Tex. Ins. Code §1952.301 puts the choice of shop with you, not your carrier, and 28 TAC §5.7016 bars nonrenewal of a personal auto policy solely over weather claims; what premiums actually do afterward is covered honestly in the [rates guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/hail-claim-insurance-rates/). If the car works for Uber or Lyft, one wrinkle matters before anything else: the coverage map changes while you’re logged in, and the [rideshare guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/uber-lyft-driver-accident-texas/) walks that map period by period.

The mechanics, start to finish: you open the claim ([the step-by-step guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/texas-hail-insurance-claim/) covers it), we photograph the dent map against the dated record above, bill your carrier directly, and argue [the supplements](https://dgcollision.com/guides/insurance-estimate-final/) with pictures — in our [2026 State Farm files](https://dgcollision.com/guides/state-farm-claims-shop-report/), every hail claim needed at least one. 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 [free loaner](https://dgcollision.com/free-loaner-cars/) while the PDR happens. And because Irving runs bilingual, so do we: se habla español from the first call through the delivery paperwork — our [Irving page in Spanish](https://dgcollision.com/es/taller-de-carroceria-irving/) covers the collision side the same way.

Shop-Floor Proof

## SMALL DENTS, GONE WITHOUT A TRACE

Drag the slider — a customer’s F-150 aluminum hood, its small-stone dent field worked out slow and warm on our Lewisville floor. Shop-library photos, not from a specific Irving storm.

Before
After

#### F-150 Aluminum Hood — Small-Stone PDR

Pictured: a customer’s Ford F-150 — the quarter-to-ping-pong dent class Irving’s record produces, erased without repaint

Small dents hide at noon and show at dusk. Catch the hood in low light — a garage ramp or a setting sun works — and text the photo over. Free straight answer against the dated record, in English or Spanish.

Half An Hour — Or Zero

## IRVING → DG COLLISION

The clean run: take SH 161 / the Bush Turnpike north to I-35E north, exit Main Street in Lewisville, and 693 Metro Park Cir, Lewisville, TX 75057 is two minutes off the ramp — 25–30 minutes from Las Colinas, a few more from south Irving. From Valley Ranch, MacArthur straight north to I-635 and up 35E runs about the same. Open Mon–Fri 8:30–5:30, Sat 10–1. Freeway merges, parking-garage scrapes and the rest of the non-hail world live on the [Irving collision page](https://dgcollision.com/collision-repair-irving/).

Or don’t drive at all. Every Irving zip — 75038, 75039, 75060, 75061, 75062, 75063 — sits inside our free pickup zone. We collect from a Las Colinas tower garage between meetings, an apartment lot off MacArthur, or a driveway in the Heritage District, and leave a [loaner from the 50+ fleet](https://dgcollision.com/free-loaner-cars/) in the space — no deposit, no mileage cap, and for rideshare drivers we’ll sequence the repair so the car is back earning as fast as the claim allows. First move: a low-light photo texted to (817) 907-2822.

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Irving Hail Questions

## IRVING HAIL REPAIR FAQ

**Q: Was there hail in Irving in 2026?**

A: Not on the record — not a single hail report of any size has been filed inside Irving’s five-mile ring so far in 2026, and we’d rather say that plainly than invent urgency. The most recent entry is March 25, 2025: ping-pong hail southwest of town at 7:36 PM, tying the ring’s all-time ceiling. If your car sat outside that evening and never got a proper raking-light read, the dents — and the claim — are still there.

**Q: Is it true Irving has never had golf-ball hail?**

A: On the federal record, yes: since 2015, no report inside the five-mile ring has reached 1.75 inches — the only ring among the twenty-seven communities we publish where that’s true. The ceiling is 1.50 inches, logged three times (2018, 2020, 2025). Two honest caveats travel with that: storm reports mark witnesses, not boundaries, so a bigger stone may have fallen unphotographed; and the giants get close — three-inch hail hit Carrollton just minutes after Irving’s 2018 ceiling touch, and Grand Prairie’s ring logged a midnight three-incher in 2026. The ceiling is a record, not a shield.

**Q: If Irving’s hail is small, is a claim even worth filing?**

A: Usually, yes — and the math surprises people. A quarter-size storm doesn’t crack paint, but it peppers horizontal panels: a hood, roof and deck lid carrying forty shallow dents is a real repair that routinely writes into the $2,500–$8,000 full-vehicle range once every panel is counted under proper light. Hail is comprehensive coverage — fault-free, off your driving record — and small-stone damage is PDR’s sweet spot, so the repair keeps your factory finish. Where the honest answer is “pay cash, skip the claim” — a single door ding below your deductible — we say that instead, with per-dent pricing printed.

**Q: I drive for Uber or Lyft — does small hail damage actually matter?**

A: More than for almost anyone else. Rideshare platforms hold cars to condition standards — Uber’s own language expects good condition without cosmetic damage — so a dented hood can threaten the income, not just the resale value. Two things matter fast: document the damage against a dated storm (the record above is your reference), and know that your coverage depends on when the hail hit — a personal policy can exclude damage while you’re logged into the app. The rideshare-driver guide walks the period-by-period map. We sequence rideshare repairs to get the car back earning as quickly as the claim allows, with a free loaner meanwhile.

**Q: What does hail repair cost in Irving?**

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, $7,500–$15,000+ — a class Irving’s own ring has never produced, published for honesty. Cash PDR runs $50–$150 per dent plus R&I trim labor where access needs disassembly. On qualifying hail claims, the first $1,000 of the deductible is covered — printed on the estimate.

**Q: Do you handle hail claims in Spanish?**

A: Sí — se habla español, from the first phone call through the estimate, the adjuster correspondence and the delivery paperwork. Irving is one of the cities where we run claims in Spanish most often, and nothing about the process changes: same published pricing, same direct carrier billing, same deductible help on qualifying claims. Our Spanish-language Irving page covers the collision side, and you can text photos in either language to (817) 907-2822 for a free read.

**Q: Will a hail claim raise my rates or get my policy dropped?**

A: The policy is protected by rule: 28 TAC §5.7016 bars a carrier from refusing to renew a personal auto policy solely over weather claims, and hail is comprehensive — no fault assigned, nothing on your record. Premiums carry no statutory lock, so the honest answer is they can move — but most of what Dallas County drivers feel after a storm year is territory-wide repricing that lands on claimants and non-claimants alike. The rates guide separates the real levers from the folklore. (General information, not legal advice.)

## HAIL REPAIR SERVICE AREAS — IRVING & DFW

Every Irving zip rides inside our free pickup zone — tower garage, apartment lot or driveway, loaner delivered to the space.

#### Irving Areas We Pick Up From

Zip codes: 75038 · 75039 · 75060 · 75061 · 75062 · 75063.

Districts and corridors:

- Las Colinas & the Urban Center towers — the 2019 quarters entry

- Valley Ranch & the MacArthur corridor north

- Toyota Music Factory & the entertainment district’s open lots

- The DFW airport east shoulder & the 114 corridor

- Shady Grove & MacArthur — the Sunday-morning ceiling touch of 2020

- Shady Grove & Story — the giants’-week half-dollars of 2023

- The Heritage District & south Irving’s driveway blocks

- I-635 & MacArthur — the 1:50 AM ceiling touch of 2018

- The 183 / SH 161 interchange & the west-side apartment corridors

Under 15 minutes from our shop

Lewisville Highland Village Flower Mound Double Oak Copper Canyon Lake Dallas Corinth The Colony

15-25 minutes

Carrollton Farmers Branch Coppell Addison Plano Frisco Grapevine Richardson

25-45 minutes

Irving Las Colinas Dallas Grand Prairie Euless Arlington Garland Fort Worth

Anywhere in Irving — call (972) 219-0864 to schedule pickup and loaner delivery. Walk-ins welcome, no appointment needed.

The Route

## IRVING → DG COLLISION

SH 161 / PGBT north → I-35E north → Main Street exit in Lewisville → Metro Park Circle. 25–30 minutes — or free garage-to-garage pickup.

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