# Hail Damage Repair McKinney TX | The 4.50-Inch Record | DG > McKinney hail repair: 21 days of 1-inch-plus hail since 2015 (NWS), 4.50-inch stones on the Alma Rd corridor March 24, 2019. Published PDR pricing, free pickup across 75069-75072. (972) 219-0864. - Canonical page: https://dgcollision.com/hail-damage-repair-mckinney/ - 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 — MCKINNEY, TX On the evening of March 24, 2019, hail over west McKinney grew from two inches to four and a half in nineteen minutes — Lake Forest and Eldorado, Stacy and Alma, Craig Ranch, all named in the National Weather Service log. That log holds 21 days of inch-plus hail in or within five miles of McKinney since 2015, a third of them before April. Hail season starts early out here. Published PDR pricing, claims billed direct, free loaners, free pickup across 75069–75072. 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/) 4.50″ on March 24, 2019 — the largest stone any of our city tables holds Loaner from a 50+ fleet, free for the whole repair Free pickup and return across 75069, 75070, 75071 & 75072 21 days ≥1″ McKinney & its 5-mile ring — NWS 4.9★ · 500+ reviews Google Business Profile TL;DR The NWS log shows 26 hail days in or within five miles of McKinney since 2015 — 21 of them at an inch or larger — and the headline day reads like a route map of the west side: on March 24, 2019, two-inch hail near Lake Forest Drive and Eldorado Parkway at 6:35 PM became three inches at Stacy Road and Alma Road by 6:40, 4.50 inches near Alma and Collin McKinney Parkway at 6:43, and three inches again in Craig Ranch at 6:57. Other entries put golf balls at El Dorado and Stonebridge (April 2018), hail “covering the ground at the courthouse” on the historic square (April 2018), a baseball two miles west of town (April 2017), and a fire-department-measured 2.75″ at Lowry Crossing (May 2024). Seven of the 21 big days landed before April — two of them in February — and the most recent was March 25, 2025, at Lake Forest and 380. McKinney is 35–40 minutes from our Lewisville floor, or zero: free pickup and loaner delivery across 75069–75072. Published pricing (light hail $750–$1,500, typical full-vehicle claim $2,500–$8,000), direct carrier billing, and the first $1,000 of the deductible covered on qualifying hail claims. - The 4.50″ day: March 24, 2019 — two inches to four and a half in nineteen minutes, every step logged on named west-side streets. - The season starts early: a third of McKinney’s inch-plus days came before April, including February rounds in 2021 and 2022. - Most recent: March 25, 2025 — half-dollar at Lake Forest & 380, ping-pong at Hardin & Eldorado. Nothing at an inch yet in 2026, and we’ll say so plainly. - 35–40 minutes, or none: free pickup with a loaner left in your driveway, anywhere in 75069–75072. 21 days 1″+ Hail Since 2015 4.50″ March 24, 2019 — West McKinney 4.9★ 500+ Google Reviews 7 of 21 Big Days Before April On this page The 2019 Storm McKinney's Hail Record The Early Season Insurance Claims Cost Tents vs. Shops Before & After Getting Here FAQ Areas Map March 24, 2019 ## NINETEEN MINUTES OVER WEST MCKINNEY Most hail records read like weather. McKinney’s biggest day reads like a drive down the west side. At 6:35 PM on March 24, 2019, a social-media report logged two-inch hail a mile southeast of Lake Forest Drive and Eldorado Parkway. Five minutes later the log has three inches near Stacy Road and Alma Road, and 2.5 inches at White Stallion Trail and Alma. At 6:43 PM came the entry that still anchors this page: 4.5-inch hail near Alma Road and Collin McKinney Parkway — softball class, in the middle of the master-planned southwest. By 6:57 PM three-inch stones were falling in Craig Ranch, at Silverado Drive and Alma, and the final delayed entry sums the evening up: hail to 2.5 inches across southwestern McKinney. Two inches to four and a half, in nineteen minutes, with almost every step pinned to a named intersection. Stones in that class don’t leave the shallow, paint-safe dimples that quarter hail does. They crease roof rails, crack windshields and break paint — which moves a repair from pure [paintless dent repair into combination work](https://dgcollision.com/guides/pdr-vs-body-shop/), and on an older vehicle it starts the arithmetic our [will-hail-total guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/will-hail-damage-total-my-car/) walks through. If your car was west of US 75 that evening and has never been inspected under proper lighting, that check is still worth doing: cars change hands, adjusters ask for dates, and this date has a federal paper trail down to the street corner. The Public Record ## MCKINNEY’S HAIL RECORD — 1″+ DAYS SINCE 2015 Every row below is a National Weather Service local storm report logged in McKinney or within five miles of the city center — a ring that reaches Fairview and the Allen seam to the south, New Hope and Lowry Crossing to the east, and the Craig Ranch–Stonebridge corridor west. Point reports have limits, and they cut both ways: a subdivision with nobody posting photos can take a beating and never make the log, and a pin three miles away is not proof your driveway was under it. What the log proves is dates — and dates are what claims run on. Date (local) Largest logged stone What the NWS log says March 25, 2025 1.50″ — ping pong Half-dollar at Lake Forest and 380 in west McKinney, ping-pong at Hardin and Eldorado — the 9:30 PM round of the Collin County storm May 28, 2024 2.75″ — measured The fire department measured 2.75-inch hail at Lowry Crossing at 6 in the morning — the ring’s east side, before breakfast June 23, 2023 1.50″ — ping pong Ping-pong hail five miles northeast of McKinney, toward Melissa June 16, 2023 2.00″ — egg Two-inch hail in McKinney logged at 12:41 AM — a past-midnight round Feb 22, 2022 1.50″ — ping pong Pre-dawn February round: half-dollar west of town at 3:45 AM, ping-pong near New Hope at 3:49 Feb 25, 2021 1.50″ — ping pong Ping-pong hail two miles north of McKinney — days after the historic freeze thawed March 24, 2019 4.50″ — softball class Two inches near Lake Forest & Eldorado → 3.00″ at Stacy & Alma → 4.50″ near Alma & Collin McKinney Pkwy → 3.00″ in Craig Ranch — nineteen minutes June 19, 2019 1.25″ — half dollar Half-dollar in McKinney; one-inch logged at US 75 and US 380 April 13, 2018 1.75″ — golf ball “Covering the ground at the courthouse” on the square, golf ball north of town — seven reports in half an hour April 6, 2018 2.00″ — egg Golf ball at El Dorado and Stonebridge, half-dollar at White and Hardin, two-inch by social media — dinner-hour, west side April 21, 2017 2.75″ — baseball Baseball two miles west of McKinney at 8:52 PM; tennis-ball hail near Hwy 121 and US 75 twelve minutes later March 26, 2017 2.00″ — egg Two-inch hail in McKinney; the fire department logged “golfball to slightly smaller than tennis ball” at 9 PM 9 more days 1.00″–1.50″ Quarter-to-ping-pong rounds in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025 — including a 3:08 AM entry in 2017, a 7:54 AM courthouse entry in 2018, and a late-night quarter round on March 29, 2025 Read the dates, not just the sizes: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 all appear. The gaps are short, the sizes are honest, and nothing at an inch has been logged in the ring so far in 2026 — which, as anyone here since the 2019 storm knows, is a description of luck, not of climate. The full metro picture, month by month, lives in our [DFW hail-season data guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/dfw-hail-season/), built from the same federal log as this table. The Calendar ## IN MCKINNEY, HAIL SEASON STARTS IN FEBRUARY DFW hail peaks in April and May — that’s true everywhere in the metro. What McKinney’s own table adds is how early the tail begins: seven of its 21 inch-plus days landed before April. February 2021 brought ping-pong stones days after the freeze; February 2022 dropped half-dollars at 3:45 in the morning; and the two biggest McKinney storms of the last decade — March 24, 2019 and March 26, 2017 — both beat the season’s official start. The practical version: a McKinney car shopping for covered parking in April has already missed a third of the local risk. Early-season hail also produces the claims that get discovered late. A March storm dents a roof; nobody looks at a roof in March; the dents surface in June sunlight or at a trade-in appraisal in the fall. If that’s your situation with the March 25, 2025 round — or any dated storm in the table above — the claim conversation is harder than a fresh one, but it is real: the date of loss has a federal record, and an estimate built against that record is exactly the documentation an adjuster asks for. We write those estimates for free, and if the honest answer is that the damage isn’t worth a claim, you’ll get that answer instead of a pitch. The Insurance Side ## A MCKINNEY HAIL CLAIM, WITHOUT THE FOG Start with the three rules that do the heavy lifting. Hail is a comprehensive claim — no fault, nothing on your driving record. Tex. Ins. Code §1952.301 puts the choice of shop and parts with you, not the claims line; a “preferred network” mention is marketing, not a requirement. And 28 TAC §5.7016 bars a carrier from refusing to renew a personal auto policy solely over weather claims. What no rule does is freeze premiums — the honest mechanics of what actually moves a renewal, including the ZIP-wide filings that hit McKinney after a bad Collin County season whether you claimed or not, are in the [rates guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/hail-claim-insurance-rates/). Our half of the work is documentation: a dent map drawn under raking light, panel by panel, then a claim package built the way carriers want to read it. You open the claim and give us the number; we bill the carrier directly and run [the supplements](https://dgcollision.com/guides/insurance-estimate-final/) an honest teardown produces — in our [2026 Progressive files](https://dgcollision.com/guides/progressive-claims-shop-report/), hail claims estimated on our floor first needed almost no supplements at all, because the first submission was already complete. Your out-of-pocket is [the deductible, once](https://dgcollision.com/guides/do-i-have-to-pay-my-deductible/) — with [the first $1,000 covered on qualifying hail claims](https://dgcollision.com/deductible-assistance/), printed on the estimate, billed honestly. Carrying liability only, like plenty of paid-off commuters on 75? Then it’s a cash conversation against the table below, and the [liability-only guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/liability-only-car-damage-texas/) gives you the straight version. Published Numbers ## WHAT HAIL REPAIR COSTS FOR MCKINNEY The same table on every DG page, storm or calm. The long version is the [DFW hail cost guide](https://dgcollision.com/guides/hail-damage-repair-cost-dfw/); a two-minute number comes from the [estimator](https://dgcollision.com/repair-cost-estimator/). Damage level Published range Notes Single dents (cash PDR) $50–$150 per dent Cash work — plus R&I trim labor when a panel or trim has to come off for access Light — 1–2 panels $750–$1,500 A quarter-size round like June 2019’s — hood and roof, shallow Deep dents on 1–2 panels $1,500–$4,000 The Stonebridge golf-ball class, concentrated where the storm aimed Several panels, clear coat intact $2,000–$5,000 A whole topside peppered, paint unbroken — prime PDR territory Several panels, deep or cracked paint $5,000–$10,000+ PDR where the metal allows, refinish where stones broke through 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, both bodysides Full vehicle, deep / glass / cracked paint $7,500–$15,000+ The March 2019 class — on older vehicles, total-loss math can enter McKinney runs on trucks, and trucks complicate hail pricing in a specific way: a 2015-and-later F-150’s aluminum panels resist small stones better than thin steel, then work-harden around every dent they do take — slow, warm PDR technique or nothing. Late-model Silverados and Sierras split the difference with aluminum swing panels over a steel roof and bed. The panel-by-panel honesty is on our [F-150 hail page](https://dgcollision.com/f150-hail-damage-repair/) and the [Silverado & Sierra two-metals page](https://dgcollision.com/silverado-sierra-hail-damage-repair/). After The Storm ## WHEN THE SQUARE FILLS WITH YARD SIGNS Collin County is famous ground for traveling hail crews — a verified storm over subdivisions this dense is the best week of their year. After the 2019 storm they worked Eldorado and Stonebridge for a month; after March 2025 the yard signs and door-hangers were out along 380 within days. Some traveling techs do good work. What none of them carry is an address you can find in March, a warranty that survives their departure, or — on the trucks this county drives — the patience aluminum panels demand. We wrote the whole playbook down: [the nine tells of a hail-repair scam](https://dgcollision.com/guides/how-to-spot-hail-scams/), each one anchored to the Texas statute that makes it a tell. The two that matter at your door: never sign anything that assigns claim rights before an estimate exists — Texas gives you until midnight of the third business day to cancel a door-signed contract, and a legitimate shop doesn’t need the pressure. And treat any “we’ll eat your deductible” pitch as what it is: if the number is hidden by inflating the estimate, Tex. Penal Code §35.02 calls it insurance fraud, filed under your name. The lawful version is printed on the estimate and paid from the shop’s own margin — which is exactly how [our deductible program](https://dgcollision.com/deductible-assistance/) works. Shop-Floor Proof ## A HAILED TRUCK, BROUGHT ALL THE WAY BACK Drag the slider — a customer’s GMC Sierra Denali, hail across the whole truck, repaired on our Lewisville floor. Shop-library photos, not from a specific McKinney storm. Before After #### Full-Truck Hail — PDR-Led Repair Pictured: a customer’s GMC Sierra Denali — the several-panels damage class, worked panel by panel under the lights ### DENTED IN MCKINNEY? THE TRUCK COMES TO YOU. Free pickup at any address in 75069–75072 — Stonebridge, Craig Ranch, the square, Trinity Falls — with a loaner dropped in your driveway on the same trip. You lose the dents, not the week. Schedule My Free Pickup Not sure whether that March damage is claim-worthy? Photograph the hood with the sun low across it and text it over — you’ll get a straight answer either way, free. Forty Minutes — Or Zero ## MCKINNEY → DG COLLISION One road does almost all of it: from US 75, take the Sam Rayburn Tollway (SH 121) southwest past Allen, Plano and The Colony; where the tollway meets I-35E in Lewisville, exit for Business 121 / Valley Ridge — the shop is at 693 Metro Park Cir, Lewisville, TX 75057, just off Valley Ridge. Count on 35–40 minutes from the square, a little less from Craig Ranch and the 121 corridor. From the north side, US 380 west to I-35E south through Frisco and Little Elm works too. Open Mon–Fri 8:30–5:30, Sat 10–1. Collision work has its own page: [McKinney collision repair](https://dgcollision.com/collision-repair-mckinney/). Or let the distance be our problem. Every McKinney ZIP — 75069, 75070, 75071 and 75072 — is inside our free pickup zone. We collect the car at your house or office, leave a [loaner from the 50+ fleet](https://dgcollision.com/free-loaner-cars/) on the spot, and return the car finished. Forty minutes each way is precisely the errand that keeps a hailed roof unrepaired for a year; skipping it is the point. A low-light phone photo texted to (817) 907-2822 starts everything without either drive. [Get Directions](https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=DG+Collision+Center+Lewisville+TX&travelmode=driving) McKinney Hail Questions ## MCKINNEY HAIL REPAIR FAQ **Q: When did McKinney last take damaging hail?** A: March 25, 2025 — the night a Collin County storm put half-dollar hail at Lake Forest and 380 in west McKinney at 9:30 PM and ping-pong-size at Hardin and Eldorado a minute later, with ping-pong stones near Fairview at 8:39. Four nights later a smaller round dropped quarters northwest of Allen. Nothing at an inch or larger has been logged in the McKinney ring so far in 2026 — a quiet stretch, and we’d rather tell you that than invent urgency. **Q: How big was the hail on March 24, 2019?** A: The largest entry reads 4.5 inches — softball class — near Alma Road and Collin McKinney Parkway at 6:43 PM. In the nineteen minutes around it the log shows two-inch hail near Lake Forest and Eldorado, three-inch at Stacy and Alma, 2.5-inch at White Stallion and Alma, and three-inch in Craig Ranch at Silverado and Alma. It remains the biggest stone on any of our city-page tables, and cars caught under it needed glass and refinish work, not just dent removal. **Q: How often does McKinney actually get hail?** A: The NWS log shows 26 hail days in or within five miles of McKinney since 2015, 21 of them with hail at an inch or larger — about two damaging days a year. The distinctive part is the calendar: seven of those 21 days landed before April, including February rounds in 2021 and 2022 and both of the city’s two-inch-plus March storms. McKinney’s hail year starts earlier than the DFW average. **Q: Is it too late to file for the March 2025 storm?** A: Often no — but honestly, it’s a harder conversation than a fresh claim. Texas policies require “prompt” notice rather than naming a deadline, and adjusters look more closely at damage reported a year on. What makes those claims succeed is documentation: the date of loss is federally recorded (March 25, 2025, with McKinney street names in the entries), and an estimate that maps the dents against that date does the arguing. We build that file free, and if the damage doesn’t justify a claim we’ll say so. **Q: What does hail repair cost in McKinney?** A: The published table, same as every DG page: light one-to-two-panel hail runs $750–$1,500; deep dents concentrated on a panel or two, $1,500–$4,000; several panels with paint intact, $2,000–$5,000; the typical full-vehicle carrier claim lands at $2,500–$8,000; severe damage with cracked paint or glass, $7,500–$15,000+. Cash PDR on a stray dent or two is $50–$150 per dent plus R&I trim labor where access needs disassembly. On qualifying hail claims, the first $1,000 of your deductible is covered — printed on the estimate. **Q: Will a hail claim raise my rates or cost me my policy?** A: Your policy: 28 TAC §5.7016 forbids nonrenewal of a personal auto policy solely over weather claims, hail included. Your rate: no statute pins it down, so nobody honest will promise it won’t move — but hail is comprehensive, rated nothing like an at-fault wreck, and the increases most Collin County drivers feel after a storm year are territory filings applied to every policy in the ZIP whether or not a claim was filed. The mechanics, with the levers that actually matter, are in our rates guide. **Q: Do you really pick up cars in McKinney?** A: Every address in 75069, 75070, 75071 and 75072, free. The truck collects your car, a loaner from our 50+ fleet takes its parking spot on the same visit — licensed, insured drivers 18 and up, no deposit, no mileage cap — and the car comes home finished. Turnaround depends on the dent map: clean PDR jobs run days, supplement-heavy combination repairs longer, and we quote timing from the map, not before it. (General information, not legal advice.) ## HAIL REPAIR SERVICE AREAS — MCKINNEY & DFW All four McKinney ZIPs — 75069, 75070, 75071 and 75072 — sit inside our free pickup zone, loaner delivered with every collection. #### McKinney Areas We Pick Up From Zip codes: 75069, 75070, 75071, 75072. Neighborhoods and districts: - Historic Downtown & the square — where the log reads “covering the ground at the courthouse” (April 2018) - Craig Ranch — the 3.00″ entry of March 24, 2019, at Silverado and Alma - Stonebridge Ranch — golf-ball hail at El Dorado and Stonebridge, April 2018 - The Alma Road corridor — Stacy to Collin McKinney Pkwy, the 4.50″ swath - Eldorado Pkwy & Lake Forest — entries in 2019 and 2025 both - US 380 / University Dr corridor and the airport side - Fairview & the Allen seam — the southern edge of the ring - New Hope & Lowry Crossing — the measured 2.75″ of May 2024 - Trinity Falls and the SH 5 / Melissa seam north 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 Denton Little Elm Frisco Plano Addison 25-45 minutes McKinney Allen Fairview Prosper Celina Richardson Dallas Fort Worth Anywhere in 75069–75072 — call (972) 219-0864 to schedule pickup and loaner delivery. Walk-ins welcome, no appointment needed. The Route ## MCKINNEY → DG COLLISION US 75 → Sam Rayburn Tollway (SH 121) southwest → I-35E / Business 121 in Lewisville → 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)