What Is Hail Alley? The States Most at Risk

If you live in certain parts of the country, hail is not a freak event. It is a season. That stretch of the US even has a nickname: Hail Alley.

Where Hail Alley is

Hail Alley runs through the central and high plains, with Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, and Texas at the heart of it. Where warm, moist air collides with cold air at high altitude, storms build the towering clouds that produce large hail.

It is not just the alley

Plenty of damaging hail falls well outside that core, across the Midwest, the South, and beyond. Storm patterns shift year to year, and a single supercell can hammer a town that rarely sees one.

What it means for your car

If you live where hail is common, your car spends a lot of its life exposed to it. Garages help, but most vehicles sit in driveways, lots, and on the street when the worst storms roll through. That is the gap worth closing.

Where HailShield comes in

HailShield is a portable hail protection cover in development right now, built for the millions of vehicles that never see a garage. It is designed to travel in your trunk and go on fast when the sky turns. The product is still being finalized, so this is a preview of what is coming. Want to be first to know when it launches? Join the early list.