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Now, hailstorms, wildfires and wind damage are hammering places once thought to be shielded from the worst rate hikes, a Wall Street Journal analysis of premiums and natural disasters nationwide found.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Heavy rains and hailstorms had struck south-west France on Monday night.

From BBC • May 20, 2025

Many areas of the Great Plains were still bracing for bruising hailstorms, as a weeklong string of severe weather continued through the holiday weekend.

From New York Times • May 26, 2024

Floods and hailstorms in Italy, Greece and central eastern European countries inflicted a 3.7-percentage point hit to Generali's combined ratio in the nine months through September.

From Reuters • Nov. 17, 2023

At long intervals Cuba has been visited by brief hailstorms, and persons who tell you this will add, "but we never have known it in our day."

From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray