Event history
Recent storms
Storm and hail damage can often still be claimed months, and sometimes years, after the event. Plenty of people don't realise their roof was hit until long afterwards. Check the events below for your area.
Whether a claim succeeds depends on your policy and on showing the damage came from the storm rather than wear and tear. General information only, not personal advice.
Has hail hit your suburb?
Documented hail dates and sizes for 140 South East Queensland and northern NSW suburbs, from independent hail-tracking data (report dated 1 July 2026).
The events on record
- 20 November 2025
Qld & NSW Severe Storms and Hail
The most recent major hail catastrophe in the region: giant hail to 13 cm and destructive winds from Northern NSW through the Gold Coast, Logan, Brisbane, the Redlands and Moreton Bay, 20–27 November 2025.
- Areas:
- Gold Coast, Gold Coast Hinterland, Logan, Brisbane, Redlands, Moreton Bay, Bribie Island, Sunshine Coast, Northern NSW (Tweed & Lismore area)
- Hail:
- up to 13 cm
- CAT no.:
- CAT 255
- 26 October 2025
Severe Spring Storms
Damaging hail and winds across the wider Brisbane region and Ipswich from 26 October to 2 November 2025, with around 40,500 insurance claims and roughly $986 million in damage.
- Areas:
- Brisbane, Ipswich, Clifton, Pratten, Esk
- CAT no.:
- SE 254
- 23 December 2023
Christmas & New Year Storms
The Christmas Day 2023 supercell and the storms that followed brought destructive winds and 8 cm hail through the Gold Coast hinterland and Scenic Rim, driving $1.33 billion in claims, the costliest Australian weather event of that year.
- Areas:
- Gold Coast, Gold Coast Hinterland, Scenic Rim, Jimboomba, Mount Tamborine, Upper Coomera, Coomera, Oxenford, Helensvale, Toowoomba
- Hail:
- up to 8 cm
- CAT no.:
- CAT 233
- 21 February 2022
South East Qld & Northern NSW Floods
Flood event, which is a different peril from hail and wind. Australia's costliest flood (about $6 billion, roughly 236,000 claims). Listed for context; flood cover works differently from storm damage cover.
- Areas:
- Brisbane, Gatton, Lismore, Ballina, Mullumbimby, Casino
- CAT no.:
- CAT 221
- 22 March 2021
March Floods, NSW & SE Queensland
Flood event, which is a different peril from hail and wind. Listed for context only; flood cover works differently from storm damage cover.
- Areas:
- South East Queensland, New South Wales
- CAT no.:
- CAT 212
- 31 October 2020
Halloween Hailstorm
31 October 2020: hail up to 14 cm, an Australian record at the time, along a corridor from Amberley to northern Logan. Springfield Lakes was worst affected. Final tally: 44,000+ claims and about $1.08 billion.
- Areas:
- Springfield, Springfield Lakes, Ipswich, Logan, Brisbane, Moreton Bay
- Hail:
- up to 14 cm
- CAT no.:
- CAT 204
Worth asking
Is it too late to claim an old storm?
Possibly not, but it is worth checking sooner rather than later.
Older storm damage can sometimes still be claimed. A few things matter.
- Insurers expect you to claim as soon as reasonably practicable. A late claim is not automatically refused, and Australian law limits an insurer’s ability to knock one back purely for being late. But the more time passes, the harder it becomes to show the storm caused the damage rather than ordinary wear and tear.
- There are outer limits. Generally around six years for this kind of claim in Queensland and New South Wales, so it is not open ended.
- If your claim came from a declared catastrophe and was settled quickly, you may have up to twelve months to ask your insurer to review it.
We cannot promise your insurer will accept an older claim, and no honest business could. What a free inspection will tell you is whether the damage looks storm related and worth lodging. If it does not, we will put that in writing.