Wind and hail storms frequently cause severe property damagethroughout the U.S. While hail storms most frequently impact theGreat Plains and Midwest, every state in the nation issusceptible.
|Hail, in particular, has become such an issue that earlier thisyear, the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety conducted the first-ever indoor hailstorm in its ResearchCenter in South Carolina in an effort to research building productsand ways to educate consumers.
|State Farm reports that damage caused by wind and hail cost theinsurer and its policyholders more than $3.9 billion in 2012.
|Click “next” to see State Farm's ranking of the top 10 statesthat reported the most wind and hail losses in 2012.
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A Colorado golfer chips an orangegolf ball on a course littered with hail. (AP Photo/TomKimmell)
|10. Colorado
|Number of claims: 16,000
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A woman sorts through the remainsof her cousin's mobile home near Cecilia, Ky., after it wasdestroyed by high winds. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)
|9. Kentucky
|Number of claims: 22,000
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High windsfrom Superstorm Sandy uprooted this tree in Jersey City, NJ. (APPhoto/Charles Sykes)
8. New Jersey
|Number of claims: 23,000
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A schoolbus is pushed through the front of a building after a tornado sweptthrough Henryville, Ind. (AP Photo/Philip Scott Andrews)
7. Indiana
|Number of claims: 23,000
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Homesdestroyed by high winds are seen in the distance in Greeneville,Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)
6. Tennessee
|Number of claims: 24,000
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Large hailstones are seen as a thunderstorm passes through Poplar Bluff, Mo.(AP Photo/Robert Ray)
5. Missouri
|Number of claims: 25,000
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A treerests on a car in Mayfield Heights, Ohio after high winds spinningoff the edge of Superstorm Sandy took a vicious swipe at thenortheastern part of the state. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
4. Ohio
|Number of claims: 31,000
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Hail isscattered between blades of grass after a hail storm in Clarence,N.Y. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
3. New York
|Number of claims: 34,000
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A bicyclerider struggles through a flooded street in Springfield, Ill., as astrong thunderstorm including winds in excess of 60 mph andquarter-sized hail moves through. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
2. Illinois
|Number of claims: 41,000
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Stormclouds bearing strong winds and hail roll in before a rain storm inDallas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
1. Texas
|Number of claims: 47,000
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