Alberta hailstorm causes record-setting $400 million in insured damages

Alberta’s July 12 hailstorm caused a record-setting $400 million in insured damages, the Insurance Bureau of Canada reports, citing data from PCS-Canada.
The amount establishes a new record for insured hailstorm damage in Canada.
The previous record was set in Calgary in 1991, when a 30-minute storm generated roughly 62,000 claims and $342 million in home and auto property damage.
Alberta’s 2010 hailstorm also came close to setting a Canadian record for insured damages as a result of a single storm. That record was established in Toronto in 2005, when an August storm dumped more than 150 mm of rain on the city, causing in excess of $500 million in damage.
Deadly windstorms in 2009 caused $347 million worth of insured damage in Alberta, noted Doug Noble, IBC’s vice president of Alberta and the North. “There is no doubt we are seeing more and more the impact of severe weather in Alberta.”