An initial estimate of damage costs from a July 13, 2025, hailstorm that swept through Calgary is $92 million, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada .

IBC said 65 per cent of that estimate comes from damage to vehicles resulting from the storm.

Vice-president Aaron Sutherland said Alberta has experienced at least one major hailstorm every year for the past two decades, resulting in more than $11 billion in insurance damage, with $6 billion of that coming in the last five years alone.

A massive hailstorm that rolled through the north part of Calgary on Aug. 5, 2024, caused more than $3.2 billion in damage, making it the second costliest natural disaster in Canadian history, according to the Insurance Bureau.

That storm saw golf ball-sized hail, powerful winds and heavy rain

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