01 — Portrait
AlexChiciloFounder of HailScore
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Denver, Colorado39.74°N · 104.99°W
A drawing of Colorado behind the name. Not a weather feed.
Biography
I’m Alex Chicilo, founder of HailScore and a weather data analyst based in Denver. I built HailScore to make property-level storm information easier to understand and verify. I’m the company’s engineer and designer, and I believe useful data should come with a clear, published methodology.
Now
In Denver, building HailScore.
I’m the engineer and designer of HailScore, and a weather data analyst based in Denver. The work is property-level storm information that is easier to understand and verify, with a clear, published methodology.
Colorado hail days this year
59
days in 2026 with at least one hail report in Colorado. Reports on file run April 1, 2026 through November 4, 2026.
NWS Local Storm Reports for Colorado, archived by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. A day counts once when the report type is hail and the state is Colorado.
Milestones
Hailscore LLC formed
Hailscore LLC is the company behind HailScore.
Launch
HailScore
Property-level storm information, built to be understood and verified, with a published methodology.
Journal
Portraits of Alex Chicilo, each with its own caption.
Arrow keys move between photographs. Enter enlarges the one in focus.
01Alex Chicilo, Denver. Neutral-background portrait. 02Alex Chicilo in a red-background portrait, shown at its original size. 03Alex Chicilo, close portrait, shown in full without a tighter crop.
Built with
- Next.js 16.4.5
- React 19.3.0
- TypeScript ^5
Lighthouse mobile, Nov 6, 2026, 8:28 AM. Measured at http://127.0.0.1:43123/. These are the scores from that run.
- Performance
- 97
- Accessibility
- 100
- Best practices
- 100
- SEO
- 100