Hail in Lake Havasu City · Aug 30, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lake Havasu City that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 30, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Lake Havasu City has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 66 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Lake Havasu City saw the hail — from two instruments
Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 30, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lake Havasu City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 30, 2026 sits in Lake Havasu City's hail record.
This was Lake Havasu City's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 44 days after the Jul 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lake Havasu City at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lake Havasu City: the same system put hail over 117 other tracked cities, 24 of them in Arizona. Nearest: Yucca (18 miles northeast, up to 0.5"); Bouse (60 miles south, up to 1.5"); Salome (72 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 2 Lake Havasu City storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.
Ground reports
What people on the ground reported
These are storm reports filed with the National Weather Service and released through the NOAA Storm Prediction Center — public-domain observations from spotters, the public, and NWS surveys. We quote each one exactly as filed.
For this storm over Lake Havasu City, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Lake Havasu City roofs.
Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$23M
Potential roof exposure — 1,934 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 10 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$150K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,934 homes in this footprint at the average $15,000 roof job. Illustrative math, not a projection — your results depend on your outreach and how the market responds.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $406 on top of the $150 plan.
Lake Havasu City hail history
Other storms in Lake Havasu City.
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