Wind gust 66 mph
1.7 NNE Burlington Kit Carson County
“weatherlink_9940b48b-c83f-4282-be3e-a0412107cb11. (GLD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Kit Carson
Hail in Burlington · Sep 18, 2026
Hit 3 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Burlington that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 316
Ground reports 1 1 wind
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Sep 18, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 9th most severe storm Burlington has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.4 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.4 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 50 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Burlington saw the hail — from two instruments
Sep 18, 2026 · Burlington, CO
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 18, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Burlington, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 18, 2026 sits in Burlington's hail record.
This was Burlington's 15th recorded hail day, arriving 30 days after the Aug 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Burlington at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 18, 2026 convective day was bigger than Burlington: the same system put hail over 157 other tracked cities, 9 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Bethune (13 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Stratton (23 miles southwest, up to 2"); Saint Francis (32 miles northeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 Burlington 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
1 report filed with the NWS
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.
Wind reports
1 reportDamage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Burlington 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.
316 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$3.8M
Potential roof exposure — 316 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 2 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$30K
Close just 0.5% of the 316 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $66 on top of the $150 plan.
Burlington hail history
Other storms in Burlington.
15 recorded storm days in Burlington, CO
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Aug 19, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Jul 27, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Jul 9, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Jul 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Jun 30, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Jun 20, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Jun 8, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 2.25"
7 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Jun 1, 2026
2" Signatures 2" Estimated 1.25"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
May 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
May 29, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
May 17, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
May 16, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
4 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
May 9, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
3 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Burlington / CO
Jan 26, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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A storm day here is a convective day — it runs from noon to noon
UTC, so late-night hail is grouped with the afternoon storm that
spawned it rather than split across two calendar dates. Ground
reports are public-domain observations from the NOAA Storm
Prediction Center. Radar tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 19, 2026.