Hail in Canon City · Aug 26, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Canon City that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Canon 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
- 36 /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 Canon City saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Canon City, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 26, 2026 sits in Canon City's hail record.
This was Canon City's 9th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Aug 25, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Canon City at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Canon City: the same system put hail over 440 other tracked cities, 39 of them in Colorado. Nearest: Cotopaxi (11 miles south, up to 0.75"); Guffey (17 miles north, up to 0.5"); Victor (26 miles northeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 9 Canon 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.
No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Canon City. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Canon 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
$708K
Potential roof exposure — 59 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 $12 on top of the $150 plan.
Canon City hail history
Other storms in Canon City.
Estimated-size surface Aug 25, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 31, 2026
2"
Estimated-size surface Jul 29, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 28, 2026
0.5"
NEXRAD surface Jul 4, 2026
Estimated-size surface May 29, 2026
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