Hail in Boca Raton · Feb 28, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Boca Raton that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Feb 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Boca Raton 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
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 92 /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 Boca Raton saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Estimated size field The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Feb 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Boca Raton, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Feb 28, 2026 sits in Boca Raton's hail record.
This was Boca Raton's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 4 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Boca Raton at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Feb 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Boca Raton: the same system put hail over 10 other tracked cities, 9 of them in Florida. Nearest: Boynton Beach (7 miles north, up to 1.5"); Fort Lauderdale (17 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); West Palm Beach (22 miles north, up to 0").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 4 Boca Raton 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.
The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Boca Raton. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Boca Raton 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
$467M
Potential roof exposure — 38,942 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 195 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$2.9M
Close just 0.5% of the 38,942 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
February 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around February 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 $8,178 on top of the $150 plan.
Boca Raton hail history
Other storms in Boca Raton.
Estimated-size surface Sep 7, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 23, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.75"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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