Hail size 1"
1 SSW Brooksville Hernando County
“Broadcast media report of quarter size hail near Brooksville... FL. (TBW)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Brooksville Jul 17, 2026
Hit 17 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Brooksville this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
7,388
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Brooksville has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.4 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 77 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Brooksville 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
Max size
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Brooksville, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 17, 2026 sits in Brooksville's hail record
This was Brooksville's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 6 days after the Jul 11, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Brooksville at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Brooksville: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Florida. Nearest: Spring Hill (12 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Homosassa (16 miles northwest, up to 1"); Bushnell (17 miles northeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Brooksville's Jul 17, 2026 storm. In the Overview app the same surfaces are live — radar updating in real time, radar-estimated hail size as it forms, and NWS spotter reports pinned where they're filed — with a radar replay you can scrub back over any past day.
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.
Hail reports
1 reportWhat 1.5" hail means for Brooksville roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$89M
Potential roof exposure — 7,388 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
37 jobs
Illustrative work
~$555K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Brooksville on the live map
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Brooksville hail history
← All hail in Brooksville 8 recorded storm days in Brooksville, FL
Other storms in Brooksville
Jul 11, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 10, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 7, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
May 24, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 15, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 5, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.