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Hail in Daytona Beach · Jul 26, 2026

NEXRAD logged 13 hail signatures up to 1.25"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.75" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 15,603
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Jul 26, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Daytona Beach has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 4.0 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

4.0 /10
Peak hail signal
31 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
84 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Daytona Beach saw the hail — from two instruments

Jul 26, 2026 · Daytona Beach, FL

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Jul 26, 2026 Radar signature field

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 1.25" Detections 13
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Jul 26, 2026 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.

Max size 0.75"

The storm in context

Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Daytona Beach's hail record.

This was Daytona Beach's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jul 9, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Daytona Beach at 1.25" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Daytona Beach: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Florida. Nearest: Port Orange (6 miles east, up to 1"); Ormond Beach (10 miles north, up to 1.25"); New Smyrna Beach (14 miles southeast, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 Daytona Beach 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

No reports 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Daytona Beach. 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 1.25" hail means for Daytona Beach 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.

15,603 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$187M

Potential roof exposure — 15,603 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
78 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.2M

Close just 0.5% of the 15,603 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

July 2028

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.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $3,277 on top of the $150 plan.

Daytona Beach hail history

15 recorded storm days in Daytona Beach, FL
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Aug 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Aug 26, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Aug 22, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Aug 22, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Aug 21, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Aug 21, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Aug 20, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Aug 20, 2026

1"
Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Aug 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Aug 17, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Jul 9, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Jul 9, 2026

1.25"
Signatures 1.25" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Jul 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Jul 8, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Jul 7, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Jul 7, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Jun 27, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Jun 27, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Jun 18, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Jun 18, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Jun 2, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Jun 2, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Daytona Beach, FL on May 13, 2026 NEXRAD surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

May 13, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on May 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

May 8, 2026

2.5"
Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Daytona Beach, FL on Mar 15, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Daytona Beach / FL

Mar 15, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5"
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 Aug 27, 2026.