Hail size 1"
4 WSW Saint Lucie Airpo St. Lucie County
“Picture on social media of quarter sized hail off Orange Ave west of the Florida turnpike. (MLB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · St. Lucie
Hail in Fort Pierce · Feb 28, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.75" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fort Pierce that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 8,589
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Feb 28, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Fort Pierce has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.8 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.8 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 79 /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 Fort Pierce saw the hail — from two instruments
Feb 28, 2026 · Fort Pierce, FL
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
1.75"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Feb 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Fort Pierce, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Feb 28, 2026 sits in Fort Pierce's hail record.
This was Fort Pierce's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Feb 27, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Pierce at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Feb 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Pierce: the same system put hail over 10 other tracked cities, 9 of them in Florida. Nearest: Stuart (28 miles south, up to 1.25"); Okeechobee (34 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Lorida (50 miles west, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 16 Fort Pierce 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.
Hail reports
1 reportStorm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Reports came from Saint Lucie Airpo — beyond Fort Pierce itself.
High damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Fort Pierce roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
8,589 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$103M
Potential roof exposure — 8,589 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 43 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$645K
Close just 0.5% of the 8,589 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 $1,804 on top of the $150 plan.
Fort Pierce hail history
Other storms in Fort Pierce.
16 recorded storm days in Fort Pierce, FL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Sep 7, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Aug 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Aug 19, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Aug 14, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Jul 31, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Jul 27, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Jul 20, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Jul 17, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Jul 13, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Jul 10, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Jun 22, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Jun 20, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
May 11, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 0.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Mar 16, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fort Pierce / FL
Feb 27, 2026
0.5" Estimated 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 Sep 8, 2026.