Hail in Fort Pierce · Jul 20, 2026
Convective day · Jul 20, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 8th most severe storm Fort Pierce 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
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /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 Fort Pierce 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 Jul 20, 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 Jul 20, 2026 sits in Fort Pierce's hail record.
This was Fort Pierce's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Jul 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 8th of the 16 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fort Pierce at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fort Pierce: the same system put hail over 553 other tracked cities, 5 of them in Florida. Nearest: Port Saint Lucie (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Sebastian (28 miles north, up to 0.5"); New Smyrna Beach (116 miles north, 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
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.
Nobody on the ground filed a report over Fort Pierce for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Fort Pierce roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$14M
Potential roof exposure — 1,181 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 6 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$90K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,181 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 $248 on top of the $150 plan.
Fort Pierce hail history
Other storms in Fort Pierce.
Estimated-size surface Sep 7, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 19, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 14, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 31, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 27, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 17, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 13, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 20, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 11, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Mar 16, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Feb 28, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Feb 27, 2026
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