Storm report · Highlands

Hail in Lake Placid Jun 21, 2026

Hit 43 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lake Placid this day.

Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

226

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 9th most severe storm Lake Placid 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.

1.9 /10
Hail size
13 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
47 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Lake Placid 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.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Lake Placid, FL on Jun 21, 2026

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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lake Placid, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Lake Placid's hail record

This was Lake Placid's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jun 19, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 9th of the 13 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lake Placid at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lake Placid: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 13 of them in Florida. Nearest: Zolfo Springs (24 miles northwest, up to 0.75"); Okeechobee (31 miles east, up to 0.75"); Lake Wales (35 miles north, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills from Lake Placid's Jun 21, 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.

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.

For this storm over Lake Placid, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Below the severe threshold

What 0.5" hail means for Lake Placid roofs

Hail under three-quarters of an inch stays below the National Weather Service severe threshold and rarely breaks shingles outright. But repeated small-hail events accelerate granule loss and shorten roof life — on older roofs, it's still worth a conversation.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$2.7M

Potential roof exposure — 226 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
1 job
Illustrative work
~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 226 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.
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Track hail over Lake Placid on the live map

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Lake Placid hail history

13 recorded storm days in Lake Placid, FL

← All hail in Lake Placid

Other storms in Lake Placid

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.