Hail in Lehigh Acres · Aug 29, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Lehigh Acres that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Aug 29, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 14th most severe storm Lehigh Acres 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
- 40 /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 Lehigh Acres saw the hail — from two instruments
Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.
Estimated size field Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 29, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Lehigh Acres, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Aug 29, 2026 sits in Lehigh Acres's hail record.
This was Lehigh Acres's 17th recorded hail day, arriving 3 days after the Aug 26, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 14th of the 17 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Lehigh Acres at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Aug 29, 2026 convective day was bigger than Lehigh Acres: the same system put hail over 113 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Florida. Nearest: Fort Myers (12 miles west, up to 1"); Labelle (14 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Bonita Springs (19 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 17 Lehigh Acres 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 Lehigh Acres 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 Lehigh Acres 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
$1.2M
Potential roof exposure — 99 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Claim window
August 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $21 on top of the $150 plan.
Lehigh Acres hail history
Other storms in Lehigh Acres.
Estimated-size surface Aug 26, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Aug 20, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Aug 10, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jul 22, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 13, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 10, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 29, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 27, 2026
1.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 26, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 23, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 22, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 12, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 6, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Apr 2, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Mar 8, 2026
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