Hail size 1.5"
3 ENE Bayside Lakes Brevard County
“Public reported hail of 1.0-1.5 inches near Paragon Rd and Babcock St. in SE Palm Bay around 4:00 pm. (MLB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Malabar Mar 15, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 8 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.25" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
3,764
Ground reports
4
4 hailThe most severe storm Malabar 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.
5.4 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 72 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Malabar saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Max size
1.75"
Detections
8
Radar-estimated hail size
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
1.25"
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Malabar's hail record
This was Malabar's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Malabar at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Malabar: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 66 of them in Florida. Nearest: Palm Bay (8 miles southwest, up to 2"); Melbourne (14 miles northwest, up to 1.25"); Cape Canaveral (28 miles north, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Malabar's Mar 15, 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.
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.
Hail reports
4 reports Hail size 1.75"
3 W Grant-Valkaria Brevard County
“Spotter SLC-211 reported half inch to golf ball sized hail on I-95 between MM 168-169 (near Grant-Valkaria) at 3:49 PM. (MLB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
2 NE Palm Bay Brevard County
“Resident reported penny to quarter sized hail in Palm Bay near Malabar Rd and I-95. (MLB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
3 W Grant-Valkaria Brevard County
“Off duty NWS employee reported dime to quarter sized hail near Ramblebrook St. in Malabar. (MLB)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 23 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Bayside Lakes, Grant-Valkaria, and Palm Bay — beyond Malabar itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Malabar roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$45M
Potential roof exposure — 3,764 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
19 jobs
Illustrative work
~$285K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Malabar on the live map
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Malabar hail history
← All hail in Malabar 5 recorded storm days in Malabar, FL
Other storms in Malabar
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.