Storm report · Miami-Dade

Hail in Miami Feb 28, 2026

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

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Largest hailstone

0.5"

≈ pea to penny · radar-estimated size aloft

Homes in the hail footprint

3,694

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 12th most severe storm Miami 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.

2.5 /10

Hail size: 13 /100
Homes exposed: 71 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Miami 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.

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Miami, FL on Feb 28, 2026 — 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 0.5"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Feb 28, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Miami, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Feb 28, 2026 sits in Miami's hail record

This was Miami's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 12th of the 19 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Miami at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Feb 28, 2026 convective day was bigger than Miami: the same system put hail over 10 other tracked cities, 9 of them in Florida. Nearest: Fort Lauderdale (25 miles north, up to 0.5"); Boca Raton (43 miles north, up to 1.25"); Boynton Beach (52 miles north, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Miami's Feb 28, 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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Miami 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 Miami 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

$44M

Potential roof exposure — 3,694 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

18 jobs

Illustrative work

~$270K

Close just 0.5% of the 3,694 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 February 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Miami hail history

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