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Hail in Okeechobee Mar 5, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 11 hail signatures up to 0.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

0.75"

≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

104

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 16th most severe storm Okeechobee 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.

2.1 /10

Hail size: 19 /100
Homes exposed: 40 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Okeechobee 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.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Okeechobee, FL on Mar 5, 2026 — The point detections NEXRAD recorded overhead. Each signature marks where the radar saw hail aloft — it is a detection, not a stone measured on the ground.

Max size 0.75" Detections 11

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Okeechobee, FL on Mar 5, 2026 — 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.

Max size 0"

The storm in context

Where Mar 5, 2026 sits in Okeechobee's hail record

This was Okeechobee's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Feb 28, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 16th of the 30 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Okeechobee at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Mar 5, 2026 convective day was bigger than Okeechobee: the same system put hail over 343 other tracked cities, 30 of them in Florida. Nearest: Lake Wales (39 miles northwest, up to 1"); Punta Gorda (56 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Arcadia (57 miles west, up to 1.75").

These maps are stills from Okeechobee's Mar 5, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Okeechobee. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Okeechobee roofs

Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$1.2M

Potential roof exposure — 104 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 104 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 March 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Okeechobee hail history

30 recorded storm days in Okeechobee, FL

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