Storm report · Osceola

Hail in Okeechobee Jul 26, 2026

Hit 8 days ago

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 91 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.5" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

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Largest hailstone

≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

3,702

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 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.

6.3 /10

Hail size: 75 /100
Homes exposed: 71 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Okeechobee saw the hail — from two instruments

Two instruments, one storm: NEXRAD logs the point signatures it detected overhead, while the estimated-size surface models how large the hail aloft could have grown. Agreement between them is not guaranteed — the gaps are where the model ran ahead of, or behind, the detections.

NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Okeechobee, FL on Jul 26, 2026 — NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.

Max size 3" Detections 91

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Okeechobee, FL on Jul 26, 2026 — Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.

Max size 1.5"

The storm in context

Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Okeechobee's hail record

This was Okeechobee's 30th recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Jul 17, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 30 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Okeechobee at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Okeechobee: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 53 of them in Florida. Nearest: Lorida (18 miles west, up to 1"); Vero Beach (28 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Indiantown (30 miles southeast, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills from Okeechobee's Jul 26, 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.

No ground reports were filed with the National Weather Service for this storm over Okeechobee. That is common: a report depends on someone being there to see it and take the time to call it in. The radar surfaces above are the record here — the storm was detected from above even though no one on the ground logged it.

Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 3" hail means for Okeechobee roofs

Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$44M

Potential roof exposure — 3,702 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

19 jobs

Illustrative work

~$285K

Close just 0.5% of the 3,702 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 July 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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