Storm report · Orange

Hail in Orlando Mar 15, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 13 hail signatures up to 1.5", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.5" aloft.

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Largest hailstone

1.5"

≈ ping-pong ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature

Homes in the hail footprint

16,917

Ground reports

none filed

Severity

The 3rd most severe storm Orlando 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.

4.4 /10

Hail size: 38 /100
Homes exposed: 85 /100
Ground truth: 0 /100

Two ways to read the storm

How Orlando 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 Orlando, FL on Mar 15, 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 1.5" Detections 13

Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Orlando, FL on Mar 15, 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 0.5"

The storm in context

Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Orlando's hail record

This was Orlando's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 21 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Orlando at 1.5" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Orlando: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 66 of them in Florida. Nearest: Winter Garden (7 miles north, up to 0.75"); Davenport (9 miles southwest, up to 1.75"); Intercession City (9 miles southeast, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills from Orlando'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.

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.

For this storm over Orlando, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.

Widespread claimable damage

What 1.5" hail means for Orlando 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

$203M

Potential roof exposure — 16,917 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs

85 jobs

Illustrative work

~$1.3M

Close just 0.5% of the 16,917 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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Orlando hail history

21 recorded storm days in Orlando, FL

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