Storm report · Volusia

Hail in Port Orange May 10, 2026

Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 17 hail signatures up to 3", and the radar-estimated size reached 1.75" aloft. At 3" — baseball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.

Largest hailstone

3"

≈ baseball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

11,940

Ground reports

1

1 hail
Severity

The most severe storm Port Orange 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.

6.8 /10
Hail size
75 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
82 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Port Orange 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 signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Port Orange, FL on May 10, 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 3" Detections 17
Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Port Orange, FL on May 10, 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 1.75"
The storm in context

Where May 10, 2026 sits in Port Orange's hail record

This was Port Orange's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the May 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 9 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Port Orange at 3" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The May 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Port Orange: the same system put hail over 350 other tracked cities, 8 of them in Florida. Nearest: Seville (33 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Palatka (50 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Howey In The Hills (56 miles southwest, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Port Orange's May 10, 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.

Hail reports

1 report
Hail size 1.5"
2 SSE Wilbur By the Sea Volusia County

“Ping pong ball sized hail reported from a trained spotter approximately 1 mile north of Ponce Inlet. (MLB)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics

How the storm moved

Reports came from Wilbur By The Sea — beyond Port Orange itself.

Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Severe, roof-replacing hail

What 3" hail means for Port Orange 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

$143M

Potential roof exposure — 11,940 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
60 jobs
Illustrative work
~$900K
Close just 0.5% of the 11,940 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 May 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

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Port Orange hail history

9 recorded storm days in Port Orange, FL

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Other storms in Port Orange

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.