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Hail in The Villages · Jun 30, 2026

NEXRAD logged 2 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.

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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint 1,978
Ground reports 0 none filed
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size

Convective day · Jun 30, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 4th most severe storm The Villages has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.1 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.1 /10
Peak hail signal
25 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
66 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How The Villages saw the hail — from two instruments

Jun 30, 2026 · The Villages, FL

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.

NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over The Villages, FL on Jun 30, 2026 Radar signature field

NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.

Max size 1" Detections 2
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over The Villages, FL on Jun 30, 2026 Estimated size field

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"

The storm in context

Where Jun 30, 2026 sits in The Villages's hail record.

This was The Villages's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jun 29, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over The Villages at 1" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jun 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than The Villages: the same system put hail over 720 other tracked cities, 97 of them in Florida. Nearest: Lady Lake (6 miles east, up to 1.75"); Oxford (6 miles west, up to 0.75"); Summerfield (7 miles north, up to 1").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 The Villages storm dates on a live map — both surfaces, the reports, and a replay — and the same map is where you draw the swath. This page rebuilds nightly.

Ground reports

What people on the ground reported

No reports filed with the NWS

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 The Villages. 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.

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1" hail means for The Villages roofs.

Quarter-size and larger hail can bruise asphalt mats, remove granules, and dent exposed soft metal. The mapped footprint identifies an inspection priority area — it does not identify which individual roofs, if any, sustained damage.

Radar reading · not confirmed damage

Roofing exposure

What this storm is worth to a roofer.

1,978 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$24M

Potential roof exposure — 1,978 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
10 jobs
Illustrative work
~$150K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,978 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.

Claim window

June 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.

Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $415 on top of the $150 plan.

The Villages hail history

8 recorded storm days in The Villages, FL

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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Sep 11, 2026.