Hail in Winter Garden · Jul 17, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Winter Garden that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Jul 17, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 6th most severe storm Winter Garden has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Peak hail signal
- 13 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
Evidence / storm surfaces
How Winter Garden 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.
Estimated size field 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.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 17, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Winter Garden, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jul 17, 2026 sits in Winter Garden's hail record.
This was Winter Garden's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Jun 30, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 6th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Winter Garden at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 17, 2026 convective day was bigger than Winter Garden: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 71 of them in Florida. Nearest: Clermont (6 miles west, up to 0.5"); Orlando (9 miles northeast, up to 1"); Davenport (21 miles south, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 6 Winter Garden 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
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 Winter Garden. 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Winter Garden roofs.
Radar signals under three-quarters of an inch stay below the National Weather Service severe threshold and generally indicate lower roof risk. Older or already-worn materials can still show effects, but radar alone cannot determine whether a specific roof was damaged.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
Potential roof exposure
$14M
Potential roof exposure — 1,150 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 6 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$90K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,150 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
July 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $242 on top of the $150 plan.
Winter Garden hail history
Other storms in Winter Garden.
Estimated-size surface Aug 29, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Jun 30, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jun 29, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jun 24, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Mar 15, 2026
0.75"The next storm won’t wait for you.
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