Hail in Fairburn Mar 15, 2026
NEXRAD caught this storm: 0 hail signatures up to 1.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature0
0
none filedThe 4th most severe storm Fairburn has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 0 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /100
Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.
How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.
Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.
How Fairburn 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'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.
Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Mar 15, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 15, 2026 sits in Fairburn's hail record
This was Fairburn's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 9 days after the Mar 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 6 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fairburn at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fairburn: the same system put hail over 695 other tracked cities, 22 of them in Georgia. Nearest: Atlanta (18 miles northeast, up to 1.75"); Cartersville (42 miles north, up to 0"); Meansville (47 miles southeast, up to 1").
These maps are stills from Fairburn'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.
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 Fairburn, 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.
What 1.75" hail means for Fairburn 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.
Track hail over Fairburn on the live map
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6 recorded storm days in Fairburn, GA
Other storms in Fairburn
Jul 12, 2026
0.75"
Jul 5, 2026
2"
Jul 3, 2026
1"
Jul 1, 2026
1.5"
Mar 6, 2026
0.75"