Hail size 1.75"
3 N Stocks Lee County
“Golf ball size hail reported on Graves Springs Road about 3 miles north of Forrester Pkwy. (TAE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Lee
Hail in Leesburg · Jan 3, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Leesburg that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 1,081
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Jan 3, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Leesburg has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.9 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.9 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Leesburg saw the hail — from two instruments
Jan 3, 2026 · Leesburg, GA
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
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.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jan 3, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Leesburg, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Jan 3, 2026 sits in Leesburg's hail record.
This was Leesburg's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Leesburg at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jan 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Leesburg: the same system put hail over 18 other tracked cities, 1 of them in Georgia. Nearest: Albany (14 miles south, up to 0.5"); Cowarts (76 miles southwest, up to 0.5"); Ponce De Leon (126 miles southwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Leesburg 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
2 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.
Hail reports
2 reports Hail size 2"
2 ESE Forrester Lee County
“Reports of hail covering the ground up to 2 inches in diameter off Lovers Lane in Lee County... GA. (TAE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 18 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Stocks and Forrester — beyond Leesburg itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Leesburg 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.
1,081 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$13M
Potential roof exposure — 1,081 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 5 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$75K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,081 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
January 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around January 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 $227 on top of the $150 plan.
Leesburg hail history
Other storms in Leesburg.
7 recorded storm days in Leesburg, GA
Estimated-size surface Storm date Leesburg / GA
Aug 20, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Leesburg / GA
Jul 25, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Leesburg / GA
Jul 16, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Leesburg / GA
Jun 18, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Leesburg / GA
May 31, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Leesburg / GA
May 22, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 Aug 21, 2026.