Hail size 1"
1 ENE Fairfield Municip Jefferson County
“Lasted from 640 to 650 PM. Covered the deck. No wind. (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Jefferson
Hail in Fairfield · Mar 10, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fairfield 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 6,310
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Mar 10, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Fairfield has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 4.3 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.3 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 76 /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 Fairfield saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 10, 2026 · Fairfield, IA
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 Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Fairfield, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Fairfield's hail record.
This was Fairfield's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 15 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fairfield at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fairfield: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 47 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Lockridge (5 miles east, up to 1"); Brighton (11 miles north, up to 1"); Wayland (13 miles northeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 15 Fairfield 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 1"
1 SW Perlee Jefferson County
“Up to quarter size hail. Time of the event was estimated using radar. (DVN)”
— 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.
Reports came from Fairfield Municip and Perlee — beyond Fairfield itself.
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Fairfield 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.
6,310 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$76M
Potential roof exposure — 6,310 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 32 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$480K
Close just 0.5% of the 6,310 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
March 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around March 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 $1,325 on top of the $150 plan.
Fairfield hail history
Other storms in Fairfield.
15 recorded storm days in Fairfield, IA
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Aug 13, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Aug 7, 2026
3" Estimated 3"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Jul 20, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Jun 17, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Jun 11, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
May 4, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Apr 23, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Apr 17, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Apr 14, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Apr 2, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Mar 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Mar 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Fairfield / IA
Mar 26, 2026
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 14, 2026.