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
Hail in Fairfield Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fairfield this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
6,310
Ground reports
2
2 hailThe most severe storm Fairfield has seen in the last 12 months
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
4.3 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 76 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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 Fairfield 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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.
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 1st of the 13 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: Brighton (7 miles north, up to 1"); Lockridge (9 miles southeast, up to 1"); Wayland (12 miles northeast, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Fairfield's Mar 10, 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.
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
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Reports came from Fairfield Municip and Perlee — beyond Fairfield itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Fairfield roofs
Quarter-size and larger hail is where asphalt shingle damage starts in earnest: bruised mats and granule loss that homeowners can't see from the ground. Most people inside the footprint won't know their roof was hit until someone inspects it.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$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
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.
Track hail over Fairfield on the live map
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Fairfield hail history
← All hail in Fairfield 13 recorded storm days in Fairfield, IA
Other storms in Fairfield
Jul 20, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 17, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 11, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
May 4, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 23, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 14, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 2, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 31, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 26, 2026
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 surfaces are detections and estimates,
not confirmed damage. Last updated Aug 3, 2026.