Hail in Iowa Falls · Oct 13, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 0.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Iowa Falls that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Convective day · Oct 13, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 10th most severe storm Iowa Falls 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
- 41 /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 Iowa Falls saw the hail — from two instruments
We map this storm two ways: the NEXRAD radar signatures the storm produced overhead, and the radar-estimated size of the hail in the air. The two surfaces don’t have to match — where they diverge is where estimated size aloft ran ahead of, or behind, what the signatures caught.
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Oct 13, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Iowa Falls, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Oct 13, 2026 sits in Iowa Falls's hail record.
This was Iowa Falls's 11th recorded hail day, arriving 5 days after the Oct 8, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 10th of the 11 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Iowa Falls at 0.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Oct 13, 2026 convective day was bigger than Iowa Falls: the same system put hail over 183 other tracked cities, 20 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Alden (5 miles west, up to 0.5"); Eldora (5 miles east, up to 0.5"); Radcliffe (12 miles southwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 11 Iowa Falls 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.
For this storm over Iowa Falls, 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.
Below the severe threshold
What 0.5" hail means for Iowa Falls 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
$1.4M
Potential roof exposure — 116 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 116 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
October 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around October 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 $24 on top of the $150 plan.
Iowa Falls hail history
Other storms in Iowa Falls.
Estimated-size surface Oct 8, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Sep 4, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Aug 7, 2026
0.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 20, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface Jul 8, 2026
1.75"
Estimated-size surface Jul 2, 2026
1.25"
Estimated-size surface Jul 1, 2026
1"
Estimated-size surface May 15, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 15, 2026
0.5"
Estimated-size surface Apr 14, 2026
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