Hail size 1.5"
Ireton Sioux County
“Photos posted to social media. Time estimated based on radar. (FSD)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Sioux
Hail in Ireton · Oct 8, 2026
Hit 14 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 1" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Ireton that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1" ≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 1,147
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Oct 8, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 4th most severe storm Ireton has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 3.3 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
3.3 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 61 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Ireton saw the hail — from two instruments
Oct 8, 2026 · Ireton, IA
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.
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field Radar-estimated maximum hail size across the swath, modeled from radar aloft. It reflects the biggest stone the storm could support, which may differ from what actually fell.
Max size
1"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Oct 8, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Ireton, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Oct 8, 2026 sits in Ireton's hail record.
This was Ireton's 10th recorded hail day, arriving 37 days after the Sep 1, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 10 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ireton at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Oct 8, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ireton: the same system put hail over 86 other tracked cities, 76 of them in Iowa. Nearest: Maurice (5 miles east, up to 0.75"); Hawarden (8 miles west, up to 1.5"); Orange City (10 miles east, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 10 Ireton 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
1 report 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
1 reportDamage-capable hail signal
What 1" hail means for Ireton 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.
1,147 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$14M
Potential roof exposure — 1,147 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 6 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$90K
Close just 0.5% of the 1,147 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 $241 on top of the $150 plan.
Ireton hail history
Other storms in Ireton.
10 recorded storm days in Ireton, IA
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
Sep 1, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
Jul 25, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
Jul 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
Jul 2, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
Jun 30, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
Jun 29, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
May 18, 2026
0.75" Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
May 17, 2026
3.75" Signatures 3.75" Estimated 2.5"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Ireton / IA
May 16, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
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 Oct 9, 2026.