Hail size 2.5"
2 NE Bolingbrook Will County
“(LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Bolingbrook Mar 10, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.25" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Bolingbrook this day.
Largest hailstone
1.25"
≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
33,090
Ground reports
13
13 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Bolingbrook 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.
5.6 /10
- Hail size
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 90 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Bolingbrook saw the hail — from two instruments
The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.
Radar-estimated hail size
The modeled maximum hail size across the swath, derived from radar aloft — the largest stone the storm could have supported, which is not necessarily what reached the ground.
Max size
1.25"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Mar 10, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Bolingbrook, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Bolingbrook's hail record
This was Bolingbrook's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bolingbrook at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bolingbrook: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Lemont (5 miles east, up to 1.25"); Lisle (7 miles north, up to 1"); Naperville (9 miles northwest, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Bolingbrook'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
13 reports Hail size 1.75"
1 NNE Bolingbrook Will County
“Trained spotter reports golfball size hail in Bolingbrook. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
1 SW Woodridge DuPage County
“3 inch diameter hail in southern Woodridge. Relayed via mping. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
2 S Woodridge DuPage County
“Report from mPING. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
2 S Woodridge DuPage County
“delayed report. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
1 SSE Bolingbrook Will County
“Corrects previous tstm wnd dmg report from 1 SSE Bolingbrook. Quarter size hail reported near I-55 and IL-53. Relayed via mping. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 3"
Bolingbrook Will County
“Photo shared of hail measuring just over 3 inches in diameter in Bolingbrook. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
2 W Bolingbrook Will County
“Relayed via mping. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
1 SE Woodridge DuPage County
“Relayed via mping. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Woodridge DuPage County
“Photo shared on social media showed hail approximately 1 inch in diameter. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
4 W Bolingbrook Will County
“Public report of golf ball size hail in western Bolingbrook. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
3 NW Romeoville Will County
“Relayed via mping. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2.5"
3 WSW Bolingbrook Will County
“Hail up to tennis ball size in western Bolingbrook. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— 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
Hail was reported over 20 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Woodridge and Romeoville — beyond Bolingbrook itself.
What 1.25" hail means for Bolingbrook 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
$397M
Potential roof exposure — 33,090 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
165 jobs
Illustrative work
~$2.5M
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.
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Bolingbrook hail history
← All hail in Bolingbrook 3 recorded storm days in Bolingbrook, IL
Other storms in Bolingbrook
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.