Hail size 1"
2 SSE Naperville DuPage County
“Time estimated via radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Bolingbrook Mar 30, 2026
Both radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 1" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
21,701
Ground reports
3
3 hailThe 3rd 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.
5.5 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 87 /100
- Ground truth
- 50 /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
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar signatures — the point detections the storm produced overhead. A signature is where the radar saw hail, not a confirmed stone on the ground.
Max size
1.75"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Max size
1"
Where Mar 30, 2026 sits in Bolingbrook's hail record
This was Bolingbrook's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 20 days after the Mar 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Bolingbrook at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Mar 30, 2026 convective day was bigger than Bolingbrook: the same system put hail over 313 other tracked cities, 70 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Lemont (5 miles east, up to 1.75"); Lisle (7 miles north, up to 1.75"); Downers Grove (9 miles northeast, up to 1.75").
These maps are stills from Bolingbrook's Mar 30, 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
3 reports Hail size 1"
1 NNE Romeoville Will County
“Time estimated from radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
3 NW Romeoville Will County
“Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.). (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
Reports came from Naperville and Romeoville — beyond Bolingbrook itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Bolingbrook roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$260M
Potential roof exposure — 21,701 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
109 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.6M
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 Bolingbrook on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Bolingbrook storm history — this Mar 30, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.
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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.