Tornado Rating unknown
4 NNE Sims Wayne County
“EF1 Tornado. Peak winds 95 mph. Path Length 1.53 miles. Storage shed and barn damaged/destroyed. Tree damage. (PAH)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Fairfield Jun 21, 2026
Hit 43 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Fairfield this day.
A tornado was also reported to the National Weather Service during this storm — see the ground reports below.
Largest hailstone
1"
≈ quarter · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
390
Ground reports
1
1 tornadoThe 5th 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.
3.3 /10
- Hail size
- 25 /100
- Homes exposed
- 52 /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
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
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 Jun 21, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Fairfield, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jun 21, 2026 sits in Fairfield's hail record
This was Fairfield's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 36 days after the May 16, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 5th of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Fairfield at 1" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jun 21, 2026 convective day was bigger than Fairfield: the same system put hail over 415 other tracked cities, 27 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Wayne City (8 miles west, up to 1.25"); Cisne (11 miles north, up to 0.5"); Albion (16 miles east, up to 0.5").
These maps are stills from Fairfield's Jun 21, 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.
Tornado reports
1 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 Sims — beyond Fairfield itself.
What 1" 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
$4.7M
Potential roof exposure — 390 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
2 jobs
Illustrative work
~$30K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around June 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Fairfield hail history
← All hail in Fairfield 7 recorded storm days in Fairfield, IL
Other storms in Fairfield
Jul 26, 2026
1.25" Signatures 1.25" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 8, 2026
1.5" Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 4, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jul 3, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed 
May 16, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.25"
1
ground report 
Apr 27, 2026
2.25" Signatures 2.25" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed
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.