Hail size 1"
2 ESE Scioto Mills Stephenson County
“Estimate of golf ball size hail. Picture of dent to vehicle. Report was delayed. (DVN)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Freeport Jul 3, 2026
Hit 31 days agoBoth radar surfaces caught this storm: NEXRAD logged 37 hail signatures up to 1.75", and the radar-estimated size reached 0.75" aloft.
Largest hailstone
1.75"
≈ golf ball · the largest NEXRAD radar signature Homes in the hail footprint
7,625
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe 2nd most severe storm Freeport 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.
4.8 /10
- Hail size
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 78 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Freeport 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.
NEXRAD radar signatures
Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.
Max size
1.75"
Detections
37
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
0.75"
Where Jul 3, 2026 sits in Freeport's hail record
This was Freeport's 7th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Jul 2, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Freeport at 1.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.
The Jul 3, 2026 convective day was bigger than Freeport: the same system put hail over 1,885 other tracked cities, 215 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Ridott (12 miles southeast, up to 2"); Pearl City (12 miles southwest, up to 1.5"); Kent (12 miles southwest, up to 1.5").
These maps are stills from Freeport's Jul 3, 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
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 Scioto Mills — beyond Freeport itself.
What 1.75" hail means for Freeport 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
$92M
Potential roof exposure — 7,625 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
38 jobs
Illustrative work
~$570K
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around July 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
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Freeport hail history
← All hail in Freeport 7 recorded storm days in Freeport, IL
Other storms in Freeport
Jul 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Jun 24, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 17, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
2
ground reports 
Apr 14, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 
Apr 2, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed 
Mar 10, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
2
ground reports
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.