Hail size 1.25"
5 SW Plainfield Kendall County
“Relayed via amateur radio. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Will
Hail in Plainfield · Mar 10, 2026
The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Plainfield that day. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.25" ≈ half-dollar · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 25,108
Ground reports 4 4 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Mar 10, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 2nd most severe storm Plainfield has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.1 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.1 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 31 /100
- Homes exposed
- 88 /100
- Ground truth
- 67 /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 Plainfield saw the hail — from two instruments
Mar 10, 2026 · Plainfield, IL
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 Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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 Plainfield, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Mar 10, 2026 sits in Plainfield's hail record.
This was Plainfield's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Plainfield at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Mar 10, 2026 convective day was bigger than Plainfield: the same system put hail over 470 other tracked cities, 100 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Shorewood (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Minooka (9 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); Bolingbrook (10 miles northeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 7 Plainfield 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
4 reports 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
4 reports Hail size 1"
2 NW Plainfield Will County
“NWS employee reports 1 inch diameter hail on the west side of Plainfield. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.25"
2 N Plainfield Will County
“Half dollar size hail near 135th and IL-59. Relayed via amateur radio. Time estimated by radar. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
2 NW Plainfield Will County
“Multiple reports of ping pong size hail in west and northwest Plainfield. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
How the storm moved
Timing and place names from NOAA ground reports
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports, not a radar-measured storm track.
Hail was reported over 13 minutes, from to .
Damage-capable hail signal
What 1.25" hail means for Plainfield 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.
25,108 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$301M
Potential roof exposure — 25,108 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 126 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$1.9M
Close just 0.5% of the 25,108 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
March 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $5,273 on top of the $150 plan.
Plainfield hail history
Other storms in Plainfield.
7 recorded storm days in Plainfield, IL
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plainfield / IL
Aug 11, 2026
0.75" Estimated 0.75"
4 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plainfield / IL
Jul 27, 2026
1.75" Signatures 1" Estimated 1.75"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plainfield / IL
Jul 3, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
NEXRAD surface Storm date Plainfield / IL
Apr 2, 2026
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plainfield / IL
Mar 30, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plainfield / IL
Mar 26, 2026
1" Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
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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 Aug 12, 2026.