Hail size 1.25"
4 W Shorewood Kendall County
“Relayed via mping. (LOT)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Will
Hail in Plainfield · Jul 27, 2026
NEXRAD logged 0 hail signatures up to 1"; the estimated-size surface reached 1.75" aloft. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 1.75" ≈ golf ball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 12,396
Ground reports 2 2 hail
Radar surfaces 2 NEXRAD + estimated size
Convective day · Jul 27, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The most severe storm Plainfield has seen in the last 12 months
Composite score · 5.2 / 10
Storm severity score
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
5.2 /10
- Peak hail signal
- 44 /100
- Homes exposed
- 82 /100
- Ground truth
- 33 /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
Jul 27, 2026 · Plainfield, IL
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.
NEXRAD radar signatures Surface resolved
Radar signature field NEXRAD's hail signatures for this storm: the spots the radar detected from above. A detection overhead is not the same thing as a confirmed stone below.
Max size
1"
Detections
0
Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Estimated size field 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
1.75"
The storm in context
Where Jul 27, 2026 sits in Plainfield's hail record.
This was Plainfield's 6th recorded hail day, arriving 24 days after the Jul 3, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 7 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Plainfield at 1.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 27, 2026 convective day was bigger than Plainfield: the same system put hail over 803 other tracked cities, 130 of them in Illinois. Nearest: Shorewood (7 miles south, up to 1.75"); Oswego (7 miles north, up to 1.25"); Romeoville (8 miles east, up to 3").
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
2 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
2 reports Hail size 1.75"
4 SW Plainfield Will County
“Reports of golf ball size hail near Caton Farm Road and County Line Road. Relayed via amateur radio. Time estimated by radar. (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.
Reports came from Shorewood — beyond Plainfield itself.
High damage potential
What 1.75" hail means for Plainfield roofs.
Hail around an inch and a half is capable of cracking shingles, stripping granules, and denting gutters, vents, and siding. Risk is usually greatest near the strongest radar signal, but property-level damage still requires an on-site inspection.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
12,396 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$149M
Potential roof exposure — 12,396 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 62 jobs
- Illustrative work
- ~$930K
Close just 0.5% of the 12,396 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
July 2028
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.
Names and phones for every home in the footprint: at most $2,603 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 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 →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Plainfield / IL
Mar 10, 2026
1.25" Estimated 1.25"
4 ground reports Open report →
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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 tells you where to look. Only an inspection confirms damage at an address. Last updated Aug 12, 2026.