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Hail in Burns · Aug 7, 2026

Hit 36 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Burns 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 1,814
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Aug 7, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

The 4th most severe storm Burns has seen in the last 12 months

Composite score · 3.8 / 10
Storm severity score

Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.

3.8 /10
Peak hail signal
31 /100

Largest radar-indicated size — a signal of damage potential, not confirmation.

Homes exposed
65 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
17 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Burns saw the hail — from two instruments

Aug 7, 2026 · Burns, KS

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.

Radar-estimated hail size Surface resolved
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Aug 7, 2026 Estimated size field

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 1.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Aug 7, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Burns, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Aug 7, 2026 sits in Burns's hail record.

This was Burns's 18th recorded hail day, arriving 1 day after the Aug 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 18 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Burns at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Aug 7, 2026 convective day was bigger than Burns: the same system put hail over 709 other tracked cities, 17 of them in Kansas. Nearest: Cassoday (8 miles east, up to 1.25"); Towanda (9 miles southwest, up to 0.75"); El Dorado (11 miles southeast, up to 0.75").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 18 Burns 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

1 report 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

1 report
Hail size 1"
Burns Marion County

“(ICT)”

— NOAA / SPC storm report

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Burns 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.

1,814 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$22M

Potential roof exposure — 1,814 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs
9 jobs
Illustrative work
~$135K

Close just 0.5% of the 1,814 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

August 2028

Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around August 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 $381 on top of the $150 plan.

Burns hail history

Other storms in Burns.

18 recorded storm days in Burns, KS
← All hail in Burns
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Aug 6, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Aug 6, 2026

1.5"
Estimated 1.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jul 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jul 10, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jul 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jul 4, 2026

0.75"
Signatures 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jun 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jun 17, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jun 13, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jun 13, 2026

0.5"
Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jun 8, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jun 8, 2026

1"
Signatures 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Jun 4, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Jun 4, 2026

0.5"
Signatures 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on May 30, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

May 30, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on May 29, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

May 29, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on May 18, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

May 18, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 26, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 26, 2026

1.75"
Signatures 1.75" Estimated 1.25"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 23, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 23, 2026

3.25"
Signatures 3.25" Estimated 1.5"
3 ground reports Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 17, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 17, 2026

2"
Signatures 2" Estimated 1"
2 ground reports Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 13, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 13, 2026

1.5"
Signatures 1.5" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 11, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 11, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Apr 3, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Apr 3, 2026

1"
Signatures 1" Estimated 0.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Burns, KS on Mar 10, 2026 Estimated-size surface
Storm date Burns / KS

Mar 10, 2026

0.75"
Estimated 0.75"
No ground reports filed 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 8, 2026.