Storm report · Delta

Hail in Escanaba Jul 20, 2026

Hit 14 days ago

The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 0.75" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Escanaba this day.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

≈ penny to nickel · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint

7,398

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 2nd most severe storm Escanaba 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.

3.1 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
77 /100

How many homes sit inside the storm's footprint.

Ground truth
0 /100

Independent storm reports filed with the NWS.

Two ways to read the storm

How Escanaba saw the hail — from two instruments

Each storm gets two readings: the radar signatures NEXRAD recorded as the cells passed overhead, and a modeled estimate of hail size in the air. They are independent surfaces, so a mismatch between them is expected — and worth reading.

Radar-estimated hail size
Radar-estimated hail-size map of the storm over Escanaba, MI on Jul 20, 2026

Radar-estimated hail size over the swath. The model reports the biggest stone the storm could sustain in the air; what actually fell may have been smaller.

Max size 0.75"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 20, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Escanaba, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 20, 2026 sits in Escanaba's hail record

This was Escanaba's 2nd recorded hail day, arriving 22 days after the Jun 28, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 2nd of the 2 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Escanaba at 0.75" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Jul 20, 2026 convective day was bigger than Escanaba: the same system put hail over 553 other tracked cities, 65 of them in Michigan. Nearest: Bark River (12 miles southwest, up to 1.25"); Gladstone (14 miles north, up to 1"); Carney (18 miles west, up to 1.5").

These maps are stills from Escanaba's Jul 20, 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.

Ground reports

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.

Nobody on the ground filed a report over Escanaba for this date, which says more about who was watching than about the storm: spotter reports only exist where there is an observer. The radar surfaces above carry the evidence for this one.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Escanaba roofs

Hail this size sits right at the edge of the National Weather Service severe threshold. Newer roofs usually shrug it off, but aging or already-worn shingles can bruise, and soft metals — vents, flashing, gutters — often show the first dents.

What this storm is worth to a roofer

$89M

Potential roof exposure — 7,398 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
37 jobs
Illustrative work
~$555K
Close just 0.5% of the 7,398 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.
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.

Track hail over Escanaba on the live map

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Escanaba hail history

2 recorded storm days in Escanaba, MI

← All hail in Escanaba

Other storms in Escanaba

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.