Hail in Buffalo Jul 16, 2026
Hit 18 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Buffalo this day. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
2"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft399
0
none filedThe most severe storm Buffalo has seen in the last 12 months
Overview's storm severity score weighs hailstone size, homes in the footprint, and ground-truth reports.
- Hail size
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 52 /100
- Ground truth
- 0 /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 Buffalo saw the hail — from two instruments
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.
Maximum hail size as estimated from radar aloft. Treat it as the storm's ceiling — the largest supportable stone — rather than a ground measurement.
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 16, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Buffalo, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 16, 2026 sits in Buffalo's hail record
This was Buffalo's 4th recorded hail day, arriving 2 days after the Jul 14, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Buffalo at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 16, 2026 convective day was bigger than Buffalo: the same system put hail over 206 other tracked cities, 40 of them in Montana. Nearest: Hobson (8 miles northwest, up to 1.75"); Moore (14 miles northeast, up to 0.75"); Two Dot (17 miles south, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills from Buffalo's Jul 16, 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.
For this storm over Buffalo, the NWS report log is empty — a common outcome, since ground reports only happen when someone witnesses the hail and takes the time to call it in. The detection record for the date lives in the radar maps above.
What 2" hail means for Buffalo roofs
Two-inch-plus hail punctures shingles, breaks skylights and windows, and dents anything soft. In the core of a footprint like this, close to every roof is a candidate for an insurance claim. Speed decides who writes those jobs.
$4.8M
Potential roof exposure — 399 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.Track hail over Buffalo on the live map
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5 recorded storm days in Buffalo, MT
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Jul 23, 2026
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Jul 14, 2026
0.75"
Jul 1, 2026
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May 28, 2026
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