Hail size 1.25"
3 SE Belfield Stark County
“Social media report of half dollar size hail. (BIS)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
/ Storm field report · Stark
Hail in Belfield · Sep 23, 2026
Hit 8 days ago
The estimated-size surface reached 2.5" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Belfield that day. At 2.5" — baseball — this is a severe hail signal associated with roof damage. Open it on the live map to see the swath over the streets.
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Peak hail signal 2.5" ≈ baseball · radar-estimated size aloft
Homes in the hail footprint 189
Ground reports 1 1 hail
Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only
Convective day · Sep 23, 2026 · noon–noon UTC
Severity
The 3rd most severe storm Belfield 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
- 63 /100
- Homes exposed
- 46 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Belfield saw the hail — from two instruments
Sep 23, 2026 · Belfield, ND
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
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
2.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 23, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Belfield, so there is one map to show, not two.
The storm in context
Where Sep 23, 2026 sits in Belfield's hail record.
This was Belfield's 8th recorded hail day, arriving 17 days after the Sep 6, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 3rd of the 8 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Belfield at 2.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Sep 23, 2026 convective day was bigger than Belfield: the same system put hail over 29 other tracked cities, 8 of them in North Dakota. Nearest: South Heart (12 miles southeast, up to 3"); Dickinson (14 miles northeast, up to 2.75"); New England (28 miles southeast, up to 1.25").
These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 8 Belfield 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 reportSevere hail signal
What 2.5" hail means for Belfield roofs.
Two-inch-plus hail is capable of puncturing shingles, breaking skylights or windows, and heavily denting soft materials. The strongest radar bands warrant prompt inspection, but neither the signal nor the footprint confirms damage at a specific address.
Radar reading · not confirmed damage
Roofing exposure
What this storm is worth to a roofer.
189 homes × $12,000 avg. claim
Potential roof exposure
$2.3M
Potential roof exposure — 189 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
- Illustrative jobs
- 1 job
- Illustrative work
- ~$15K
Close just 0.5% of the 189 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
September 2028
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around September 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 $40 on top of the $150 plan.
Belfield hail history
Other storms in Belfield.
8 recorded storm days in Belfield, ND
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belfield / ND
Sep 6, 2026
1" Estimated 1"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belfield / ND
Aug 23, 2026
2.5" Estimated 2.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belfield / ND
Aug 11, 2026
2.5" Estimated 2.5"
No ground reports filed Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belfield / ND
Jul 2, 2026
2.5" Signatures 2.5" Estimated 1.5"
2 ground reports Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belfield / ND
Jun 27, 2026
1" Signatures 1" Estimated 1"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belfield / ND
Jun 7, 2026
2.75" Signatures 2.75" Estimated 1.75"
1 ground report Open report →
Estimated-size surface Storm date Belfield / ND
May 30, 2026
0.5" Estimated 0.5"
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 Sep 24, 2026.