/ Storm field report · Cattaraugus

Hail in Freedom · Sep 2, 2026

Hit 15 days ago

The estimated-size surface reached 1.25" aloft; NEXRAD logged no point detections over Freedom 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 4,905

Ground reports 1 1 hail

Radar surfaces 1 Estimated size only

Convective day · Sep 2, 2026 · noon–noon UTC

Severity

Freedom's only recorded storm in the last 12 months

Composite score · 4.0 / 10

Storm severity score

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

4.0 /10

Peak hail signal: 31 /100
Homes exposed: 74 /100
Ground truth: 17 /100

Evidence / storm surfaces

How Freedom saw the hail — from two instruments

Sep 2, 2026 · Freedom, NY

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 map of the storm over Freedom, NY on Sep 2, 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 1.25"

Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Sep 2, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Freedom, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Sep 2, 2026 sits in Freedom's hail record.

This was Freedom's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 1 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Freedom at 1.25" — radar-estimated size aloft.

The Sep 2, 2026 convective day was bigger than Freedom: the same system put hail over 356 other tracked cities, 81 of them in New York. Nearest: Arcade (7 miles north, up to 1.25"); Rushford (7 miles south, up to 1"); Delevan (8 miles west, up to 1.25").

These maps are stills. In the app this date is one of 1 Freedom storm date 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"

3 ESE Freedom Cattaraugus County

12:05 AM UTC

“(BUF)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report

Damage-capable hail signal

What 1.25" hail means for Freedom 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.

4,905 homes × $12,000 avg. claim

Potential roof exposure

$59M

Potential roof exposure — 4,905 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.

Illustrative jobs: 25 jobs
Illustrative work: ~$375K

Close just 0.5% of the 4,905 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 $1,030 on top of the $150 plan.

Freedom hail history

1 recorded storm day in Freedom, NY

← All hail in Freedom

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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 3, 2026.