Hail size 1.75"
2 NE Bainbridge Geauga County
“Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Chagrin Falls Apr 15, 2026
The radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 2" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Chagrin Falls this day. At 2" — tennis ball — this is severe, roof-replacing hail: close to every roof inside the footprint becomes a claim candidate.
Largest hailstone
2"
≈ tennis ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
15,350
Ground reports
9
9 hailThe most severe storm Chagrin Falls 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.
6.6 /10
- Hail size
- 50 /100
- Homes exposed
- 84 /100
- Ground truth
- 100 /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 Chagrin Falls 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.
Radar-estimated hail size
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"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Apr 15, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Chagrin Falls, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Apr 15, 2026 sits in Chagrin Falls's hail record
This was Chagrin Falls's 1st recorded hail day — the first hail day in our records for the city. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Chagrin Falls at 2" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Apr 15, 2026 convective day was bigger than Chagrin Falls: the same system put hail over 425 other tracked cities, 34 of them in Ohio. Nearest: Mantua (7 miles south, up to 0.5"); Burton (9 miles northeast, up to 1.25"); Aurora (9 miles southwest, up to 0.75").
These maps are stills from Chagrin Falls's Apr 15, 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.
Hail reports
9 reports Hail size 1.75"
2 NW Bainbridge Geauga County
“Report from mPING: Golf Ball (1.75 in.). (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 2"
5 E Bainbridge Geauga County
“Time estimated via radar. (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Solon Cuyahoga County
“(CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.5"
2 SSW Moreland Hills Cuyahoga County
“Delayed report. Time estimated via radar. (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
Solon Cuyahoga County
“Images shared via social media of large hail. (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1.75"
Solon Cuyahoga County
“Corrects previous hail report from Solon. Images shared via social media of large hail. (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Bainbridge Geauga County
“Corrects previous hail report from Bainbridge. Public report of significant accumulation of one inch and greater hail. (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail size 1"
Bainbridge Geauga County
“Public report of significant accumulation of one inch and greater hail. (CLE)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Storm forensics
Read from the arrival times and locations of the NOAA ground reports,
not a radar-measured storm track.
How the storm moved
Hail was reported over 120 minutes, from to .
Reports came from Bainbridge, Solon, and Moreland Hills — beyond Chagrin Falls itself.
What 2" hail means for Chagrin Falls 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.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$184M
Potential roof exposure — 15,350 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
77 jobs
Illustrative work
~$1.2M
Claims from this storm can typically be filed until around April 2028 — the window to reach these homeowners while it's still open. Deadlines vary by policy and state.
Track hail over Chagrin Falls on the live map
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Chagrin Falls hail history
← All hail in Chagrin Falls 3 recorded storm days in Chagrin Falls, OH
Other storms in Chagrin Falls
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.