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Hail in Ridgeville Jul 26, 2026

Hit 8 days ago

NEXRAD caught this storm: 1 hail signature up to 0.75". The radar-estimated size surface had no signal to model this day.

Largest hailstone

0.75"

≈ penny to nickel · the largest NEXRAD radar signature
Homes in the hail footprint

29

Ground reports

0

none filed
Severity

The 4th most severe storm Ridgeville 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.

1.9 /10
Hail size
19 /100

Largest hailstone — the top predictor of roof damage.

Homes exposed
30 /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 Ridgeville saw the hail — from two instruments

The maps here read the same storm from two angles — point detections from NEXRAD, and modeled hail size aloft. Where the two disagree is informative: it marks where estimated size outran the signatures, or trailed them.

NEXRAD radar signatures
NEXRAD radar-signature map of the hail storm over Ridgeville, SC on Jul 26, 2026

Where NEXRAD flagged hail as the storm passed — point signatures from the radar, which indicate hail overhead rather than confirm what landed.

Max size 0.75" Detections 1

Only the NEXRAD radar-signature surface resolved for Jul 26, 2026 — the estimated-size swath had no hail signal to model for this storm, so there is one map to show, not two.

The storm in context

Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Ridgeville's hail record

This was Ridgeville's 5th recorded hail day, arriving 16 days after the Jul 10, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 4th of the 5 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Ridgeville at 0.75" — the largest NEXRAD radar signature.

The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Ridgeville: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 6 of them in South Carolina. Nearest: Saint Matthews (40 miles northwest, up to 0.5"); Folly Beach (48 miles southeast, up to 0.75"); Swansea (53 miles northwest, up to 0.5").

These maps are stills from Ridgeville's Jul 26, 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.

The National Weather Service logged no spotter reports for this storm over Ridgeville. That absence is ordinary — filing a report takes a person on the spot who saw the hail and phoned it in. What stands as the record for this date is the radar above, which caught the storm regardless.

Near the severe threshold

What 0.75" hail means for Ridgeville 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

$348K

Potential roof exposure — 29 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
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 Ridgeville on the live map

Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Ridgeville storm history — this Jul 26, 2026 storm included — sits underneath. When you're ready, draw this storm's footprint and pull highly accurate homeowner contact information for every address inside it.

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Ridgeville hail history

5 recorded storm days in Ridgeville, SC

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Other storms in Ridgeville

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.