Hail size 1.75"
3 SSW Louisa Louisa County
“Golf ball sized hail reported south of Louisa by 911 center. (AKQ)”
— NOAA / SPC storm report
Hail in Louisa Jul 26, 2026
Hit 8 days agoThe radar-estimated size surface caught this storm, reaching 1.5" aloft. NEXRAD logged no point detections over Louisa this day.
Largest hailstone
1.5"
≈ ping-pong ball · radar-estimated size aloft Homes in the hail footprint
2,375
Ground reports
1
1 hailThe most severe storm Louisa 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.
4.2 /10
- Hail size
- 38 /100
- Homes exposed
- 68 /100
- Ground truth
- 17 /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 Louisa saw the hail — from two instruments
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
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
1.5"
Only the radar-estimated size surface resolved for Jul 26, 2026 — this storm produced no NEXRAD point detections over Louisa, so there is one map to show, not two.
Where Jul 26, 2026 sits in Louisa's hail record
This was Louisa's 3rd recorded hail day, arriving 8 days after the Jul 18, 2026 storm. By severity it ranks 1st of the 3 storms we have logged here. Radar put the day's largest stone over Louisa at 1.5" — radar-estimated size aloft.
The Jul 26, 2026 convective day was bigger than Louisa: the same system put hail over 351 other tracked cities, 31 of them in Virginia. Nearest: Gordonsville (8 miles west, up to 1.5"); Zion Crossroads (8 miles west, up to 1.5"); Mineral (11 miles east, up to 2").
These maps are stills from Louisa'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.
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
1 reportWhat 1.5" hail means for Louisa roofs
At an inch and a half, hail cracks shingles, strips granules down to the mat, and dents gutters, vents, and siding. A footprint like this typically produces a wave of insurance claims — and the contractor who reaches the homeowner first usually gets the inspection.
What this storm is worth to a roofer
$29M
Potential roof exposure — 2,375 homes × the ~$12,000 industry-average hail roof claim. Exposure, not confirmed damage.
Illustrative jobs
12 jobs
Illustrative work
~$180K
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 Louisa on the live map
Radar updates in real time, spotter reports appear on the map as they're filed, and the full Louisa 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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Louisa hail history
← All hail in Louisa 3 recorded storm days in Louisa, VA
Other storms in Louisa
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.