Was there actually a storm at your address?
The storm date decides most roof claims. It separates a covered peril from “age and wear,” and it is the first thing an adjuster checks. This searches what was actually reported near you — NOAA’s verified record, plus fresh spotter reports still awaiting verification — alongside the radar’s own estimate.
We only show the last 2 years. Carriers generally will not approve coverage on damage older than that, so a storm from further back is unlikely to help your claim even if it did hit your roof.
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Where this data comes from
- NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database — 2024-07-16 to present
- US Census Bureau ZCTA Gazetteer (2024) — ZIP code centroids
- NWS Local Storm Reports (preliminary), via Iowa Environmental Mesonet — the preliminary tier. 8,934 hail reports over the last six months, refreshed nightly, newest 2026-07-16. Unverified: NOAA reviews these months later and roughly 3 in 10 do not survive into the verified record.
- NOAA MRMS MESH (Maximum Estimated Size of Hail) — the shaded field. Estimates are fetched per lookup for the day shown, via AWS Open Data, public domain. Values above the largest US hailstone on record (8") are discarded as bad data rather than drawn.
- 44,944 recorded hail, thunderstorm wind, high wind, and tornado events since 2024-07-16 — a rolling 24-month window, because carriers generally will not approve coverage on older damage. Data pulled 2026-07-16.
Two different kinds of fact share this map. The solid markers are storms a person reported and the weather service verified. The shaded swaths are a radar estimate of maximum hail size aloft — modeled, not measured, and known to both miss real hail and overstate it. Neither proves your roof was hit, and no record does not prove a storm never happened. This is evidence to bring to an inspection, not a substitute for one.