official NWS records · 1950 → yesterday · updated nightly
The storm happened. Prove it.
Your adjuster says there's no record of hail at your address. The National Weather Service keeps the record. HailEvidence turns it into a per-address verification report — every NWS-recorded hail and wind event within 1, 3 and 10 miles, with the official narrative, distance, and citation for each one. Generated in seconds, formatted for an insurance appeal.
Start free: what was recorded near your address?
Type a street address — or just a ZIP code. We measure it
against every hail event the National Weather Service recorded in the last 10 years and show you
how many fall within 1, 3 and 10 miles — free, instantly, nothing stored. Rural property with no street
address? Enter coordinates as 44.05, -107.31.
Address lookup by the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder. Records: NOAA NCEI Storm Events (final) plus SPC preliminary reports for storms newer than the latest compile — see methodology.
Need it in writing for a claim? The cited verification report is $29. New here? How to look up NOAA hail reports by address — including the free ways, ours and NOAA's own.
Did it hail near you last night?
New city pages publish within hours of every storm — these are the latest.
Recent storm days nationwide
| Date | Cities with hail reports | Hail reports | Largest hail |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 8, 2026 | 42 | 46 | 1.75" (golf ball) |
| August 7, 2026 | 208 | 375 | 4.50" (grapefruit) |
| August 6, 2026 | 92 | 256 | 3.00" (tea cup) |
| August 5, 2026 | 37 | 54 | 2.00" (hen egg) |
| August 4, 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1.75" (golf ball) |
| August 3, 2026 | 17 | 17 | 1.00" (quarter) |
| August 2, 2026 | 3 | 4 | 1.50" (ping pong ball) |
| August 1, 2026 | 12 | 13 | 1.50" (ping pong ball) |
Hail history by metro
How it works
- Pay — checkout takes a minute; no account.
- Enter the address (and the storm date in dispute, if you have one). Coordinates work too.
- Get the report instantly — a permanent link with every NWS-recorded event near the address, the disputed-date finding in plain English, and a methodology section formatted as an insurance-appeal attachment.
Storm Events vintage c20260728 SPC loaded through 2026-08-08