Hail at one inch
Roughly a quarter. At that size hail starts bruising shingle mats and knocking granules loose, which is the damage an adjuster looks for. Below that it is usually cosmetic.
Live for Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg
Storm Tracker Did a storm hit your home?
Live radar, active National Weather Service warnings and every hail and wind report filed near your address in the last 12 months. Put in your address and see what actually came through.
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Storm Prediction Center outlook
Current conditions
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Radar shows the last two hours and updates every 10 minutes. Dots are official storm reports from the last 30 days. Tap one for the details.
Storm history
What has hit our service area
Every hail, wind and tornado report the National Weather Service logged within 10 miles of the 22 towns we cover. These are real reports from spotters, emergency managers and weather stations, not estimates.
Storm days
Hail reports
Largest hail
Wind reports
Peak measured gust
Hail and wind reports by month
Last 12 months, our service area. Hover or tap a month for the breakdown.
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Biggest storm days
The days with the most reports in the last 12 months. Pick one to see it on the map.
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Latest reports
Storm Prediction Center, today and yesterday, Northern Virginia and Fredericksburg area.
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Sources: radar by RainViewer. Warnings from the National Weather Service. Severe outlook and latest reports from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Storm report history and warning history from National Weather Service local storm reports and warning polygons, served by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. Conditions and forecast by Open-Meteo. Address lookup by Esri.
After the storm
What to look for after hail or wind
You can do most of this from the ground in ten minutes. Tick what you find and you get a straight read on how serious the pattern looks.
HailBruises the shingle mat and knocks granules loose, which shortens roof life long before a leak appears. It also dents gutter coil, downspouts, and soft metal flashing.
WindLifts and creases shingle tabs, tears off ridge caps, pulls gutters away from the fascia, and cracks or dislodges siding panels.
How to read it
What the numbers actually mean
Two numbers decide whether storm damage is an insurance claim or a repair you pay for yourself, and a third thing decides whether you can prove it.
Wind at 58 mph
The severe thunderstorm threshold. Around there shingles start lifting and breaking the seal strip, and lifted shingles leak long before they blow off the roof.
The date of loss
Insurers ask for a date of loss. Check your address above and the tracker lists every warning that covered your home in the last 12 months with its date, which beats trying to remember the day.
If you were hit
What to do next
A storm on the map is a reason to look, not proof of damage. Here is the honest order of operations, including the parts that protect you from the crews that follow storms into the area.
- Get it documented before you fileWe inspect and photograph everything on CompanyCam so you have a dated record. Filing without evidence is how claims get denied.
- Never sign an AOBAn assignment of benefits hands your claim rights to the contractor. Once signed it is very hard to unwind, and you lose control of your own claim.
- Nobody covers your deductibleIn Virginia that is insurance fraud and it puts you on the wrong side of it too. Anyone offering is telling you how they run their business.
- Check the workers comp class codeIt has to carry the sheet metal code for roofing. Plenty of storm crews carry a cheaper code that does not actually cover a man on your roof.
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Questions
Questions about the storm tracker
Where does this information come from?
Everything on this page comes from official sources. Active alerts come straight from the National Weather Service, the severe outlook and the latest reports from the NOAA Storm Prediction Center, and the 12 month history from National Weather Service storm reports and warnings, archived by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. We are not interpreting it or adding anything.
How does the address check work?
It finds your address on the map and pulls three official records for that exact spot. Any National Weather Service alert active there right now, every severe thunderstorm and tornado warning that covered it in the last 12 months, and every hail, wind and tornado report filed within 5 miles. We do not save the address you type in.
There is no alert for my area, does that mean my roof is fine?
No, and this is the part people get wrong. Alerts are issued before and during the weather. Damage turns up afterward, and plenty of it is invisible from the ground. A quiet map is not an inspection.
What should I actually do the day after a storm?
Walk the property and look for black granules by the downspouts, pieces of shingle in the grass, dents in the gutters and any soft metal, and dark spots on ceilings inside. Photograph everything the same day, before anything gets cleaned up or blows away.
How long do I have to file a hail claim?
Roughly a year, so there is time, but the evidence disappears long before the deadline does. Waiting is how people end up with a real claim they cannot prove.
Somebody knocked on my door offering a free roof. Should I let them up?
Be careful. After a real storm this area fills with crews who are not from here, will not be here next year, and are often selling your job to somebody else anyway. Ask for the Virginia license number and proof of insurance before anybody goes up a ladder on your property.
Do you charge to look after a storm?
No. The inspection is free, you get the photos either way, and if your roof came through fine we will tell you it came through fine.
Storm came through your street?
We will get on the roof, photograph what the storm actually did, and tell you straight whether you have a claim. No charge and no pressure either way.