Find the hail date of loss: every hail day near an address
A date of loss is the day the damage happened. It is the first thing a carrier checks, the first thing a file is challenged on, and the detail most often wrong: the day a claim names is not always a day the record holds near the address, and it is rarely the only one.
The search reads the hail record as its publishers release it: local storm reports relayed by National Weather Service offices, the Storm Prediction Center's storm reports, the NCEI Storm Events database, NEXRAD radar hail signatures and MRMS radar hail estimates (MESH), the warning polygons NWS offices issue, and volunteer observer hail reports (CoCoRaHS), each counted as its own independent source.
How to find a hail date of loss
- Enter the address
- A street address, city and state. The search is from the placed address, not from the city's centre, and the page names the match it found so a house number the geocoder moved along the block is never passed off as the one that was typed.
- Choose the window
- From and to. The form opens on the widest window this search reaches, stated beside it; a window asked for beyond that reach is narrowed rather than refused, and the result says so.
- Read the days, then run the address
- Every candidate day links to its own page, the record of that storm everywhere it fell. When one of them is the day, the door at the close of the result opens the report on the address as it was typed.
How to read the results
- The order
- Most independent sources first, then the largest report, then the most recent. A day carried by one report is a report. A day that several systems describe is a storm, and it is the kind of day a file can rest on.
- Largest, measured, reports, sources
- The largest figure on the day, whether anything was measured by a person or an instrument on the ground, how many reports there were, and how many independent sources carried the day. A measured size and a radar detection are different objects and are never printed in one colour.
What the search reads
- The record
- Every hail report in the archive with a point within 10 miles of the address, in the window you choose. Each day is listed with its largest report, whether anything was measured, how many reports there were and how many independent sources carried it.
- What the report adds
- The storm at the roof: distance and bearing from the property for every record, each named to its federal source, wind and tornado searched beside hail, the full reach of the plan, and a fingerprinted document that states its own method.
- Terms used on this page
- Date of loss, storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this search uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it, and the guide to the date of loss says how one is established and how it is contested.
Questions this page is asked
How do I find the hail date of loss for my address?
Enter the street address and a window. The finder lists every day with hail on the public record within the stated radius of the address, with the largest report on each, whether anything was measured on the ground, how many reports there were and how many independent sources carried the day. The best-attested days lead.
When did it hail at my address?
The record can say when hail was reported near the address: each candidate day links to its own page, the record of that storm everywhere it fell. Whether a given day reached one roof, at what distance and from which source, is the report's answer, and the form at the foot of the page opens it on the address you typed.
Why are the days ranked by sources rather than by size?
A day carried by one report is a report. A day that radar, a trained observer and a warning all describe is a storm, and a storm is what a date of loss can rest on. Most independent sources first, then the largest report, then the most recent.
What is a date of loss?
The day the damage happened. It is the first thing a carrier checks, the first thing a file is challenged on, and the detail most often wrong: the day a claim names is not always a day the record holds near the address, and it is rarely the only one. The glossary entry and the guide linked below say how one is established and how it is contested.
How far back does the free search reach?
The page states the window beside the form: a set number of years for a visitor without an account, and the full reach of the plan for a member. A window asked for beyond that reach is narrowed rather than refused, and the page says so when it is.
The finder lists the days. The report places them at the address.
Everything this search returns is the record around a place: which days, how large, how many sources. None of it says what reached one roof.
Run the address and the same archive is searched at the property: the storm, the date, the measured size, the distance and bearing from the roof, and the federal record each figure came from, in a fingerprinted document that states its own method. About a minute.
About this record
Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.
No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and spotters cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.
These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.