Public storm record
Storm history near your address
Enter a US address to see documented public hail and wind reports near the area. The results describe nearby reports, not what happened to a specific property.
Five years of reports
The lookup checks the rolling five-year window ending today.
A 15-mile radius
Distances are rounded because public storm-report locations can be approximate.
No property diagnosis
A nearby report does not confirm that a roof was hit or damaged.
The lookup
Check documented reports near the area
Public National Weather Service storm reports, filtered to a 15-mile radius around the address.
Address lookup
Search the public storm record
Enter the property address. Suggestions can fill the city, state, and ZIP when Google Places is available. Manual entry always works. The Census Bureau geocodes it, then the tool checks public NWS hail and wind reports within a straight-line 15-mile radius over the last five years.
Nearby public reports
What the record shows
Enter an address to start.
Results list reports near the geocoded point. They do not say that the address itself was hit.
What this lookup cannot confirm
This is based on public NOAA/NWS storm reports near the area, not a measurement of this specific roof. It does not show whether this property was hit or damaged. Only a documented inspection can confirm actual damage.
A report does not decide insurance coverage. Whether damage is covered is the insurer's decision under the policy.
How to read the result
A report is evidence of a storm nearby
NWS Local Storm Reports are point reports from sources such as trained spotters, public agencies, and observing stations. They are useful records, but they are not a parcel-level hail map or a roof inspection.
The formal NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database is the official historical archive, but it is released on a delay and organized for bulk or county-level access. This tool uses the Iowa Environmental Mesonet archive for a practical request-time geographic search of NWS reports.
Free report data can miss a storm, carry an approximate location, or contain a corrected duplicate. No result is not proof that no storm occurred. A nearby result is not proof that a particular roof was hit.
Confirm the building
Turn a nearby report into a documented roof inspection.
An inspection records what is actually present on the roof. It does not promise insurance coverage or a claim outcome.