Hail in Northwest Arkansas

What this map shows

Every dot is a hail report logged by NOAA / NWS in the last 30 days, color-coded by stone size. Bigger dots and darker colors mean larger hail — which usually means more insurance claims and more leads to chase.

The map covers Fayetteville, Bentonville, Rogers, Springdale, and the surrounding I-49 corridor.

Why 1.5" matters for roofers

For most insurance carriers, 1.5" or larger hail is the rough threshold for a full roof replacement claim. Anything smaller usually triggers a partial repair claim or gets denied outright. Knocking neighborhoods that took 1.5"+ stones — within a week or two of the storm, before competitors arrive — is the highest-yield strategy in storm restoration.

How Northwest Arkansas roofers use this

The pattern is simple:

• Check the map after every storm in your service area
• Note the ZIP codes / neighborhoods inside the strike zone
• Send knockers to those specific streets before the rest of the city saturates
• Use a CRM to track which leads accepted inspections and which closed claims

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Where this data comes from

NOAA's National Weather Service collects hail reports from trained spotters, public submissions, and 911 calls. They're published in real-time as Local Storm Reports (LSRs). RidgeLink pulls the latest reports for Northwest Arkansas directly from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's public IEM data feed.

The reports are not exhaustive — small or rural events sometimes don't get reported — but they're the most reliable public dataset for storm-restoration roofers in the United States.