Hail in Dakota Ridge, CO on August 15, 2026
Radar-estimated up to 2.5" (tennis ball size)
Weather radar estimated hail of up to 2.5" (tennis ball size) over Dakota Ridge between 1:29 PM and 1:37 PM, from 8 separate radar hail signatures inside the town. No spotter or NOAA ground report was filed inside the town that day, which is common: most hail falls where nobody is measuring it.
What tennis ball-size hail does to a roof
Hail this large routinely cracks and punctures asphalt shingles, dents metal vents and gutters, and can break skylights. Damage is often visible from the ground, but bruised shingles that look intact can still fail early. Radar describes the storm, not your shingles: the only way to know what a particular roof took is an inspection. Most homeowner policies set a deadline for reporting storm damage, so check your policy.
Every home inside a storm's radar footprint, scored by roof age, material and hail history, sold to a few roofers only so you are not the twentieth truck on the street.
Other Colorado towns hit on August 15
- Morrison, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 2.5" (tennis ball size)
- Lone Tree, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size)
- Meridian Village, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size)
- Stepping Stone, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 2.25" (hen egg size)
- Grand View Estates, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 2" (hen egg size)
- Indian Hills, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 2" (hen egg size)
- Sierra Ridge, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 2" (hen egg size)
- Aurora, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Sterling, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Ken Caryl, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Peoria, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- Denver, CO · Aug 15, 2026radar up to 1" (quarter size)
Other hail days in Dakota Ridge
- June 24, 2026radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size) · 1 report
- April 26, 2024radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- July 8, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size) · 1 report
- June 29, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size)
- June 22, 2023radar up to 1.75" (golf ball size) · 2 reports
- June 12, 2023radar up to 1.25" (half dollar size)
- July 26, 2022radar up to 1.5" (ping-pong ball size)
Radar sizes are estimates from NEXRAD hail signatures (NOAA Severe Weather Data Inventory) for the largest stones in a storm cell, not a measurement at any one home. Ground reports are National Weather Service local storm reports and the NOAA Storm Events Database, as filed. Town-level data only; this page shows no addresses and no homeowner information.