Guides

Weather records for insurance claims

Plain-language guides to finding and reading public weather records for a property and a date of loss.

• How to get NOAA weather data for an insurance claimStep by step: find storm reports, NOAA Storm Events, station wind measurements, warnings and radar hail for your address and date of loss, all from free public sources.
• How to check the weather on your date of lossWhy the date of loss matters for a weather claim, how to confirm which day the storm hit your address, and what to do when the damage was found days or weeks later.
• How to find the wind speed at an address on a specific dateWind is measured at weather stations, not at every address. How to find the nearest station, read gusts versus sustained wind, and judge how close the measurement is.