The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-08 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Orange County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-05-21 near Buena Ventura Lak.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Florida. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-05-08, around Apopka. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Orange County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 36 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 70 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 11 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Orange County: all 36 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 36 days.
Across the whole of Florida, see the Florida hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Azalea Park -- 7 of the county's 36 hail days -- then Apopka (4), Conway (3), Buena Ventura Lake (3) and Altamonte Springs (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Buena Ventura Lak, Lake Apopka, Winter Garden, Christmas, Ocoee, Avalon Park, Bay Lake, Maitland and Oak Ridge on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 4 S Altamonte Springs | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 Nw Buena Ventura Lake | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 S Apopka | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Maitland | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Nne Buena Ventura Lak | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through July: 29 of the 36 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (81%). May is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, March, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 13 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Apopka. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-04 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2023-09-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-11 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Seminole County (23 hail days), Osceola County (19) and Lake County (17). Orange County takes more hail than any of them.
Seminole County · Osceola County · Lake County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Orange County, Florida only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.