Champaign County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Champaign County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2015-04-09 near Mahomet.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Illinois. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-06-16, around Ogden. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Champaign 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 31 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 74 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2015, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 10 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 31 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2022-09-18. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 8 of the 31 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Illinois, see the Illinois hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Champaign -- 8 of the county's 31 hail days -- then Mahomet (5), Fisher (5), Rantoul (3) and Seymour (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Urbana, Philo, Dewey, Foosland, Sidney, Saint Joseph, Gifford, Pesotum and St. Joseph on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mahomet | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Fisher | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Champaign | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Philo | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Foosland | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs February through July: 26 of the 31 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| September | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Ogden. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-26 | 1.75″ | 7 |
| 2026-02-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-20 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-02-27 | 1.50″ | 3 |
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 3 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Douglas County (13 hail days), Vermilion County (40) and Moultrie County (16). Champaign County sits in between.
Douglas County · Vermilion County · Moultrie County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Champaign County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.