The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-10, 143 days ago. Livingston County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2026-03-10 near Campus.
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 2026-03-10, around Campus. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Livingston 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 45 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
3 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2026-03-10. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. 7 of the 19 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 Pontiac -- 6 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Chatsworth (6), Fairbury (3), Dwight (3) and Saunemin (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Emington, Cornell, Flanagan and Streator on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Chatsworth | 5 | 1.25″ |
| Pontiac | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Dwight | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Flanagan | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 NE Campus | 1 | 5.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 16 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (26%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 15 reports on the map, the biggest 5 inches near Campus. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-10 | 5.00″ | 15 |
| 2025-05-15 | 3.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-04-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-29 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-07-23 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-15 | 1.75″ | 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 5 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: Grundy County (14 hail days), Kankakee County (29) and Iroquois County (16). Livingston County sits in between.
Grundy County · Kankakee County · Iroquois County
Back to the Illinois hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Livingston County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.