Vermilion County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Vermilion County is hit in most years, and usually several times over. 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 2012-06-29 near Danville.
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 Bismarck. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Vermilion 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 40 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 2.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 87 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 7 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
6 of the 40 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-07-17. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 13 of the 40 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 Hoopeston -- 10 of the county's 40 hail days -- then Danville (9), Bismarck (7), Westville (4) and Rossville (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Potomac, Georgetown, Henning, Tilton, Fithian, Rankin, Vermilion Regiona, Collison and Ridge Farm on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hoopeston | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Westville | 4 | 2.75″ |
| 3 W Hoopeston | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Danville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Potomac | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through August: 36 of the 40 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (90%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (22%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, September and November, outside that window. February, October and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 9 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Bismarck. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-26 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-08-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-17 | 2.00″ | 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, over the state line included: Champaign County (31 hail days), Iroquois County (16), Edgar County (15) and Fountain County, Indiana (14). Vermilion County takes more hail than any of them.
Champaign County · Iroquois County · Edgar County · Fountain County, Indiana
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Vermilion County, Illinois only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.