Berrien County, Michigan Hail Map & History
Berrien County was hit as recently as 2026-08-10, 35 days ago. Berrien County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-06-20 near Eau Claire.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Michigan. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-08-10, around Buchanan. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Berrien 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 46 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 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 22 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2021-06-20. They land in the same month as everything else, June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Michigan, see the Michigan hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Berrien County
Reports cluster nearest Stevensville -- 5 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Berrien Springs (4), Buchanan (4), New Buffalo (3) and Saint Joseph (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Sawyer, Baroda and Niles on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Buchanan | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Stevensville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| New Buffalo | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Saint Joseph | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Baroda | 3 | 1.00″ |
When it hails in Berrien County
The season runs April through August: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (23%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February and March, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 3 |
Recent Berrien County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Buchanan. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-06-16 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-02-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-21 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-20 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2020-08-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Berrien County map
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 2 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Cass County (14 hail days), St. Joseph County (14), Kalamazoo County (17), St. Joseph County, Indiana (21) and La Porte County, Indiana (20). Berrien County takes more hail than any of them.
Cass County · St. Joseph County · Kalamazoo County · St. Joseph County, Indiana · La Porte County, Indiana
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Berrien County, Michigan only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.