The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-21 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Grand Traverse County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.5 inches, a ping-pong ball and 1.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-06-20 near Bates.
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 2025-06-21, around Traverse City. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Grand Traverse 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 27 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 7 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Grand Traverse County: all 18 hail days on record topped out below that.
Across the whole of Michigan, see the Michigan hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Traverse City -- 8 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Interlochen (2), Fife Lake (2) and Kingsley (2). That one town is named on 44% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 2 WNW Traverse City | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Kingsley | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 NE Bates | 1 | 1.50″ |
| 1 WNW Traverse City | 1 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Sw Traverse City | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through July: 16 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (89%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (28%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Traverse City. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-20 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2024-04-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-22 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-24 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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 1.5 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: Montcalm County (13 hail days), Bay County (15) and Menominee County (14). Grand Traverse County takes more hail than any of them.
Montcalm County · Bay County · Menominee County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Grand Traverse County, Michigan only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.