The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-18 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Houghton County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-09-13 near Mass City.
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 2024-05-18, around Calumet. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Houghton 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 19 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Houghton County: all 13 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Michigan, see the Michigan hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Chassell -- 3 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Calumet (3), Houghton (2), Nisula (2) and Redridge (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Calumet | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Houghton | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 10 E Mass City | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 10 E Ontonagon | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 Ese Chassell | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs June through September: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). September is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in May, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 2 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Calumet. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-18 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-09-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-08-05 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2017-09-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
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 1.75 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, over the state line included: Marquette County (29 hail days), Alger County (14), Menominee County (14), Vilas County, Wisconsin (13) and Oneida County, Wisconsin (16). Houghton County sits in between.
Marquette County · Alger County · Menominee County · Vilas County, Wisconsin · Oneida County, Wisconsin
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Houghton County, Michigan only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.