Kalamazoo County was hit as recently as 2026-07-03, 28 days ago. Kalamazoo County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2024-05-07 near Portage.
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 2026-07-03, around Galesburg. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kalamazoo 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 24 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 3 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 7 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
3 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 18%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2024-05-07. They land in the same month as everything else, April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of Michigan, see the Michigan hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Galesburg -- 3 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Portage (2), Oshtemo (2), Vicksburg (2) and Climax (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Kalamazoo on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Oshtemo | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Vicksburg | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 Ese Cooper | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 N Galesburg | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 NW Portage | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (24%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February and March, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Galesburg. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-07 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-15 | 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 2 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: St. Joseph County (14 hail days), Allegan County (13) and Cass County (14). Kalamazoo County takes more hail than any of them.
St. Joseph County · Allegan County · Cass County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kalamazoo County, Michigan only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.