Kent County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Kent 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 2011-04-26 near Byron Center.
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 2026-06-16, around Rockford. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Kent 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 46 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 24 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2011-04-26. 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 24 days.
Across the whole of Michigan, see the Michigan hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Cedar Springs -- 4 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Byron Center (3), Grandville (3), Sand Lake (2) and Grand Rapids (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Cascade, Kentwood, Ada, Comstock Park, East Grand Rapids and Walker on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| East Grand Rapids | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Grandville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 N Byron Center | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 W Sand Lake | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Ssw Grandville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through August: 21 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (88%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Rockford. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-10 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-08-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-20 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-11-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-09-21 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2021-09-13 | 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: Montcalm County (13 hail days), Allegan County (13) and Kalamazoo County (17). Kent County takes more hail than any of them.
Montcalm County · Allegan County · Kalamazoo County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Kent County, Michigan only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.