Montcalm County was hit as recently as 2026-06-16, 45 days ago. Montcalm 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 2020-04-07 near Six Lakes.
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 Sidney. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Montcalm 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. Those days carry 27 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2014 alone produced 4 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 0.9 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Montcalm County: all 13 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Michigan, see the Michigan hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Edmore -- 3 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Six Lakes (2), Vestaburg (2), Greenville (2) and Stanton (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Six Lakes | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Nnw Greenville | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Edmore | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Trufant | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NW Sand Lake | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through September: 12 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (92%). April is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 4 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Sidney. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-11-06 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2021-09-12 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-04-07 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-09-11 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2019-08-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-08-14 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2014-07-27 | 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 1.75 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: Kent County (24 hail days), Allegan County (13) and Ingham County (16). Montcalm County sits in between.
Kent County · Allegan County · Ingham County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Montcalm County, Michigan only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.