New York was hit as recently as 2026-07-18, 13 days ago. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 283 separate hail days in New York since 2010, across 1,613 individual storm reports. 35 of those days brought hail 2 inches or larger, and the largest stone on record is 4 inches on 2014-05-22 near Amsterdam, Montgomery.
New York's upstate corridor -- Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse -- takes summer hail from frontal convection. Pick a date below to see the NOAA radar swath and reports, or check a specific address.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in New York. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
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See call-center options ->New York averages 17 reported hail days a year across 17 years of NOAA archive, about 2 of them carrying hail 2″ or larger -- the size that routinely totals roofs. Major metros watched here: Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany.
New York's busiest hail month is July, with 71 of its 283 hail days on record. May through August holds 242 of them, 86% of the record.
| Month | Hail days since 2010 |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 49 |
| June | 65 |
| July | 71 |
| August | 57 |
| September | 18 |
| October | 7 |
| November | 2 |
| County | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Oneida | 37 | 2.50″ |
| Saratoga | 32 | 2.75″ |
| Broome | 28 | 3.00″ |
| Dutchess | 22 | 2.75″ |
| Otsego | 21 | 3.00″ |
| Albany | 20 | 2.00″ |
31 New York counties have at least 13 NOAA hail days on record since 2010 -- enough archive signal for a page of their own. Ordered by hail days.
Oneida County · Saratoga County · Broome County · Dutchess County · Otsego County · Albany County · Essex County · Herkimer County · Cayuga County · Onondaga County · Delaware County · Madison County · Chenango County · Clinton County · Rensselaer County · Steuben County · Ulster County · Orange County · Chautauqua County · Erie County · Fulton County · St. Lawrence County · Suffolk County · Tompkins County · Chemung County · Oswego County · Rockland County · Sullivan County · Tioga County · Columbia County · Washington County
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-14 | 2.75″ | 5 |
| 2026-06-11 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-03-31 | 1.75″ | 17 |
| 2026-03-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-02-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-11-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail in each ~1 km cell; the dots are individual SPC ground reports. Yellow is around an inch, red is 1.5 to 2″, and purple is 2″ and up -- see how hail size maps to roof damage. Click any spot on the map to see the hail history at that point, or look up a full street address on the hail history by address tool. Today's nationwide activity is on today's hail report.
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.