The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-21 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Albany 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 2015-07-19 near Selkirk.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in New York. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2024-05-21, around Guilderland Center. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Albany 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 49 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 2019, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 2 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
2 of the 20 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2015-07-19. They land in the same month as everything else, July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of New York, see the New York hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Latham -- 5 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Albany (3), Watervliet (2), Colonie (2) and Loudonville (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Boght Corners, Cohoes, Hampton Manor and Voorheesville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Latham | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Watervliet | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Colonie | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 Wsw Hampton Manor | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Albany | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs June through August: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). July is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in May and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 3 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 7 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Guilderland Center. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-08-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-23 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2020-06-05 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-08-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-08-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-03 | 1.00″ | 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 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: Rensselaer County (17 hail days), Saratoga County (32) and Columbia County (13). Albany County sits in between.
Rensselaer County · Saratoga County · Columbia County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Albany County, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.