The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-03, 393 days ago. Columbia County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-05-15 near Clermont.
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 2025-07-03, around Stottville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Columbia 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 56 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 3 days since 2022.
3 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 23%, or about one hail day in 4, the last on 2018-05-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not June. 6 of the 13 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of New York, see the New York hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Canaan -- 3 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Germantown (3), Clermont (2), Kinderhook (2) and Livingston (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Valatie, Ancram, Copake, Greenport Center, Chatham, Claverack and Canaan Center on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Germantown | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Kinderhook | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Valatie | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Ancram | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Greenport Center | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 13 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (100%). June is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Stottville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-05-15 | 2.75″ | 11 |
| 2017-06-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-08-04 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-07-07 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2013-05-21 | 2.50″ | 15 |
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 2.75 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), Albany County (20) and Ulster County (17). Every one of them takes more hail than Columbia County.
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Columbia County, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.