Dutchess County was hit as recently as 2026-06-11, 50 days ago. Dutchess County is hit in most years. 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 2011-06-08 near Red Hook.
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 2026-06-11, around Pawling. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dutchess 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 62 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 22 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2011-06-08. They land in the same month as everything else, June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of New York, see the New York hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Rhinebeck -- 4 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Hopewell Junction (3), Poughkeepsie (3), Poughquag (3) and Lagrangeville (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Wappingers Falls, Beacon, Pawling, Fishkill and Red Oaks Mill on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Rhinebeck | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Hopewell Junction | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Lagrangeville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Beacon | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Red Hook | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs June through August: 19 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (36%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. 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 | 2 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Pawling. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-11 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2025-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-23 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-27 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2019-08-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-30 | 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 2.75 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: Ulster County (17 hail days), Orange County (16) and Rockland County (14). Dutchess County takes more hail than any of them.
Ulster County · Orange County · Rockland County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dutchess County, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.