The most recent reported hail day was 2024-07-10 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Essex 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 2020-10-10 near Elizabethtown.
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 2024-07-10, around St. Huberts. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Essex 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. They carry 31 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 5 of the 20 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Essex County: all 20 hail days on record topped out below that. 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 Ticonderoga -- 4 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Elizabethtown (2), Moriah (2), Schroon Lake (2) and Keeseville (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ticonderoga | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Moriah | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 E Elizabethtown | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Elizabethtown | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 SSW St. Huberts | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 18 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (90%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (40%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 8 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near St. Huberts. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-10 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-09-07 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-04 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-13 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2020-10-10 | 1.75″ | 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 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: Clinton County (17 hail days), Washington County (13) and Saratoga County (32). Essex County sits in between.
Clinton County · Washington County · Saratoga County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Essex County, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.