The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-16, 106 days ago. Fulton 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 2014-05-22 near Perth.
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 2026-04-16, around Mayfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Fulton 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 33 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 15 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2014-05-22. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 15 days.
Across the whole of New York, see the New York hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Perth -- 4 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Broadalbin (3), Caroga Lake (3), Ephratah (3) and Gloversville (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Johnstown on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Perth | 4 | 2.25″ |
| Ephratah | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Broadalbin | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Caroga Lake | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 S Perth | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (27%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Mayfield. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-29 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2017-08-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-18 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2016-06-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-03 | 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: Saratoga County (32 hail days), Herkimer County (20) and Albany County (20). Every one of them takes more hail than Fulton County.
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Fulton County, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.