The most recent reported hail day was 2023-06-06 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Rensselaer 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 2011-06-01 near Eagle Bridge.
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 2023-06-06, around Pittstown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Rensselaer 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 17 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.0 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 30 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2014 alone produced 4 of the 17 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.3 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 17 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2011-06-01. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not August. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 17 days.
Across the whole of New York, see the New York hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest East Greenbush -- 4 of the county's 17 hail days -- then North Greenbush (3), Rensselaer (2), Grafton (2) and Troy (2). Beyond those, NOAA names East Nassau on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| East Greenbush | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Rensselaer | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Grafton | 2 | 1.50″ |
| East Nassau | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Eagle Bridge | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs June through August: 15 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (88%). August is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in May, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| May | 2 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 6 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Pittstown. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-06 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-08-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-08-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-08-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-08-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-27 | 1.25″ | 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 2.75 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: Albany County (20 hail days), Saratoga County (32) and Columbia County (13). Rensselaer County sits in between.
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Rensselaer County, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.