The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-31, 122 days ago. Steuben County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2025-06-05 near Pulteney.
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 2026-03-31, around Avoca. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Steuben 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. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 17 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-06-05. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 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 Prattsburg -- 4 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Bath (3), Pulteney (2), Avoca (2) and Hornell (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Prattsburg | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Bath | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Hornell | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Pulteney | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 2 SSW Pulteney | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs March through June: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (47%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 8 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Avoca. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 1.00″ | 4 |
| 2025-06-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-05 | 3.00″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-09-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2016-06-20 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-08-05 | 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 3 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: Chemung County (14 hail days), Tompkins County (15) and Tioga County (14). Steuben County takes more hail than any of them.
Chemung County · Tompkins County · Tioga County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Steuben County, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.