The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-03, 393 days ago. Ulster County is hit in most years. 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 2020-06-29 near New Paltz.
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 2025-07-03, around Kingston. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ulster 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. Those days carry 38 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Ulster County: all 17 hail days on record topped out below that. 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 Saugerties -- 4 of the county's 17 hail days -- then Kingston (3), New Paltz (2), Tillson (2) and Rosendale (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Kingston | 3 | 1.00″ |
| New Paltz | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Rosendale | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Saugerties | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Tillson | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through July: 14 of the 17 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (35%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. 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 |
|---|---|
| May | 4 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Kingston. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-05-16 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2021-07-17 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2020-06-29 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2018-05-15 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2015-07-26 | 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 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: Dutchess County (22 hail days), Columbia County (13) and Orange County (16). Ulster County sits in between.
Dutchess County · Columbia County · Orange County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ulster County, New York only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.