The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-01, 121 days ago. Athens County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2016-04-28 near Amesville.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Ohio. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-04-01, around Athens. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Athens 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 28 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 2023, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 14 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2016-04-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. 5 of the 14 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Athens -- 6 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Coolville (4), Nelsonville (3), Buchtel (3) and The Plains (3). That one town is named on 43% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Glouster on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Nelsonville | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Athens | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Coolville | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 4 Sw Glouster | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Buchtel | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs February through July: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (86%). March is the single busiest month, with 3 of them (21%). 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 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Athens. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-02-27 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-03-23 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-26 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2019-05-17 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-10 | 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 2.5 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, over the state line included: Perry County (17 hail days), Washington County (22), Fairfield County (20) and Wood County, West Virginia (17). Every one of them takes more hail than Athens County.
Perry County · Washington County · Fairfield County · Wood County, West Virginia
Back to the Ohio hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Athens County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.