The most recent reported hail day was 2023-08-12 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Erie County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2010-05-07 near Sandusky.
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 2023-08-12, around Castalia. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Erie 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. They carry 22 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 2 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 15 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2010-05-07. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not July. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 15 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Sandusky -- 9 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Milan (3), Huron (3) and Castalia (2). That one town is named on 60% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Sandusky | 5 | 2.00″ |
| Huron | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Milan | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 WSW Sandusky South | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 ESE Castalia | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 13 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (87%). July is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (33%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and October, 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 | 2 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Castalia. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-12 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2020-10-23 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-07-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-08-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-16 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2015-06-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-05-21 | 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 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: Huron County (14 hail days), Sandusky County (20) and Ottawa County (16). Erie County sits in between.
Huron County · Sandusky County · Ottawa County
Back to the Ohio hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Erie County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.