The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-07, 146 days ago. Fairfield 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 2022-05-03 near Nw Lancaster.
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 2026-03-07, around Amanda. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Fairfield 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 39 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 20 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2022-05-03. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lancaster -- 7 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Baltimore (5), Amanda (4), Lithopolis (2) and Pickerington (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Sugar Grove on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Lancaster | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 1 E Lancaster | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Pickerington | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Sugar Grove | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 17 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March and August, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Amanda. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2024-04-17 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-03 | 2.50″ | 8 |
| 2020-06-04 | 1.50″ | 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: Perry County (17 hail days), Licking County (20) and Franklin County (33). Fairfield County sits in between.
Perry County · Licking County · Franklin 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, Fairfield County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.