The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Fayette 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 2025-05-16 near Greenfield.
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 2025-05-16, around Greenfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Fayette 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 20 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2025-05-16. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 2 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Washington Court House -- 5 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Greenfield (2), Jeffersonville (2) and Bloomingburg (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Washington Court House | 5 | 1.00″ |
| 2 N Greenfield | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 5 NW Greenfield | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 6 NE Leesburg | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 E Jeffersonville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through May: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in July, outside that window. Reports span 4 of the 12 calendar months; the other 8 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| July | 2 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Greenfield. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2020-04-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-07-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-05-11 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2012-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-03-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2011-07-11 | 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 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: Clinton County (18 hail days), Highland County (14) and Ross County (14). Every one of them takes more hail than Fayette County.
Clinton County · Highland County · Ross County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Fayette County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.