Franklin County was hit as recently as 2026-06-06, 55 days ago. Franklin County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2023-07-24 near Westerville.
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 2026-06-06, around Dublin. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Franklin 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 92 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2024, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 13 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Franklin County: all 33 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 33 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Grove City -- 7 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Downtown Columbus (7), Dublin (6), Hilliard (4) and Westerville (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Worthington, Gahanna, Grandview Heights, Reynoldsburg, Upper Arlington, Whitehall, Minerva Park, Groveport and Huber Ridge on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 2 N Downtown Columbus | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Dublin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Worthington | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 2 N New Albany | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Grove City | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs February through July: 27 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (82%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, September and October, outside that window. January, November and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 4 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Dublin. 3 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-06 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-22 | 1.25″ | 5 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1.50″ | 9 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-03-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-02-27 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-09-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-15 | 1.00″ | 4 |
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: Delaware County (16 hail days), Union County (17) and Fairfield County (20). Franklin County takes more hail than any of them.
Delaware County · Union County · Fairfield 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, Franklin County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.