Gallia County, Ohio Hail Map & History
Gallia County was hit as recently as 2026-08-10, 29 days ago. Gallia County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.2 inches and 2.2 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2014-04-29 near Kyger.
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 2026-08-10, around Cheshire. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Gallia 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 26 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 3 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2014-04-29. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. More than half of every hail day on record here -- 7 of 13 -- reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Gallia County
Reports cluster nearest Crown City -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Gallipolis (4), Cheshire (2), Rio Grande (2) and Vinton (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gallipolis | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 5 N Crown City | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Rio Grande | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Cheshire | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 7 Sw Kyger | 1 | 2.20″ |
When it hails in Gallia County
The season runs March through June: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (38%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in August and October, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 5 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 1 |
Recent Gallia County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Cheshire. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-10 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-07 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-18 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2018-10-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-04-03 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2016-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Gallia County map
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 2.2 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Lawrence County (16 hail days), Scioto County (14), Athens County (14), Mason County, West Virginia (16) and Jackson County, West Virginia (17). Every one of them takes more hail than Gallia County.
Lawrence County · Scioto County · Athens County · Mason County, West Virginia · Jackson County, West Virginia
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Gallia County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.