The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-26, 127 days ago. Hancock 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 2011-05-25 near Findlay.
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 2026-03-26, around Van Buren. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Hancock 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 35 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 2017, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
2 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2011-05-25. 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 4 of the 19 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Findlay -- 5 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Vanlue (4), Arlington (4), Mccomb (4) and Van Buren (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Mount Cory and Mount Blanchard on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Mccomb | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Vanlue | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Arlington | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 S Arlington | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Mount Blanchard | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 18 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (95%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (26%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 5 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Van Buren. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-03-28 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2019-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-28 | 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: Allen County (13 hail days), Seneca County (17) and Wood County (16). Hancock County takes more hail than any of them.
Allen County · Seneca County · Wood County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Hancock County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.