The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Highland County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times 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 Highland 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 27 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 3 of the 14 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 14 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2025-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 4 of the 14 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Leesburg -- 4 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Hillsboro (4), Greenfield (2), New Market (2) and Buford (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hillsboro | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Leesburg | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Greenfield | 2 | 3.00″ |
| New Market | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NNW Leesburg | 1 | 2.50″ |
The season runs April through August: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). May is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January and March, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 3 inches near Greenfield. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 3.00″ | 4 |
| 2023-01-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-20 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2019-05-23 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2016-04-26 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2015-08-03 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2015-06-26 | 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 3 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), Fayette County (13) and Ross County (14). Highland County sits in between.
Clinton County · Fayette County · Ross 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, Highland County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.