Lake County, Ohio Hail Map & History
Lake County was hit as recently as 2026-08-22, 17 days ago. Lake 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 2011-08-01 near Mentor.
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 2026-08-22, around Willowick. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lake 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 27 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2013 alone produced 3 of the 13 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 2011-08-01. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in August, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Lake County
Reports cluster nearest Willowick -- 3 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Madison (3), Mentor (2), Kirtland (2) and Willoughby (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Madison | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Mentor | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Willowick | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Kirtland | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Willoughby | 2 | 1.50″ |
When it hails in Lake County
The season runs May through August: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (46%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
Recent Lake County hail days
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Willowick. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-22 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-05-21 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2014-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-09-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2013-06-12 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2013-05-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
How to read the Lake 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 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: Geauga County (15 hail days), Cuyahoga County (28) and Ashtabula County (16). Every one of them takes more hail than Lake County.
Geauga County · Cuyahoga County · Ashtabula County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lake County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.