The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-22, 131 days ago. Licking 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 2025-04-02 near Buckeye Lake.
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 2026-03-22, around Heath. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Licking 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 41 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2024 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 8 days since 2022, against 1.0 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 20 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2025-04-02. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Newark -- 6 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Heath (5), Johnstown (5), Hanover (3) and Hebron (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Buckeye Lake, Harbor Hills, St. Louisville and Utica on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Newark | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Heath | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Johnstown | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Buckeye Lake | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 1 N Newark | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). March is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 5 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Heath. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-22 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-03-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-02-27 | 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: Fairfield County (20 hail days), Knox County (17) and Perry County (17). Licking County sits in between.
Fairfield County · Knox County · Perry County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Licking County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.