The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-15, 107 days ago. Lorain County is hit in most years. 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 2013-06-12 near Rochester.
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 2026-04-15, around Kipton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lorain 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 57 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 25 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 25 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2013-06-12. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in June, not May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 6 of the 25 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Elyria -- 7 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Grafton (5), Lorain (4), Lagrange (4) and Avon (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Vermilion, Wellington, Amherst, Penfield, Sheffield Lake and South Amherst on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Elyria | 5 | 1.00″ |
| Grafton | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Lagrange | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Vermilion | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Amherst | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs April through July: 20 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 11 of them (44%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, March, August and October, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 11 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Kipton. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-15 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-05-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-22 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-08-23 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2023-07-20 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-10-08 | 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: Medina County (16 hail days), Cuyahoga County (27) and Huron County (14). Lorain County sits in between.
Medina County · Cuyahoga County · Huron County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lorain County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.