The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-15, 107 days ago. Portage 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 2020-03-28 near Sugar Bush Knolls.
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 Brimfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Portage 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 44 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 7 of the 24 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 24 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2020-03-28. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not May. 8 of the 24 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 Ravenna -- 12 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Mantua (4), Streetsboro (4), Brimfield (3) and Aurora (3). That one town is named on 50% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Hiram and Mogadore on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ravenna | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Mantua | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Streetsboro | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Aurora | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Nne Brimfield | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through August: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (29%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, March 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 | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 7 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Brimfield. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-12 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2020-03-28 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-08-18 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-28 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-30 | 1.25″ | 2 |
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: Summit County (30 hail days), Geauga County (14) and Stark County (29). Portage County sits in between.
Summit County · Geauga County · Stark County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Portage County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.