The most recent reported hail day was 2023-06-15 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Sandusky County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-05-25 near Bellevue.
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 2023-06-15, around Bellevue. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sandusky 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. They carry 31 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.6 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 2011-05-25. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 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 Bellevue -- 6 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Clyde (5), Fremont (5), Green Springs (3) and Gibsonburg (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Lindsey on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Bellevue | 5 | 2.75″ |
| Clyde | 3 | 2.50″ |
| Green Springs | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Fremont | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Gibsonburg | 2 | 1.50″ |
The season runs May through August: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (25%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January, March, September 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 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Bellevue. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-15 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2021-10-08 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2019-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-01-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-07-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-08-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-07-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-06-13 | 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 2.75 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: Ottawa County (16 hail days), Seneca County (17) and Erie County (15). Sandusky County takes more hail than any of them.
Ottawa County · Seneca County · Erie 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, Sandusky County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.