The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-14 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Scioto County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-04-08 near South Webster.
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 2025-04-14, around Franklin Furnace. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Scioto 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 11 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 14 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Scioto County: all 14 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Franklin Furnace -- 3 of the county's 14 hail days -- then South Webster (3), McDermott (2), Minford (2) and Portsmouth (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Nne Franklin Furnace | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Nw South Webster | 1 | 1.75″ |
| S Wheelersburg | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 Ene South Webster | 1 | 1.50″ |
| Franklin Furnace | 1 | 1.50″ |
The season runs March through July: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (86%). April is the single busiest month, with 3 of them (21%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 3 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Franklin Furnace. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2016-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-09-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-07-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-07-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2012-05-01 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2011-09-14 | 1.75″ | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Lawrence County (16 hail days), Ross County (14), Highland County (14) and Carter County, Kentucky (14). Scioto County sits in between.
Lawrence County · Ross County · Highland County · Carter County, Kentucky
Back to the Ohio hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Scioto County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.