Summit County, Ohio Hail Map & History
Summit County was hit as recently as 2026-09-03, 11 days ago. Summit County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2020-03-28 near Akron.
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 2026-09-03, around Lakemore. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Summit 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 32 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 66 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 8 of the 32 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 32 days on record passed it, 6%, 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. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 32 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Summit County
Reports cluster nearest Akron -- 13 of the county's 32 hail days -- then Barberton (6), Mogadore (5), Lakemore (4) and Tallmadge (3). That one town is named on 41% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Cuyahoga Falls, Silver Lake, Fairlawn, Macedonia, Northfield and Twinsburg on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Akron | 9 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Lakemore | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 1 NW Barberton | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Barberton | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Tallmadge | 2 | 2.00″ |
When it hails in Summit County
The season runs April through August: 27 of the 32 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (25%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in 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 |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 8 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 6 |
| September | 2 |
| October | 1 |
Recent Summit County hail days
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Lakemore. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-03 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2026-08-10 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2026-06-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-03-22 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-06-17 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2022-06-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Summit County map
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 2.5 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Portage County (24 hail days), Medina County (17) and Stark County (30). Summit County takes more hail than any of them.
Portage County · Medina County · Stark County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Summit County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.