The most recent reported hail day was 2026-03-22, 131 days ago. Wayne 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 2017-03-30 near Dalton.
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 2026-03-22, around Rittman. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Wayne 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 27 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 22 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2017-03-30. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Ohio, see the Ohio hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Wooster -- 6 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Dalton (3), Smithville (3), Apple Creek (2) and Orrville (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Rittman and West Salem on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Dalton | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Smithville | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Apple Creek | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Rittman | 2 | 1.00″ |
| West Salem | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through July: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (82%). June is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 3 |
| April | 1 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Rittman. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-05 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-15 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-25 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-03-30 | 2.00″ | 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), Holmes County (17) and Ashland County (21). Wayne County takes more hail than any of them.
Medina County · Holmes County · Ashland County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Wayne County, Ohio only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.