The most recent reported hail day was 2021-07-02 -- 5 years ago, with nothing reported since. Bradford 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 2012-09-06 near Sayre.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Pennsylvania. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2021-07-02, around East Smithfield. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bradford 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 18 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 36 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 6 of the 18 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 0 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 18 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2012-09-06. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in September, not August. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 18 days.
Across the whole of Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Towanda -- 4 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Troy (3), Sayre (2) and Warren Center (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Towanda | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Sayre | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Warren Center | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Se Granville Center | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Orwell | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through August: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). August is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (28%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in April and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 5 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near East Smithfield. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-02 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-30 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-19 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-08-12 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2016-07-25 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2015-08-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-08-05 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-02 | 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 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, over the state line included: Susquehanna County (20 hail days), Lackawanna County (13), Luzerne County (22), Tioga County, New York (14) and Chemung County, New York (14). Bradford County sits in between.
Susquehanna County · Lackawanna County · Luzerne County · Tioga County, New York · Chemung County, New York
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bradford County, Pennsylvania only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.