The most recent reported hail day was 2019-05-28 -- 7 years ago, with nothing reported since. Cambria County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2019-05-28 near Flinton.
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 2019-05-28, around Flinton. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cambria 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 16 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 10 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2010 alone produced 4 of the 13 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 0 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2019-05-28. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 13 days.
Across the whole of Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Chickaree -- 3 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Portage (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Chickaree | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Portage | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Sw Flinton | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 W South Fork | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Geistown | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). May is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (62%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in April and October, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Flinton. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-28 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-05-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-05-19 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2018-05-15 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2016-07-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-05-13 | 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 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: Indiana County (20 hail days), Armstrong County (13) and Westmoreland County (37). Cambria County sits in between.
Indiana County · Armstrong County · Westmoreland County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cambria County, Pennsylvania only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.