Erie County, Pennsylvania Hail Map & History
Erie County was hit as recently as 2026-09-02, 12 days ago. Erie 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 2023-07-20 near Corry.
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 2026-09-02, around Harborcreek. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Erie 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 21 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 42 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 4 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
2 of the 21 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2023-07-20. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 7 of the 21 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Erie County
Reports cluster nearest Erie -- 6 of the county's 21 hail days -- then Edinboro (4), Corry (3), Wattsburg (3) and Union City (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Elgin, Waterford, Cranesville and Harborcreek on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Erie | 4 | 1.25″ |
| Corry | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Edinboro | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Elgin | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Waterford | 2 | 1.25″ |
When it hails in Erie County
The season runs April through August: 19 of the 21 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (90%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 3 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
Recent Erie County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Harborcreek. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-07-21 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-10-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-20 | 2.00″ | 8 |
| 2020-04-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-15 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2019-04-14 | 2.00″ | 5 |
How to read the Erie 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 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, over the state line included: Crawford County (26 hail days), Venango County (18), Mercer County (27), Chautauqua County, New York (15) and Ashtabula County, Ohio (16). Erie County sits in between.
Crawford County · Venango County · Mercer County · Chautauqua County, New York · Ashtabula County, Ohio
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Erie County, Pennsylvania only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.