The most recent reported hail day was 2025-06-28, 398 days ago. Lancaster County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-09-05 near Lancaster.
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 2025-06-28, around Mountville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lancaster 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 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 50 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Lancaster County: all 28 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 1 of the 28 days.
Across the whole of Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Lancaster -- 5 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Elizabethtown (3), Manheim (3), Millersville (3) and Leola (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Marietta, Denver, Ephrata, Landisville, Maytown, New Holland and Strasburg on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lancaster | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Millersville | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 4 S Leola | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Elizabethtown | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Ephrata | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs May through July: 24 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (86%). June is the single busiest month, with 10 of them (36%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in February, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 10 |
| July | 8 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Mountville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-28 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-07-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-02 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2022-07-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-20 | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: York County (27 hail days), Berks County (24) and Dauphin County (18). Lancaster County takes more hail than any of them.
York County · Berks County · Dauphin County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.