The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-03, 393 days ago. Northampton County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2010-05-27 near Lehigh University.
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 2025-07-03, around Bethlehem. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Northampton 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 14 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 21 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Northampton County: all 14 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 1 of the 14 days.
Across the whole of Pennsylvania, see the Pennsylvania hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest North Catasauqua -- 5 of the county's 14 hail days -- then Bethlehem (2) and Danielsville (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| North Catasauqua | 5 | 1.50″ |
| Danielsville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Se Lehigh University | 1 | 1.75″ |
| Moore Twp | 1 | 1.50″ |
| Northampton | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through July: 12 of the 14 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (86%). July is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (29%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in August, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Bethlehem. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-30 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2022-08-22 | 1.00″ | 5 |
| 2021-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-08-18 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2015-06-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-07-09 | 1.50″ | 2 |
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: Lehigh County (13 hail days), Montgomery County (23) and Berks County (24). Northampton County sits in between.
Lehigh County · Montgomery County · Berks County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Northampton County, Pennsylvania only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.