The most recent reported hail day was 2022-06-28 -- 4 years ago, with nothing reported since. Ashland County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-04-10 near Odanah.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Wisconsin. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2022-06-28, around Morse. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Ashland 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 23 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2020, with 2 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
2 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 13%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2020-09-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 5 of the 15 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Wisconsin, see the Wisconsin hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Butternut -- 4 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Odanah (2), Morse (2), High Bridge (2) and Marengo (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Ashland and La Pointe on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Odanah | 2 | 3.00″ |
| High Bridge | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Nw Morse | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 4 W Marengo | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 7 Ene Butternut | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs May through July: 12 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (80%). June is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (47%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 1 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 7 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Morse. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-10 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2020-09-25 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-06-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-14 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2017-07-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-16 | 1.50″ | 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 3 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: Bayfield County (26 hail days), Sawyer County (30) and Price County (22). Every one of them takes more hail than Ashland County.
Bayfield County · Sawyer County · Price County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Ashland County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.