The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-13, 109 days ago. Chippewa County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2023-07-28 near Bloomer.
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 2026-04-13, around Cornell. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Chippewa 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 36 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 9 days since 2022.
3 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 12%, or about one hail day in 8, the last on 2025-05-15. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 7 of the 24 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 Bloomer -- 6 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Cornell (6), Chippewa Falls (4), Holcombe (2) and Tilden (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Cadott and Stanley on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Chippewa Falls | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Cornell | 2 | 1.25″ |
| 2 S Chippewa Falls | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 Nnw Bloomer | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 Nne Cornell | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through July: 21 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in 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 | 3 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 7 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Cornell. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2025-07-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-15 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-05-18 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-28 | 3.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-10 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 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 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: Eau Claire County (20 hail days), Dunn County (23) and Barron County (24). Chippewa County sits in between.
Eau Claire County · Dunn County · Barron County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Chippewa County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.