The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-14, 108 days ago. Dodge 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 2025-05-15 near Lac La Belle.
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 2026-04-14, around Watertown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dodge 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 60 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 12 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 30 days on record passed it, 3%, the last on 2025-05-15. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not April.
Across the whole of Wisconsin, see the Wisconsin hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Beaver Dam -- 9 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Waupun (6), Watertown (5), Theresa (4) and Horicon (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Juneau, Lomira and Reeseville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Beaver Dam | 4 | 1.50″ |
| 1 N Watertown | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Theresa | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Juneau | 3 | 1.25″ |
| Horicon | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs April through September: 27 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (90%). April is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in March, October and November, outside that window. January, February and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 9 |
| May | 8 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 5 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Watertown. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2026-04-02 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-09-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-15 | 2.00″ | 14 |
| 2025-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-06-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-27 | 1.25″ | 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 2 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: Washington County (25 hail days), Fond du Lac County (13) and Jefferson County (24). Dodge County takes more hail than any of them.
Washington County · Fond du Lac County · Jefferson County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dodge County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.