La Crosse County was hit as recently as 2026-06-10, 51 days ago. La Crosse County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-07-28 near West Salem.
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 2026-06-10, around New Amsterdam. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls La Crosse 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 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 86 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2021, with 4 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
5 of the 25 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2024-09-21. They land in the same month as everything else, July. 7 of the 25 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 Holmen -- 9 of the county's 25 hail days -- then La Crosse (6), West Salem (5), New Amsterdam (5) and Onalaska (5). Beyond those, NOAA names Barre Mills, Bangor and Saint Joseph on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Holmen | 5 | 2.50″ |
| 1 W West Salem | 3 | 2.50″ |
| 1 WSW West Salem | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Onalaska | 2 | 2.50″ |
| West Salem | 2 | 2.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 22 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). July is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (32%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March, September and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 8 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near New Amsterdam. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-10 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2024-09-21 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2024-07-13 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-28 | 4.00″ | 17 |
| 2023-03-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-19 | 1.75″ | 9 |
| 2022-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-12-15 | 1.25″ | 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 4 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, over the state line included: Vernon County (19 hail days), Trempealeau County (43), Monroe County (25) and Houston County, Minnesota (15). La Crosse County sits in between.
Vernon County · Trempealeau County · Monroe County · Houston County, Minnesota
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, La Crosse County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.