The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-17, 105 days ago. Oneida 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 2017-05-16 near Pelican Lake.
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 2026-04-17, around Hazelhurst. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Oneida 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 35 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 1 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2017-05-16. They land in the same month as everything else, May. 4 of the 16 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 Rhinelander -- 8 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Sugar Camp (6), Pelican Lake (2), Lake Tomahawk (2) and Tomahawk (2). That one town is named on 50% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Rhinelander | 6 | 1.75″ |
| Sugar Camp | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Pelican Lake | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 8 N Tomahawk | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Lake Tomahawk | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs April through August: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). May is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (38%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in September and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 2 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Hazelhurst. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-17 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-07-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2021-05-31 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-07-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-07-19 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2018-10-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-05-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2017-05-16 | 2.00″ | 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 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: Vilas County (13 hail days), Price County (22) and Marathon County (30). Oneida County sits in between.
Vilas County · Price County · Marathon County
Back to the Wisconsin hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Oneida County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.