The most recent reported hail day was 2023-05-31 -- 3 years ago, with nothing reported since. Outagamie County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4.5 inches, a softball and 4.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-09-07 near Appleton.
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 2023-05-31, around Little Chute. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Outagamie 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 88 separate reports between them, better than three on a typical one. 6 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: 2 days since 2022, against 1.4 a year before that.
3 of the 19 days reached 2 inches or more -- 16%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2021-09-07. They land in the same month as everything else, June. 8 of the 19 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 Appleton -- 8 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Greenville (6), Stephensville (4), Kimberly (3) and Hortonville (3). That one town is named on 42% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Shiocton, Black Creek, Mackville, Kaukauna, New London, Dale and Little Chute on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Appleton | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Greenville | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Hortonville | 3 | 1.25″ |
| 4 Nne Appleton | 2 | 3.00″ |
| Stephensville | 2 | 2.50″ |
The season runs May through September: 18 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (95%). June is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (21%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April, 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 | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 4 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Little Chute. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-31 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-12 | 1.75″ | 9 |
| 2021-09-07 | 4.50″ | 29 |
| 2019-08-07 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-06-05 | 2.50″ | 5 |
| 2017-09-20 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2017-08-30 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2017-08-10 | 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 4.5 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: Winnebago County (17 hail days), Brown County (16) and Waupaca County (25). Outagamie County sits in between.
Winnebago County · Brown County · Waupaca County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Outagamie County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.