The most recent reported hail day was 2024-05-18 -- 2 years ago, with nothing reported since. Vilas County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-06-30 near N Eagle River.
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 2024-05-18, around Lac Du Flambeau. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Vilas 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 25 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2022, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Vilas County: all 13 hail days on record topped out below that. 4 of the 13 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 Lac Du Flambeau -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then St Germain (2), Boulder Junction (2) and Eagle River (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Lac Du Flambeau | 3 | 1.75″ |
| St Germain | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Eagle River | 2 | 1.00″ |
| N Eagle River | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Wsw St Germain | 1 | 1.25″ |
The season runs May through August: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (31%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in April and September, 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 | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Lac Du Flambeau. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-05-18 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2023-07-10 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-09-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-30 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2018-06-16 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2017-04-09 | 1.75″ | 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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Oneida County (16 hail days), Price County (22) and Ashland County (15). Every one of them takes more hail than Vilas County.
Oneida County · Price County · Ashland County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Vilas County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.