Walworth County, Wisconsin Hail Map & History
Walworth County was hit as recently as 2026-08-09, 36 days ago. Walworth County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-05-02 near Williams Bay.
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 2026-08-09, around Pell Lake. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Walworth 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 28 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 64 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2026, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 8 days since 2022.
3 of the 28 days reached 2 inches or more -- 11%, or about one hail day in 9, the last on 2026-04-02. 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.
Hardest-hit places in Walworth County
Reports cluster nearest Lake Geneva -- 7 of the county's 28 hail days -- then Elkhorn (7), Whitewater (4), Pell Lake (4) and Delavan (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Williams Bay, East Troy, Genoa City, Fontana-on-Geneva and Palmyra on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Elkhorn | 5 | 1.00″ |
| Delavan | 3 | 1.50″ |
| East Troy | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Genoa City | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Williams Bay | 2 | 1.50″ |
When it hails in Walworth County
The season runs April through August: 26 of the 28 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (93%). April is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (21%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| April | 6 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 5 |
| August | 4 |
| September | 2 |
Recent Walworth County hail days
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Pell Lake. 5 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-09 | 1.50″ | 4 |
| 2026-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2026-04-02 | 2.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-15 | 2.00″ | 6 |
| 2023-04-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-07-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
How to read the Walworth County map
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 2.5 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Racine County (17 hail days), Waukesha County (35), Rock County (32) and McHenry County, Illinois (35). Walworth County sits in between.
Racine County · Waukesha County · Rock County · McHenry County, Illinois
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Walworth County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.