The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-13, 109 days ago. Waupaca County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. 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 2021-09-07 near New London.
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 2026-04-13, around Peru. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Waupaca 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. They carry 37 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. Exactly one year since 2010 passed with no reported hail day at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Waupaca County: all 25 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 25 days.
Across the whole of Wisconsin, see the Wisconsin hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Clintonville -- 6 of the county's 25 hail days -- then New London (4), Waupaca (4), King (3) and Iola (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Fremont on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Clintonville | 4 | 1.50″ |
| New London | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Fremont | 2 | 1.00″ |
| King | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 N Readfield | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 21 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). July is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (24%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in March and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 1 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 6 |
| August | 3 |
| September | 3 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Peru. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-13 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2025-06-29 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-30 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-28 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-12 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2021-09-07 | 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: Outagamie County (19 hail days), Waushara County (15) and Shawano County (15). Waupaca County takes more hail than any of them.
Outagamie County · Waushara County · Shawano County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Waupaca County, Wisconsin only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.