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Edition 2026-03

Hail days by metro, March 2026.

In March 2026, 50 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 86 in March 2025. Joliet, IL led with 4 days, against its own March mean of 0.4 over 30 prior years of record. On 100 percent of metro hail days at least one report was measured by a person or an instrument; the rest were detected by radar alone. Nationally the month had 19 days with hail on record, against 25 a year earlier.

50

Of 333 metros with a hail day

19

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

6.60in

Largest measured, 10 Mar, IL

Hail days by metro, March 2026

Against each metro's own March on record

Hail days by metro, March 2026: each metro's hail days in the window, its year to date, its own mean for the span over the record, the share of its days carried by a measured report, and its largest measured and largest detected hail.
Rank Metro Days Year to date March mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Joliet, IL 4 +3.6 4 0.4 100% 4 of 4 days measured 1.75″ None detected
02 Oklahoma City, OK 3 +2.3 5 0.7 100% 3 of 3 days measured 2.75″ None detected
03 Aurora, IL 3 +2.7 3 0.3 100% 3 of 3 days measured 2.50″ None detected
04 Naperville, IL 3 +2.5 3 0.5 100% 3 of 3 days measured 4.80″ None detected
05 Green Bay, WI 3 +2.9 3 0.1 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.75″ None detected
06 Davenport, IA 3 +2.5 3 0.5 100% 3 of 3 days measured 1.00″ None detected
07 Chicago, IL 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
08 Houston, TX 2 +1.5 3 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.75″ None detected
09 Indianapolis, IN 2 +1.5 3 0.5 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.50″ None detected
10 Cedar Rapids, IA 2 +1.4 2 0.6 100% 2 of 2 days measured 2.00″ None detected
11 Sterling Heights, MI 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
12 Springfield, IL 2 +1.6 3 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
13 San Antonio, TX 1 +0.0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected
14 Jacksonville, FL 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
15 Columbus, OH 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
16 Kansas City, MO 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 4.00″ None detected
17 Omaha, NE 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
18 Miami, FL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected
19 Tulsa, OK 1 +0.3 1 0.7 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
20 Tampa, FL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
21 Arlington, TX 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
22 Wichita, KS 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
23 Fort Wayne, IN 1 +0.5 2 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
24 Toledo, OH 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
25 Huntsville, AL 1 +0.4 2 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
26 Hialeah, FL 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.70″ None detected
27 Des Moines, IA 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
28 Amarillo, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
29 Tallahassee, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
30 Grand Prairie, TX 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
31 Overland Park, KS 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
32 Grand Rapids, MI 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.00″ None detected
33 Akron, OH 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
34 Shreveport, LA 1 −0.0 1 1.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
35 Springfield, MO 1 +0.4 1 0.6 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
36 Charleston, SC 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
37 Kansas City, KS 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 4.50″ None detected
38 Olathe, KS 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
39 Palm Bay, FL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
40 Abilene, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
41 North Charleston, SC 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
42 Independence, MO 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
43 Ann Arbor, MI 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
44 Broken Arrow, OK 1 +0.2 1 0.8 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
45 Elgin, IL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.25″ None detected
46 Lansing, MI 1 +0.8 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
47 Peoria, IL 1 +0.7 2 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
48 Lee's Summit, MO 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.50″ None detected
49 Palm Coast, FL 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
50 Fayetteville, AR 1 +0.5 1 0.5 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with March 2025 beside it. The first 15 of 26; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Illinois 10 days
    • 10 measured
    • 6.60″
    • 4 in March 2025
  2. 02 Texas 9 days
    • 9 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 14 in March 2025
  3. 03 Indiana 8 days
    • 8 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 4 in March 2025
  4. 04 Oklahoma 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 5 in March 2025
  5. 05 Iowa 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 4 in March 2025
  6. 06 Missouri 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 7 in March 2025
  7. 07 Kansas 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 3.00″
    • 4 in March 2025
  8. 08 Michigan 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 3 in March 2025
  9. 09 Florida 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in March 2025
  10. 10 Ohio 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 2 in March 2025
  11. 11 Wisconsin 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in March 2025
  12. 12 Pennsylvania 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 2 in March 2025
  13. 13 Mississippi 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in March 2025
  14. 14 West Virginia 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.50″
    • 2 in March 2025
  15. 15 North Carolina 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 0.88″
    • 3 in March 2025

The busiest day of the month

Tuesday 10 March 2026

Hail reports
920
Sources
×4
Measured
6.60″
States
9

Against March 2025

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the March 2025 edition has the full table. Arlington, TX led then with 4 days.

50 −36

Metros with a hail day

March 2025 86

19 −6

Days with hail on record nationally

March 2025 25

19 −6

Days with a measured hail report

March 2025 25

2,883 −1,023

Hail reports, all sources

March 2025 3,906

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, March 2026. Compiled 27 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2026/03

Compiled 27 August 2026 from the public federal storm record. The slowest national source is still revising this span and is expected to stop by 22 September 2027; the figures are the record as it stands, and the settled figures will be at this address. The file carries every metro in the series, the ones with nothing this month included, with the same provenance line inside it.

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How this series is made

A metro
A metro, as this series uses the word, is a place the Census Bureau lists with a population of 100,000 or more, not a metropolitan statistical area. Smaller places have a hail-history page of their own; they are not in this table.
A hail day
A calendar date with at least one hail report in the archive within 10 miles of the metro's Census centre, from any source. Four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
The mean
The metro's own hail days over the same span of the calendar, March, in each of the 30 prior years the record reaches, from 1996, divided by those years. A span is compared with itself, never with the country.
The measured share
Of a metro's hail days, the share on which at least one report came from a person or an instrument rather than from radar alone. A detection is a detection and is marked as one here and in every document we issue; the two are never added together.
Overlap
Two metros within 20 miles of each other share reports, so their counts are not exclusive and the national figures are distinct dates, not a sum of the table. The table ranks the record around each centre; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 27 August 2026 and rebuilt as the federal sources revise it. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

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