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The public record 1996 to today

Delaware hail history

The public federal storm record holds 151 days with hail somewhere in Delaware since 1996, 49 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 547 reports. The largest on record is 2.50″ on 22 May 2014. 11 cities have hail on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched and which storm days more than one source carried. The wind family has its own index: Delaware wind history.

151

Days with hail on record, statewide

49

Days at 1.00″ or more

2.50in

Largest on record, May 2014

11

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Delaware

Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Elsmere 81 days
  2. 02 New Castle 68 days
  3. 03 Wilmington 66 days
  4. 04 Newark 66 days
  5. 05 Middletown 26 days
  6. 06 Smyrna 26 days
  7. 07 Millsboro 20 days
  8. 08 Dover 18 days
  9. 09 Seaford 13 days
  10. 10 Milford 12 days
  11. 11 Georgetown 12 days

Hail days by year in Delaware

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2009, with 12 days of hail, 5 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Delaware

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Delaware: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
22 May 2014 2.50″ Ground observation Not stated
22 May 2014 2.50″ Ground observation NEW CASTLE, DE
16 May 2022 2.25″ Ground observation Not stated
16 May 2022 2.25″ Ground observation SUSSEX, DE
16 May 2022 2.25″ Ground observation SUSSEX, DE
16 May 2022 2.00″ Ground observation SUSSEX, DE
16 May 2022 2.00″ Ground observation Not stated
16 May 2022 2.00″ Ground observation SUSSEX, DE

Hail days by month in Delaware

Hail here is a June matter: 40 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

Before you run an address

The finder lists every day with hail on record within 10 miles of an address in the last 2 years, ranked by how many independent sources carried it, so the day a file names is a day the record holds.

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Get the hail report for an address in Delaware

The figures on this page are the record across Delaware: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed under Delaware by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 25 August 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. 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

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and spotters cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.