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The public record 1996 to today

Massachusetts hail history

The public federal storm record holds 326 days with hail somewhere in Massachusetts since 1996, 191 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 3,636 reports. The largest on record is 4.00″ on 1 June 2011 in BERKSHIRE County. 54 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: Massachusetts wind history.

326

Days with hail on record, statewide

191

Days at 1.00″ or more

4.00in

Largest on record, Jun 2011

54

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Massachusetts

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 Holyoke 83 days
  2. 02 Chicopee 77 days
  3. 03 Westfield 76 days
  4. 04 West Springfield Town 74 days
  5. 05 Springfield 72 days
  6. 06 Agawam Town 70 days
  7. 07 Amherst Town 50 days
  8. 08 Northampton 45 days
  9. 09 Worcester 44 days
  10. 10 Lawrence 42 days
  11. 11 Pittsfield 40 days
  12. 12 Melrose 40 days
  13. 13 Somerville 39 days
  14. 14 Everett 39 days
  15. 15 Franklin Town 39 days
  16. 16 Cambridge 38 days
  17. 17 Fitchburg 38 days
  18. 18 Haverhill 37 days
  19. 19 Peabody 37 days
  20. 20 Palmer Town 37 days
  21. 21 Boston 36 days
  22. 22 Malden 36 days
  23. 23 Lynn 35 days
  24. 24 Newton 35 days
  25. 25 Medford 35 days
  26. 26 Marlborough 35 days
  27. 27 Randolph Town 34 days
  28. 28 Lowell 33 days
  29. 29 Framingham 33 days
  30. 30 Chelsea 33 days
Every place in Massachusetts (54)

Hail days by year in Massachusetts

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2008, with 29 days of hail, 15 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Massachusetts

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Massachusetts: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
01 Jun 2011 4.00″ Ground observation BERKSHIRE, MA
01 Jun 2011 4.00″ Ground observation Not stated
03 Jul 1997 3.00″ Ground observation BERKSHIRE, MA
11 Jul 2006 3.00″ Ground observation Not stated
11 Jul 2006 3.00″ Ground observation ESSEX, MA
11 Jul 2006 3.00″ Ground observation ESSEX, MA
11 Jul 2006 3.00″ Ground observation ESSEX, MA
26 Jul 2011 3.00″ Ground observation HAMPDEN, MA

Hail days by month in Massachusetts

Hail here is a July matter: 101 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Massachusetts

The figures on this page are the record across Massachusetts: 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 Massachusetts 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 28 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 observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. 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.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

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.