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The public record 1996 to today

Michigan hail history

The public federal storm record holds 1,287 days with hail somewhere in Michigan since 1996, 654 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 16,178 reports. The largest on record is 4.50″ on 2 August 2015. 153 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: Michigan wind history.

1,287

Days with hail on record, statewide

654

Days at 1.00″ or more

4.50in

Largest on record, Aug 2015

153

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Michigan

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 Wyoming 153 days
  2. 02 Grand Rapids 151 days
  3. 03 Grandville 149 days
  4. 04 East Grand Rapids 148 days
  5. 05 Kentwood 143 days
  6. 06 Walker 133 days
  7. 07 Hudsonville 117 days
  8. 08 Portage 105 days
  9. 09 Kalamazoo 94 days
  10. 10 Zeeland 86 days
  11. 11 Lansing 84 days
  12. 12 Sterling Heights 83 days
  13. 13 Muskegon Heights 81 days
  14. 14 Hazel Park 78 days
  15. 15 Utica 78 days
  16. 16 Ann Arbor 77 days
  17. 17 Ypsilanti 77 days
  18. 18 Ferndale 77 days
  19. 19 Battle Creek 76 days
  20. 20 Norton Shores 76 days
  21. 21 Springfield 75 days
  22. 22 Holland 74 days
  23. 23 East Lansing 73 days
  24. 24 Mount Clemens 73 days
  25. 25 Saline 73 days
  26. 26 Warren 69 days
  27. 27 Royal Oak 69 days
  28. 28 Huntington Woods 69 days
  29. 29 Marquette 68 days
  30. 30 Fraser 68 days
Every place in Michigan (153)

Hail days by year in Michigan

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2012, with 68 days of hail, 26 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Michigan

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Michigan: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
02 Aug 2015 4.50″ Ground observation Not stated
02 Aug 2015 4.50″ Ground observation OGEMAW, MI
09 Jun 2004 4.25″ Ground observation JACKSON, MI
09 Jun 2004 4.25″ Ground observation Not stated
02 Aug 2015 4.25″ Ground observation OGEMAW, MI
02 Aug 2015 4.25″ Ground observation OGEMAW, MI
28 Jul 2006 4.00″ Ground observation GOGEBIC, MI
28 Jul 2006 4.00″ Ground observation Not stated

Hail days by month in Michigan

Hail here is a June matter: 255 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Michigan

The figures on this page are the record across Michigan: 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 Michigan 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 27 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.