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The public record 1996 to today

New York hail history

The public federal storm record holds 846 days with hail somewhere in New York since 1996, 533 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 13,150 reports. The largest on record is 4.00″ on 27 September 1998 in NIAGARA County. 167 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: New York wind history.

846

Days with hail on record, statewide

533

Days at 1.00″ or more

4.00in

Largest on record, Sep 1998

167

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in New York

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 Johnson City 92 days
  2. 02 Binghamton 91 days
  3. 03 Endicott 77 days
  4. 04 Colonie 76 days
  5. 05 Albany 70 days
  6. 06 Watervliet 68 days
  7. 07 Rensselaer 68 days
  8. 08 Cohoes 67 days
  9. 09 Mechanicville 65 days
  10. 10 Utica 61 days
  11. 11 Troy 59 days
  12. 12 North Syracuse 56 days
  13. 13 Solvay 56 days
  14. 14 Rome 55 days
  15. 15 Syracuse 54 days
  16. 16 Saratoga Springs 53 days
  17. 17 Schenectady 51 days
  18. 18 Hastings-on-Hudson 51 days
  19. 19 Scotia 48 days
  20. 20 Dobbs Ferry 47 days
  21. 21 Yonkers 46 days
  22. 22 Plattsburgh 46 days
  23. 23 Briarcliff Manor 46 days
  24. 24 Mount Vernon 45 days
  25. 25 Ithaca 45 days
  26. 26 Tarrytown 44 days
  27. 27 Chestnut Ridge 44 days
  28. 28 Airmont 44 days
  29. 29 Irvington 44 days
  30. 30 Ossining 43 days
Every place in New York (167)

Hail days by year in New York

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2008, with 52 days of hail, 34 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in New York

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in New York: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
27 Sep 1998 4.00″ Ground observation NIAGARA, NY
22 May 2014 4.00″ Ground observation MONTGOMERY, NY
22 May 2014 4.00″ Ground observation Not stated
22 May 2014 4.00″ Ground observation MONTGOMERY, NY
29 May 2012 3.50″ Ground observation WARREN, NY
29 May 2012 3.50″ Ground observation WARREN, NY
29 May 2012 3.50″ Ground observation Not stated
23 May 2004 3.00″ Ground observation ONONDAGA, NY

Hail days by month in New York

Hail here is a July matter: 200 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in New York

The figures on this page are the record across New York: 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 New York 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 2 November 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.