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The public record 1996 to today

Oregon hail history

The public federal storm record holds 466 days with hail somewhere in Oregon since 1996, 196 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 2,730 reports. The largest on record is 2.50″ on 2 July 1998 in GRANT County. 71 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: Oregon wind history.

466

Days with hail on record, statewide

196

Days at 1.00″ or more

2.50in

Largest on record, Jul 1998

71

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Oregon

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 Bend 49 days
  2. 02 Medford 31 days
  3. 03 Klamath Falls 29 days
  4. 04 La Grande 29 days
  5. 05 Talent 29 days
  6. 06 Prineville 28 days
  7. 07 Central Point 27 days
  8. 08 Redmond 25 days
  9. 09 Eagle Point 24 days
  10. 10 Ashland 18 days
  11. 11 Madras 17 days
  12. 12 Portland 15 days
  13. 13 Grants Pass 14 days
  14. 14 Milwaukie 13 days
  15. 15 Gresham 12 days
  16. 16 Happy Valley 12 days
  17. 17 Troutdale 12 days
  18. 18 Fairview 12 days
  19. 19 Milton-Freewater 12 days
  20. 20 Lake Oswego 11 days
  21. 21 Gladstone 11 days
  22. 22 Oregon City 10 days
  23. 23 Pendleton 10 days
  24. 24 Brookings 10 days
  25. 25 West Linn 9 days
  26. 26 Ontario 9 days
  27. 27 Baker City 9 days
  28. 28 Tualatin 8 days
  29. 29 Hermiston 8 days
  30. 30 Wilsonville 7 days
Every place in Oregon (79)

Hail days by year in Oregon

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2006, with 34 days of hail, 17 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Oregon

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Oregon: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
02 Jul 1998 2.50″ Ground observation GRANT, OR
11 Aug 2022 2.50″ Ground observation Not stated
11 Aug 2022 2.50″ Ground observation WALLOWA, OR
11 Aug 2022 2.50″ Ground observation WALLOWA, OR
26 Jul 2003 2.00″ Ground observation Not stated
26 Jul 2003 2.00″ Ground observation MALHEUR, OR
12 Jun 2006 2.00″ Ground observation DESCHUTES, OR
12 Jun 2006 2.00″ Ground observation DESCHUTES, OR

Hail days by month in Oregon

Hail here is a August matter: 95 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

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The figures on this page are the record across Oregon: 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 Oregon 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.