Vermont hail history
284
Days with hail on record, statewide
140
Days at 1.00″ or more
3.30in
Largest on record, Jul 2009
8
Cities with hail on record nearby
Hail by city in Vermont
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.
- 01 South Burlington 60 days 1.75″
- 02 Essex Junction 59 days 3.30″
- 03 Burlington 55 days 1.50″
- 04 Winooski 53 days 2.50″
- 05 Rutland 37 days 1.75″
- 06 St. Albans 36 days 2.00″
- 07 Montpelier 29 days 2.75″
- 08 Barre 27 days 2.00″
Hail days by year in Vermont
Days with hail At 1.00″ or more
The busiest year on record is 2011, with 27 days of hail, 14 of them at 1.00″ or more.
Largest hail recorded in Vermont
Measured Detected, not measured
| Date | Size | Evidence | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2009 | 3.30″ | Ground observation | CHITTENDEN, VT |
| 16 Jul 2009 | 3.30″ | Ground observation | Not stated |
| 01 Jun 2011 | 3.25″ | Ground observation | Not stated |
| 01 Jun 2011 | 3.25″ | Ground observation | BENNINGTON, VT |
| 16 Jul 2009 | 3.00″ | Ground observation | CHITTENDEN, VT |
| 01 Jun 2011 | 3.00″ | Ground observation | BENNINGTON, VT |
| 09 Jul 2007 | 2.75″ | Ground observation | Not stated |
| 09 Jul 2007 | 2.75″ | Ground observation | WASHINGTON, VT |
Hail days by month in Vermont
Hail here is a July matter: 81 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.
Get the hail report for an address in Vermont
The figures on this page are the record across Vermont: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.
Run the address and the same archive is searched at the property: the storm, the date, the measured size, the distance and bearing from the roof, and the federal record each figure came from, in a document that states its own method. Ready in minutes.
How this page is made
- What counted
- Every hail report in the archive filed under Vermont 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.