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The public record 1996 to today

Washington hail history

The public federal storm record holds 395 days with hail somewhere in Washington since 1996, 107 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 1,543 reports. The largest on record is 3.00″ on 17 June 1997 in PEND OREILLE County. 121 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: Washington wind history.

395

Days with hail on record, statewide

107

Days at 1.00″ or more

3.00in

Largest on record, Jun 1997

121

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Washington

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 Lynnwood 39 days
  2. 02 Mill Creek 38 days
  3. 03 Bothell 35 days
  4. 04 Mountlake Terrace 35 days
  5. 05 Brier 35 days
  6. 06 Kenmore 34 days
  7. 07 Kirkland 33 days
  8. 08 Lake Forest Park 33 days
  9. 09 Woodinville 32 days
  10. 10 Edmonds 31 days
  11. 11 Fife 30 days
  12. 12 Shoreline 29 days
  13. 13 Puyallup 29 days
  14. 14 Snohomish 29 days
  15. 15 Redmond 27 days
  16. 16 Mukilteo 26 days
  17. 17 Everett 25 days
  18. 18 Snoqualmie 25 days
  19. 19 Lake Stevens 24 days
  20. 20 University Place 24 days
  21. 21 Fircrest 24 days
  22. 22 Pacific 24 days
  23. 23 Airway Heights 23 days
  24. 24 Spokane 22 days
  25. 25 Spokane Valley 22 days
  26. 26 Renton 22 days
  27. 27 Federal Way 22 days
  28. 28 Covington 22 days
  29. 29 North Bend 22 days
  30. 30 Lakewood 21 days
Every place in Washington (122)

Hail days by year in Washington

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2008, with 32 days of hail, 6 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Washington

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Washington: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
17 Jun 1997 3.00″ Ground observation PEND OREILLE, WA
11 Aug 2022 2.75″ Ground observation SPOKANE, WA
11 Aug 2022 2.75″ Ground observation Not stated
11 Aug 2022 2.75″ Ground observation SPOKANE, WA
20 Jul 2012 2.50″ Ground observation YAKIMA, WA
31 May 1997 2.00″ Ground observation SPOKANE, WA
31 May 1997 2.00″ Ground observation GARFIELD, WA
10 Jun 2003 2.00″ Ground observation Not stated

Hail days by month in Washington

Hail here is a June matter: 63 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Washington

The figures on this page are the record across Washington: 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 Washington 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 1 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.