100
Recorded events
0
Direct deaths
0
Direct injuries
$130.8M
Property damage
Hail in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: 100 recorded events between 1968 and 2024. The strongest on record measured 4.5. That places the county #1,437 nationally and #14 statewide for this hazard.
Decade by decade
Hail in Kalamazoo County, Michigan: events per decade
Reporting practice changed over time — early decades are undercounted, not calmer.
The busiest decade for hail in Kalamazoo County is the 2000s, when 38 of the county's 100 recorded events were logged. Comparing decades is useful for spotting active periods, but the earliest years are thin because systematic reporting for this hazard began later.
Within the Kalamazoo County archive, hail makes up 27.2% of all recorded severe weather across 7 hazard types. Nationally the county sits at #1,437 for this hazard and #14 within Michigan, putting it in the 53.8 percentile of all U.S. counties.
Seasonality
Events by month
May is the peak month for hail in Kalamazoo County with 23 recorded events, while Jan is the quietest. Seasonality here is a property of the archive as much as the climate: reports cluster where population and spotter networks are densest.
Most recent
Latest recorded events
| Date | Location | Magnitude | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2024 | CLIMAX | 1 | $0 |
| May 7, 2024 | OAKWOOD | 2 | $500K |
| Feb 28, 2024 | CLIMAX | 1 | $0 |
| Feb 28, 2024 | MILWOOD | 0.75 | $0 |
| Feb 28, 2024 | TEXAS CORNERS | 1 | $0 |
| Feb 28, 2024 | MILWOOD | 0.75 | $0 |
| Jul 20, 2023 | VICKSBURG | 1 | $0 |
| Apr 1, 2023 | ALAMO | 1 | $0 |
| Aug 15, 2020 | MILWOOD | 1 | $0 |
| Apr 8, 2020 | HOWLANDSBURG | 2 | $500K |
Other hazards here
More from Kalamazoo County
From the record
What the reports say
Written by National Weather Service staff at the time of the event · public domain
Severe thunderstorm winds in excess of 80 mph and hail up to golf ball size impacted far southwestern and south central Kalamazoo county as a bow echo moved into Schoolcraft east to Vicksburg. ||The most significant damage occurred across west southwest portions of the town of Schoolcraft, where the siding of the western sides of many homes was shredded by the wind driven large hail. About a dozen irrigation pivots were destroyed and several trees were blown down. ||A local RV dealership had several of it's vehicles rolled over and damaged. Power lines were blown down and a semi truck was tipped over 1 mile south of downtown Schoolcraft. A wind gust to 79 mph was measured one mile northeast of Vicksburg by a co-op observer with a home weather station a minute before midnight.
Trained spotters reported that large hail fell from a thunderstorm that tracked from just southwest of Oshtemo east northeast across northern Kalamazoo to Richland. The hail size reached 1.25 inches in diameter two miles west of Richland. The hail swath was up to one mile wide based on the correlation of spotter reports with WSR-88D radar products.
Quick answers
Frequently asked
How many hail events are on record in Kalamazoo County, Michigan?
100 hail events are recorded in Kalamazoo County between 1968 and 2024, causing 0 direct deaths.
What is the strongest hail recorded in Kalamazoo County?
The strongest hail on record in Kalamazoo County measured 4.5.
Where does the hail data for Kalamazoo County come from?
All events come from the NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database, the federal public-domain archive of severe weather reports. Dates are UTC, damage is as reported and not inflation-adjusted, and the most recent entries may still be revised.
Cite this page
“Hail in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.” Severe Weather History. severeweatherhistory.com/county/michigan/kalamazoo-county/hail/ · Data: NOAA/NCEI, FEMA, U.S. Census — public domain.