Baldwin County was hit as recently as 2026-05-07, 85 days ago. Baldwin County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2021-04-09 near Orange Beach.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Alabama. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2026-05-07, around Fairhope. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Baldwin County addresses inside a hail swath above your size threshold into a door-knock list you can export, scoped to your approved markets.
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See call-center options ->NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 25 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.5 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 49 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 4 hail days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 12 days since 2022, against 1.1 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 25 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2026-05-07. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not May. 8 of the 25 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Foley -- 7 of the county's 25 hail days -- then Loxley (4), Summerdale (3), Elberta (3) and Fairhope (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Lillian, Daphne and Crossroads on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Foley | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Elberta | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Fairhope | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Summerdale | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Daphne | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through July: 20 of the 25 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (80%). May is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (20%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 3 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 5 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 3 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 3 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Fairhope. 2 hail days have already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2026-01-03 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2025-11-09 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-23 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-04-10 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2024-03-08 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-07-22 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-22 | 1.25″ | 1 |
The colored swath is NOAA's MRMS radar estimate of the largest hail per ~1 km cell; the dots are SPC ground reports. Yellow is about an inch, red 1.5 to 2″, purple 2″ and up (hail size vs roof damage). On this county's worst day the reports reached 4 inches, which is the purple band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own, over the state line included: Mobile County (30 hail days), Escambia County (15), Washington County (15), Escambia County, Florida (21) and Santa Rosa County, Florida (17). Baldwin County sits in between.
Mobile County · Escambia County · Washington County · Escambia County, Florida · Santa Rosa County, Florida
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Baldwin County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.