The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-02 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Calhoun County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-04-05 near Ohatchee.
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 2025-05-02, around Alexandria. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Calhoun 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 63 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 3 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 6 of the 27 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 1.8 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 27 days on record passed it, 4%, the last on 2017-04-05. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 27 days.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Jacksonville -- 6 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Ohatchee (5), Oxford (5), Piedmont (5) and Anniston (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Alexandria, Choccolocco, Cobb Town, Weaver, Liberty Hill, Jacksonville Stat and Wellington on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Oxford | 5 | 1.75″ |
| Ohatchee | 4 | 1.50″ |
| Jacksonville | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Piedmont | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Alexandria | 3 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January, July, August and September, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 6 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Alexandria. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-02 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-24 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-08-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-19 | 1.50″ | 7 |
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 3 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: Etowah County (23 hail days), Cherokee County (16) and Talladega County (20). Calhoun County takes more hail than any of them.
Etowah County · Cherokee County · Talladega County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Calhoun County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.