The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-16 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Chilton 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 2013-03-18 near Clanton.
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 2025-05-16, around I-65 Rest Area. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Chilton 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 22 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.3 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 39 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2017, with 3 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 4 days since 2022, against 1.5 a year before that.
3 of the 22 days reached 2 inches or more -- 14%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2023-03-25. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 22 days.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Clanton -- 9 of the county's 22 hail days -- then Jemison (4) and Maplesville (2). That one town is named on 41% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Clanton | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Ne Clanton | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Jemison | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 2 Se Clanton | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 5 Se Clanton | 1 | 3.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 18 of the 22 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (82%). March is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (41%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January, July and October, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 2 |
| October | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near I-65 Rest Area. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-13 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-25 | 2.75″ | 5 |
| 2022-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2019-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2017-04-05 | 2.00″ | 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 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: Shelby County (27 hail days), Coosa County (16) and Elmore County (20). Chilton County sits in between.
Shelby County · Coosa County · Elmore County
Back to the Alabama hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Chilton County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.