Covington County was hit as recently as 2026-05-07, 85 days ago. Covington County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2018-07-22 near Sanford.
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 Florala. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Covington 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 13 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 29 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 13 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 5 days since 2022, against 0.7 a year before that.
2 of the 13 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2023-03-25. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. 6 of the 13 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 Andalusia -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Carolina (4), Opp (3), Heath (2) and Babbie (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Andalusia | 4 | 2.50″ |
| Carolina | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Heath | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Babbie | 2 | 2.50″ |
| 2 Nnw Sanford | 1 | 4.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (38%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 2 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 2 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Florala. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-09 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-15 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-25 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-07-22 | 4.00″ | 8 |
| 2013-06-28 | 1.00″ | 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 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: Escambia County (15 hail days), Dale County (13), Montgomery County (15), Walton County, Florida (15) and Santa Rosa County, Florida (17). Covington County sits in between.
Escambia County · Dale County · Montgomery County · Walton County, Florida · Santa Rosa County, Florida
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Covington County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.