The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-26, 155 days ago. Cullman County has recorded hail in nearly every year on the archive. The largest stone on record here is 5 inches and 5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-03-19 near Cullman.
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 2026-02-26, around South Vinemont. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Cullman 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 33 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 66 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 2 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 6 days since 2022, against 2.2 a year before that.
5 of the 33 days reached 2 inches or more -- 15%, or about one hail day in 7, the last on 2026-02-26. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 14 of the 33 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 Cullman -- 8 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Holly Pond (6), West Point (6), South Vinemont (5) and Good Hope (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Fairview, Baileyton, Colony, Crane Hill and Hanceville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Cullman | 5 | 2.50″ |
| Holly Pond | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 3 NE Baileyton | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Good Hope | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 Sw Cullman | 1 | 5.00″ |
The season runs February through July: 27 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (82%). March is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (27%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in August, October and November, outside that window. January, September and December are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 3 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 7 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 1 |
| October | 4 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near South Vinemont. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2025-04-10 | 2.00″ | 4 |
| 2024-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-02-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-27 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-10-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.25″ | 4 |
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 5 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: Blount County (27 hail days), Morgan County (28) and Marshall County (24). Cullman County takes more hail than any of them.
Blount County · Morgan County · Marshall County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Cullman County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.