The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-10 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Dallas County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2.5 inches, a tennis ball and 2.5 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2022-04-04 near Safford.
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 2025-05-10, around Burnsville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Dallas 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. They carry 17 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 3 of the 13 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 13 days on record passed it, 8%, the last on 2022-04-04. They land in the same month as everything else, April. 5 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 Valley Grande -- 4 of the county's 13 hail days -- then Selma (3), Safford (2) and Burnsville (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Valley Grande | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Burnsville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Selma | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 1 Sw Safford | 1 | 2.50″ |
| 2 Nne Belknap | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through June: 11 of the 13 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 5 of them (38%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February and March, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 1 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Burnsville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-10 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2022-04-15 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2022-04-04 | 2.50″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-06-08 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2013-05-17 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2012-05-06 | 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 2.5 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: Chilton County (22 hail days), Hale County (13) and Marengo County (14). Dallas County sits in between.
Chilton County · Hale County · Marengo County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Dallas County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.