The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-02 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. DeKalb County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-06-15 near Ider.
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 Mentone. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls DeKalb 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. They carry 53 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2011, with 6 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 5 days since 2022, against 2.3 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 33 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2011-06-15. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 8 of the 33 days.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Ider -- 7 of the county's 33 hail days -- then Fort Payne (6), Sylvania (4), Mentone (4) and Valley Head (4). Beyond those, NOAA names Geraldine, Rainsville, Skirum and Crossville on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ider | 4 | 1.75″ |
| Geraldine | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Sylvania | 3 | 2.00″ |
| Mentone | 3 | 1.50″ |
| 5 NE Ider | 2 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 28 of the 33 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (24%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, September, October and December, outside that window. January, August and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 8 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 5 |
| July | 4 |
| September | 1 |
| October | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Mentone. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-10 | 1.50″ | 2 |
| 2024-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-20 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-03-14 | 1.00″ | 2 |
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 2.75 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: Jackson County (24 hail days), Cherokee County (16), Marshall County (24) and Dade County, Georgia (13). DeKalb County takes more hail than any of them.
Jackson County · Cherokee County · Marshall County · Dade County, Georgia
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, DeKalb County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.