The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-10 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Etowah County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2018-03-19 near Southside.
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 2025-04-10, around Goodyear-Gadsden. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Etowah 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 23 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 55 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 5 of the 23 days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 1.7 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 23 days on record passed it, 9%, the last on 2018-03-19. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 7 of the 23 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 Gadsden -- 8 of the county's 23 hail days -- then Rainbow City (3), Attalla (3), Hokes Bluff (3) and Southside (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Reaves, Walnut Grove, Gadsden Mall, Glencoe, Altoona, Anderson, Aurora and Howelton on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Gadsden | 6 | 1.00″ |
| 1 SW Hokes Bluff | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Attalla | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Rainbow City | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Glencoe | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs March through June: 21 of the 23 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (91%). March is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (39%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February and September, outside that window. Reports span 6 of the 12 calendar months; the other 6 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 9 |
| April | 6 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 5 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 6 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Goodyear-Gadsden. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-10 | 1.75″ | 6 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-07 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2021-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-03-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-12 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-19 | 2.00″ | 6 |
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 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: Calhoun County (27 hail days), Cherokee County (16) and Marshall County (24). Etowah County sits in between.
Calhoun County · Cherokee County · Marshall County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Etowah County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.