The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-26, 155 days ago. Fayette 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 2024-05-09 near Belk.
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 Fayette. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Fayette 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 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 28 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2019, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
2 of the 20 days reached 2 inches or more -- 10%, or about one hail day in 10, the last on 2024-05-09. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in May, not March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Fayette -- 4 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Hubbertville (3), Belk (2), Berry (2) and Ashcraft Corner (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Fowlers Crossroad, Fowlers Crossroads and Wnw Fowlers Crossroads on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fayette | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Sse Hubbertville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Wnw Fowlers Crossroads | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 5 NNE Berry | 1 | 2.00″ |
| Belk | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through June: 17 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (85%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (30%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in February, July and September, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Fayette. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-07 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-07-02 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-29 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2019-04-07 | 1.50″ | 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 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: Lamar County (23 hail days), Walker County (30) and Marion County (27). Every one of them takes more hail than Fayette County.
Lamar County · Walker County · Marion County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Fayette County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.