The most recent reported hail day was 2026-02-26, 155 days ago. Franklin County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 3 inches, a teacup and 3 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-14 near Hodges.
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 Russellville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Franklin 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 24 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.4 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 45 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2025 alone produced 5 of the 24 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 10 days since 2022, against 1.2 a year before that.
4 of the 24 days reached 2 inches or more -- 17%, or about one hail day in 6, the last on 2025-05-02. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 10 of the 24 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 Russellville -- 11 of the county's 24 hail days -- then Red Bay (8), Phil Campbell (4), Hodges (3) and Vina (3). That one town is named on 46% of them.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| 8 WSW Russellville | 2 | 2.00″ |
| Vina | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 1 S Russellville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 N Russellville | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 9 N Red Bay | 2 | 1.25″ |
The season runs February through May: 20 of the 24 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (83%). March is the single busiest month, with 12 of them (50%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in June, July, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 12 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 1 |
| July | 1 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 4 reports on the map, the biggest 1.75 inches near Russellville. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-26 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2025-05-02 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-15 | 2.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-13 | 1.25″ | 3 |
| 2024-04-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-03-14 | 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 3 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: Colbert County (23 hail days), Marion County (27), Lawrence County (25) and Tishomingo County, Mississippi (16). Franklin County sits in between.
Colbert County · Marion County · Lawrence County · Tishomingo County, Mississippi
Back to the Alabama hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Franklin County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.