The most recent reported hail day was 2025-03-31 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Lee 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 2013-03-18 near Opelika.
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 2025-03-31, around Salem. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Lee 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. Those days carry 37 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2023, with 3 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 20 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2013-03-18. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in March, not June. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 20 days.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Opelika -- 5 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Beauregard (4), Auburn (3), Loachapoka (3) and Smiths Station (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Salem, EW Shell Fisherie and EW Shell Fisheries on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Auburn | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Smiths Station | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Beauregard | 2 | 1.50″ |
| 1 W Loachapoka | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 2 SW EW Shell Fisheries | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through August: 17 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (85%). June is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (20%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, February and December, outside that window. September, October and November are the only months that have never produced a reported hail day.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 3 |
| August | 2 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1.5 inches near Salem. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-31 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-11 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-05-18 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-03 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-06-15 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-12-30 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2021-04-24 | 1.25″ | 4 |
| 2020-07-15 | 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: Russell County (13 hail days), Tallapoosa County (16), Elmore County (20) and Troup County, Georgia (19). Lee County sits in between.
Russell County · Tallapoosa County · Elmore County · Troup County, Georgia
Back to the Alabama hail map or the U.S. hail map.
Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Lee County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.