The most recent reported hail day was 2026-04-28, 94 days ago. Marion County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 4 inches, a grapefruit and 4 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2011-04-27 near Hamilton.
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 2026-04-28, around Pea Ridge. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Marion 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 27 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.6 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 53 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 27 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2011-04-27. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 11 of the 27 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 Hamilton -- 5 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Hackleburg (5), Shottsville (4), Winfield (4) and Bear Creek (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Bexar, Haleyville, Shotsville, Guin and Twin on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Hackleburg | 3 | 1.75″ |
| Hamilton | 2 | 4.00″ |
| Bear Creek | 2 | 2.50″ |
| Shottsville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Twin | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs March through May: 22 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 3 months (81%). March is the single busiest month, with 13 of them (48%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in June and October, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 13 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 3 |
| October | 2 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Pea Ridge. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-28 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2025-05-08 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-04-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-23 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2022-10-12 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2022-06-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-06 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-19 | 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 4 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: Franklin County (24 hail days), Winston County (19) and Lamar County (23). Marion County takes more hail than any of them.
Franklin County · Winston County · Lamar County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Marion County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.