The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-25 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Pickens County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-06-16 near Forest.
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 2025-05-25, around Ethelsville. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Pickens 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 15 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 29 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 6 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2025, with 2 hail days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 5 days since 2022.
3 of the 15 days reached 2 inches or more -- 20%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2023-06-16. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 5 of the 15 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 Gordo -- 5 of the county's 15 hail days -- then Ethelsville (4), Reform (4), McShan (2) and Aliceville (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Ethelsville | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Gordo | 3 | 2.75″ |
| Aliceville | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 4 ENE McShan | 1 | 2.75″ |
| Forest | 1 | 2.75″ |
The season runs March through June: 14 of the 15 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (93%). March is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (27%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in September, outside that window. Reports span 5 of the 12 calendar months; the other 7 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 4 |
| April | 4 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 4 |
| September | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Ethelsville. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-03-14 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-16 | 2.75″ | 7 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.25″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2021-03-17 | 2.75″ | 1 |
| 2020-04-08 | 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 2.75 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: Lamar County (23 hail days), Fayette County (20), Tuscaloosa County (29) and Lowndes County, Mississippi (34). Every one of them takes more hail than Pickens County.
Lamar County · Fayette County · Tuscaloosa County · Lowndes County, Mississippi
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Pickens County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.