The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-17 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Shelby County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 1.75 inches, a golf ball and 1.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-01-12 near Ballantrae.
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 2025-05-17, around Indian Springs Vi. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Shelby 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 51 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 10 of the 27 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 7 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Shelby County: all 27 hail days on record topped out below that. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 3 of the 27 days.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Chelsea -- 8 of the county's 27 hail days -- then Calera (5), Pelham (4), Alabaster (3) and Vincent (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Shelby County Air, Columbiana, Helena, Montevallo, Shelby County Airpo and Shelby County Airport on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Chelsea | 4 | 1.00″ |
| Calera | 3 | 1.00″ |
| Pelham | 3 | 1.00″ |
| 4 Sw Chelsea | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Alabaster | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs February through June: 23 of the 27 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (85%). April is the single busiest month, with 8 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, July and August, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 8 |
| May | 4 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 2 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 2 reports on the map, the biggest 1.25 inches near Indian Springs Vi. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-17 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-08-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-03-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-01-12 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2022-07-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2022-05-01 | 1.00″ | 3 |
| 2020-05-22 | 1.75″ | 3 |
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 1.75 inches, which is the red band. Look up a street address with the hail history by address tool.
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Jefferson County (57 hail days), Chilton County (22) and Talladega County (20). Shelby County sits in between.
Jefferson County · Chilton County · Talladega County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Shelby County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.