The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-25 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Sumter County is hit in about half the years on record. The largest stone on record here is 2 inches, a hen egg and twice the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2023-03-26 near Cuba.
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 Cuba. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Sumter 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 19 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.1 a year over 17 years of record. They carry 28 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 7 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 4 of the 19 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 6 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 19 days on record passed it, 5%, the last on 2023-03-26. They land in the same month as everything else, March. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 4 of the 19 days.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Livingston -- 5 of the county's 19 hail days -- then Cuba (4), Bluffport (2), Gainesville (2) and York (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Coatopa and Emelle on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Livingston | 3 | 1.50″ |
| Cuba | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 NE York | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 4 S Bluffport | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 5 W Gainesville | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs March through July: 16 of the 19 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (84%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (32%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January and December, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 3 |
| July | 1 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Cuba. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-05-02 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-16 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-03-26 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-01-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-04-09 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2020-05-22 | 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 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: Marengo County (14 hail days), Hale County (13), Pickens County (15), Kemper County, Mississippi (17) and Lauderdale County, Mississippi (29). Sumter County sits in between.
Marengo County · Hale County · Pickens County · Kemper County, Mississippi · Lauderdale County, Mississippi
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Sumter County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.