The most recent reported hail day was 2025-11-25, 248 days ago. Tallapoosa County is hit in about half the years on record. 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 2011-03-26 near Eagle Creek.
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 2025-11-25, around Reeltown. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Tallapoosa 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 16 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 0.9 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 44 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 9 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2023 alone produced 4 of the 16 days. The last five years have run hotter than the long-run rate: 7 days since 2022, against 0.8 a year before that.
3 of the 16 days reached 2 inches or more -- 19%, or about one hail day in 5, the last on 2023-03-26. They land in the same month as everything else, March. 7 of the 16 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 Alexander City -- 4 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Dadeville (4), Camp Hill (3), Hackneyville (3) and New Site (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Martin Lake at Ko and Reeltown on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Camp Hill | 2 | 2.75″ |
| Hackneyville | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Eagle Creek | 1 | 3.00″ |
| 3 Nne Martin Lake At Ko | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 3 Ssw Reeltown | 1 | 2.00″ |
The season runs March through August: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 6 months (88%). March is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (38%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in January and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 1 |
| March | 6 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 2 |
| August | 2 |
| November | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Reeltown. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-11-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-08-18 | 1.75″ | 7 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2023-08-09 | 1.50″ | 3 |
| 2023-03-26 | 2.00″ | 3 |
| 2023-03-25 | 2.75″ | 11 |
| 2023-01-12 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2021-04-24 | 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: Coosa County (16 hail days), Elmore County (20) and Lee County (20). Tallapoosa County sits in between.
Coosa County · Elmore County · Lee County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Tallapoosa County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.