Winston County, Alabama Hail Map & History
Winston County was hit as recently as 2026-07-01, 75 days ago. Winston County is hit in most years. 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 2018-03-19 near Helicon.
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 2026-07-01, around Posey Field Airport. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Winston 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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NOAA's Storm Prediction Center has logged 20 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.2 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 41 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 4 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2012 alone produced 4 of the 20 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
No stone of 2 inches or more has ever been reported in Winston County: all 20 hail days on record topped out below that. 5 of the 20 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Alabama, see the Alabama hail map and history.
Hardest-hit places in Winston County
Reports cluster nearest Haleyville -- 8 of the county's 20 hail days -- then Helicon (3), Ashridge (3), Double Springs (3) and Needmore (2). That one town is named on 40% of them. Beyond those, NOAA names Addison, Arley, Lynn and Poplar Springs on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Haleyville | 4 | 1.75″ |
| 2 Sse Haleyville | 2 | 1.50″ |
| Double Springs | 2 | 1.25″ |
| Addison | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Ashridge | 2 | 1.00″ |
When it hails in Winston County
The season runs March through June: 16 of the 20 hail days on record fall in those 4 months (80%). March is the single busiest month, with 7 of them (35%). That peak opens the window: the season starts at its worst and eases off from there. Hail has also been reported in July, October and November, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| March | 7 |
| April | 2 |
| May | 3 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 2 |
| October | 1 |
| November | 1 |
Recent Winston County hail days
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Posey Field Airport. 1 hail day has already been reported this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-01 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-06-29 | 1.25″ | 2 |
| 2023-06-14 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-07-12 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-06 | 1.50″ | 1 |
| 2018-03-19 | 1.75″ | 5 |
| 2017-03-27 | 1.50″ | 4 |
How to read the Winston County map
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.
Nearby counties
The nearest counties with a page of their own: Walker County (30 hail days), Lawrence County (25) and Marion County (27). Every one of them takes more hail than Winston County.
Walker County · Lawrence County · Marion County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Winston County, Alabama only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.