The most recent reported hail day was 2025-04-11 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Alachua 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 2025-04-11 near Gainesville Airpo.
Colored swath = NOAA MRMS radar-estimated hail size; dots = NOAA SPC reports in Florida. Radar-indicated, not a guarantee of damage.
The last hail here fell on 2025-04-11, around Gainesville Airpo. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Alachua 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. They carry 28 reports in total: most hail days here are logged from a single spot. 8 of those 17 years produced none at all. One year dominates the record: 2011 alone produced 4 of the 16 days. The last five years track the long-run rate, with 4 days since 2022.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 1 of the 16 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2025-04-11. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in April, not June. 5 of the 16 days reached golf-ball size, 1.75 inches or bigger.
Across the whole of Florida, see the Florida hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Alachua -- 4 of the county's 16 hail days -- then Melrose (4), Gainesville (3), University of Flor (3) and Archer (2).
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Melrose | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 4 NNE Gainesville Airpo | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 2 WNW Gainesville | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 NW Gainesville | 1 | 1.75″ |
| 3 Sse Archer | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs February through June: 14 of the 16 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (88%). June is the single busiest month, with 4 of them (25%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in July and August, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| February | 2 |
| March | 3 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 2 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 1 |
| August | 1 |
That day put 5 reports on the map, the biggest 2 inches near Gainesville Airpo. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-11 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2024-02-04 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-05-11 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.75″ | 3 |
| 2021-02-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2015-06-01 | 1.75″ | 1 |
| 2014-08-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2014-06-09 | 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: Marion County (15 hail days), Clay County (17) and St. Johns County (17). Alachua County sits in between.
Marion County · Clay County · St. Johns County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Alachua County, Florida only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.