The most recent reported hail day was 2025-07-22, 374 days ago. Bay 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 2024-01-08 near Southport.
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 2025-07-22, around Vicksburg. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Bay 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 18 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. The busiest single year was 2016, with 3 hail 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 18 days on record passed it, 6%, the last on 2024-01-08. Those big days do not follow the county's usual calendar: most of them fall in January, not June. 5 of the 18 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 Southport -- 4 of the county's 18 hail days -- then Crystal Lake (4), Fountain (3), Lynn Haven (2) and Callaway (2). Beyond those, NOAA names Vicksburg on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Fountain | 3 | 1.75″ |
| 2 SW Southport | 2 | 2.00″ |
| 1 N Lynn Haven | 2 | 1.75″ |
| 1 S Crystal Lake | 2 | 1.00″ |
| Southport | 2 | 1.00″ |
The season runs February through June: 15 of the 18 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). June is the single busiest month, with 6 of them (33%). That peak closes the window: the season builds all the way to its worst month and then stops. Hail has also been reported in January and July, outside that window. Reports span 7 of the 12 calendar months; the other 5 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| February | 1 |
| March | 4 |
| April | 3 |
| May | 1 |
| June | 6 |
| July | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Vicksburg. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-22 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2025-06-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-05-09 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2024-01-08 | 2.00″ | 5 |
| 2023-04-27 | 1.75″ | 4 |
| 2022-04-17 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2021-06-15 | 1.75″ | 2 |
| 2021-04-08 | 1.50″ | 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: Walton County (15 hail days), Leon County (14), Santa Rosa County (17), Dale County, Alabama (13) and Covington County, Alabama (13). Bay County takes more hail than any of them.
Walton County · Leon County · Santa Rosa County · Dale County, Alabama · Covington County, Alabama
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Bay County, Florida only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.