The most recent reported hail day was 2025-05-25 -- 1 year ago, with nothing reported since. Duval County is hit in most years. The largest stone on record here is 2.75 inches, a baseball and 2.8 times the National Weather Service's 1 inch severe criterion, reported on 2017-05-31 near Jacksonville Beach.
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 2025-05-25, around Oceanway. A free SwathIQ account -- hand-reviewed, invite within 24-48h -- pulls Duval 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 30 separate hail days here since 2010 -- 1.8 a year over 17 years of record. Those days carry 60 separate reports between them, two or three on a typical one. 5 of those 17 years produced none at all. The busiest single year was 2012, with 5 hail days. The last five years have been quieter than the long run: 3 days since 2022, against 2.2 a year before that.
Most hail here stays under 2 inches: only 2 of the 30 days on record passed it, 7%, the last on 2020-08-04. They land in the same month as everything else, May. Golf-ball size is rarer still: 1.75 inches or more on 5 of the 30 days.
Across the whole of Florida, see the Florida hail map and history.
Reports cluster nearest Jacksonville Intl -- 5 of the county's 30 hail days -- then Arlington (5), Mandarin (5), Jacksonville Beach (3) and Normandy (3). Beyond those, NOAA names Downtown Jacksonv, Oceanway and Unf on more than one hail day apiece.
| Place | Hail days since 2010 | Largest stone |
|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville Beach | 2 | 2.75″ |
| 5 Se Jacksonville Intl | 2 | 1.75″ |
| Mandarin | 2 | 1.00″ |
| 3 W Normandy | 1 | 2.00″ |
| 1 Nw Normandy | 1 | 1.75″ |
The season runs April through August: 25 of the 30 hail days on record fall in those 5 months (83%). May is the single busiest month, with 9 of them (30%). That peak sits inside the window rather than at either end. Hail has also been reported in January, March and December, outside that window. Reports span 8 of the 12 calendar months; the other 4 have never produced one.
| Month | Hail days |
|---|---|
| January | 2 |
| March | 2 |
| April | 5 |
| May | 9 |
| June | 4 |
| July | 4 |
| August | 3 |
| December | 1 |
That day put 1 report on the map, the biggest 1 inch near Oceanway. No hail day has been reported here yet this year.
| Date | Max hail | Reports |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-25 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2023-04-27 | 1.00″ | 2 |
| 2023-04-26 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2020-08-04 | 2.00″ | 7 |
| 2020-05-21 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-07-19 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2019-04-06 | 1.00″ | 1 |
| 2018-07-22 | 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 2.75 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: Clay County (17 hail days), St. Johns County (17) and Flagler County (20). Duval County takes more hail than any of them.
Clay County · St. Johns County · Flagler County
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Data & method: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports + NOAA MRMS MESH radar, Duval County, Florida only. Radar-indicated and observation-based -- informational only, not a guarantee of damage or a valid claim.